Whatever was happening at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, the Demon Star Hongguang had spoken of had now entered seclusion.
Through the incident with Lin Yue, she had come to understand many things. She had finally realized that, in coming out this time, she had merely been running away.
Before entering seclusion, she had recounted most of what she had encountered at the Nightfall Cold Pool, mixing in some information she had obtained from Qin Ming.
She had also learned the origins of the Nightfall Cold Pool.
The Nightfall Cold Pool had once been part of the Azure Realm. For some unknown reason, however, a rift had been torn in it ten thousand years ago, allowing the Devil Race to descend. Their invasion had plunged the Azure Realm Continent into devastation, until all the cultivators rose against them. The cultivators drove the Devil Race into the Cold Pool Secret Realm, and a space formation master and a time formation master completely separated the Nightfall Cold Pool from the Azure Realm Continent, turning it into an independent space.
The Nightfall Cold Pool itself was also an enormous Composite Formation Arts, created by layering multiple formations together. Both the flow of time and the suppression of Cultivation Level were effects of those formations. But after completely sealing the Nightfall Cold Pool, those Formation Arts Artists had vanished.
Only a few fish that had slipped through the net remained in the Nightfall Cold Pool after that war, but with their Cultivation Level sealed, they dared not act rashly.
Recently, however, an ancestor from one of the sects had sensed that the formations in the Nightfall Cold Pool seemed to be starting to loosen. After all, it had been sealed ten thousand years ago. Once its formations shattered, it would reconnect with the Azure Mist