After refining the Flying Sky Crown and the Heaven and Earth Bowl, Xu Qingtong cultivated in Dongliu City for another month, repaired his damaged divine soul, and quietly left the city.
He did not tell You Chen when he left, leaving behind only a jade slip and a jade pendant. Xu Qingtong recorded what he wanted to say in the jade slip. The jade pendant was the key to undoing the restriction on You Chen's divine soul. He only needed to crush it, and the brand on his divine soul would dissolve on its own.
By the time You Chen discovered the jade slip Xu Qingtong had left behind, Xu Qingtong was already ten thousand li away.
Wearing a bamboo hat, Xu Qingtong channeled his netherworld power and activated the Flying Sky Crown. His entire figure immediately vanished into the darkness, blending perfectly with his surroundings. Even a Body-Shaping Stage netherworld cultivator standing there would have been utterly unable to detect his presence.
According to the information You Chen had provided, Xu Qingtong would reach the collapsed node after traveling another five or six hundred li.
He dared not be careless. He activated the Flying Sky Crown at full power, concealing every trace of his aura as he slowly approached the node.
An hour later, Xu Qingtong arrived near the node and saw the pitch-black Spatial Passage in the distance.
Not far from the passage entrance, some forty or fifty low houses had been built in a haphazard jumble. People occasionally went in and out.
Those entering and leaving the rooms were mostly Fifth Tier or Sixth Tier Soul Forging Stage cultivators, with a few at the Body-Shaping Stage. As for what was inside the houses, Xu Qingtong did not dare send out his divine sense to investigate.
He carefully