Cloud Crane True Lord also stepped forward then, his voice full of relief:
"Fortunately, the journey went smoothly."
He said this because teleporting here with four people forming the array was far less stable than doing so with five.
At the slightest mishap, they might have been teleported into some perilous Secret Realm in Outer Heaven.
Xu Taiping, meanwhile, swept his gaze around.
The area they stood in was clearly the ruins of a temple, surrounded by crumbling walls.
Behind Xu Taiping stood an enormous divine statue covered in moss.
An immense claw mark marred the damaged statue.
The claw marks alone were four or five feet thick, clearly not the work of an ordinary Demonic Beast.
Directly ahead of Xu Taiping lay an enormous collapsed gateway.
The gateway alone covered an area the size of a three-courtyard residence, showing just how magnificent this temple had once been.
Beyond that immense gateway was a Bamboo Grove.
But countless stalks in that Bamboo Grove were thicker than Xu Taiping.
Xu Taiping tried to peer through the gaps between the enormous bamboo stalks to see whether there was an exit from this bamboo sea, but he could see no end to it.
Cloud Crane True Lord now walked up to Xu Taiping and explained:
"This place is called the Green Bamboo Sea. Only after crossing it will we truly have entered Golden Court Prefecture's Inner Grotto-Heaven."
Xu Taiping first nodded, then took the opportunity to ask Cloud Crane True Lord:
"Senior Cloud Crane, which seniors remained in Golden Court Prefecture to guard that Demonic Beast?"
Cloud Crane True Lord gestured for Xu Taiping to continue toward the ruined temple's entrance as he answered:
"Four cultivators remained to stand guard within the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven."
"They are Qu Shuang, an elder of