Early morning, at the Song-Style Courtyard House.
Chen Lin stood in the center of the courtyard. Before him stood Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Qin Churan, Li Xiaoyue, Zhang Ruoxi, Chen Qianqian, and Yun Sheng, dressed in blue.
Seven women, each with a different bearing. With Chen Lin pouring resources into them regardless of cost and nourishing them through dual cultivation, aside from Chen Qianqian, who remained at late foundation establishment, the other five women had all fully stabilized their early core formation cultivation.
"The folded space has unfolded, and the world is thirty times larger than before." Chen Lin took out seven High-Grade Storage Bags. With a flick of his wrist, he sent one precisely into each woman's hands. "Keep these pills and Protective Talismans with you. It's time to see the new world."
Qin Chuxia tossed her rose-red hair, excitement filling her eyes. "I've been cooped up forever. Chen Lin, where are we going?"
"West." Chen Lin raised a hand and pointed toward the Primeval Mountain Range that had appeared out of nowhere beyond Yicheng's grand formation. "The spiritual energy fluctuations are strongest there, and there are more opportunities to be found."
He turned toward Yun Sheng, his tone leaving no room for argument. "Yun Sheng, you'll lead the team. Unless it's a matter of life and death, don't intervene. Let them taste combat."
Yun Sheng nodded and sheathed her sword. "Understood."
Chen Lin flicked a finger, and seven Purple-Gold Thunderbolts sank into their foreheads. "Go."
Seven streaks of sword light shot off the ground and soared into the sky.
Once they passed through the luminous membrane of the Sun-Covering Cloudmist Formation, the sight before them instantly overturned everything they thought they knew.
The familiar highway on Yicheng's distant outskirts had become a bottomless cliff. Across the chasm stretched