"Are you surprised?"
A calm voice sounded softly from outside the cave.
Qiongsongzi, Qiong Yangzi, Qiongkongzi, Qiongmingzi, Qiongchuanzi, and Qiongyuzi.
Smiling, the Six Elders of the Divine Firmament slowly approached the golden nascent soul, accompanied by a youth in blue robes.
Calling him a youth in blue robes was not quite accurate, however.
Lin Mo was already eighteen. He simply looked exceptionally young because he had reached Foundation Establishment so early.
Without probing him with divine sense, ordinary cultivators would likely find it hard to believe that someone so young had already reached the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment!
"You... your vitality is brimming, and your cultivation has fully recovered? No... impossible. Absolutely impossible!"
Inside the confinement formation, the golden nascent soul abruptly opened his eyes, an exceedingly rare look of shock crossing his face.
Inconceivable. Truly inconceivable!
About half a month ago, his cultivation had suddenly declined, dropping two layers in succession, from the seventh layer of Nascent Soul to the fifth.
While he was still gripped by panic and uncertainty, news had arrived of the collapse of the Divine Firmament Sect's mountain stronghold.
To outsiders, the Divine Firmament Sect and the Qiongxiao Sect were two great sects with no connection whatsoever. In truth, they shared the same roots and origins, with no real distinction between them.
A little thought made the answer clear: the Divine Firmament Sect must have lost its providence, and the Qiongxiao Sect had suffered the same effects, causing his cultivation to fall.
But what was happening now?
Although his nascent soul was trapped here, its connection to his physical body had not been severed.
As far as he could sense, his body was exactly as it had been before, still at the fifth layer of Nascent Soul. Yet the Six Elders of the Divine