"Strange."
Si Chen murmured to himself.
Inside the Ascension Passage, he had clearly sensed the aura coming from the other end.
Its energy level had been extremely high, as different from the Lower Realm as heaven was from earth.
But now...
He closed his eyes and checked again.
The "spiritual energy" around him was so thin it was almost nonexistent. Forget comparing it to the Lower Realm-even some remote mountains in the Eastern Region were better than this place.
Still, that posed no problem for Si Chen.
The star origin source within him was the most vast and boundless wellspring of energy, inexhaustible.
Whether there was spiritual energy outside made no difference.
He cared more about another question: had he flown to the wrong place?
Or was... this so-called Immortal Realm...
Far larger and more complicated than the Lower Realm?
Si Chen set that thought aside for now. There was no use thinking about it yet. He would find the others first.
He closed his eyes and sensed the nine marks he had left earlier.
They were all still there, but their distances differed as greatly as heaven and earth.
The nearest was very close, to the southeast, roughly seventy or eighty thousand li away.
Si Chen was in no hurry to fly off.
First, he spread his divine sense.
A thousand zhang, ten thousand li, a hundred thousand li...
Soon, he "saw" the auras of many humans.
There were quite a few, scattered across the land in clusters of villages.
But something even stranger emerged...
Almost without exception, these humans had no cultivation.
Their bodies were empty, without even the most basic qi refining first layer cultivation, exactly like mortals.
The people of the Immortal Realm... had no cultivation?
Si Chen frowned.
His figure flickered, and he flew toward