"There are two possibilities!"
Beside him, Tianwei chimed in, saying, "First, this world has never given rise to higher-order living beings!"
"For countless trillions upon trillions of years, there have been no living beings!"
"Or perhaps, even if some living beings evolved in the beginning, they were killed by the true poison here!"
He Pingsheng nodded.
He could imagine that possibility too.
"Second!" Empress Tianwei continued, "There are higher-order living beings here, perhaps even beings with profound cultivation!"
"But because we arrived, every last one of them has hidden away!"
"Hidden away?" He Pingsheng shook his head outright upon hearing this. "Impossible... hundreds of Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivators entered this place. One sweep of their divine sense would miss nothing!"
"What sort of living being could evade a Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivator's divine sense?"
If any living being could truly hide from a Mahayana Emperor Realm cultivator, its cultivation certainly would not be below the Mahayana Emperor Realm.
In that case, would it even need to hide?
"Well... that is hard to say!" Tianwei said. "There is no need to rush, Fellow Daoist He. I can help you!"
He Pingsheng immediately grew interested. "How?"
Tianwei said, "I have a divine ability that can see through other people's fortune!"
After saying this, she smiled. "Of course, I secretly used this divine ability to look at you before, Fellow Daoist He. I hope you won't take offense!"
He Pingsheng said, "It's only human nature. No harm done!"
"Good!" Tianwei said. "However, this divine ability of mine can only see the fortune of people within ten thousand li. It cannot reach any farther!"
"So we would need to search this region over and over. If things go smoothly, I estimate we could finish searching this place in thirty years at most!"
"When the