Xie Lingyu was instantly speechless. She wanted to fiercely refute Chu Xingchen's remarks, but felt that he did not seem to be wrong.
Most Secret Realms were actually tombs that powerful cultivators painstakingly prepared for themselves when they knew their deaths were approaching.
Before dying, these mighty cultivators still wanted their next incarnations, if the opportunity arose, to inherit everything they had accumulated in this life.
Most of these mighty cultivators suffered from worn-down souls rather than problems with their bodies. Simply seizing someone else's body could not solve that.
Thus, according to cultivation theory, resetting everything about the soul and restoring its wear would produce a brand-new soul.
Although everyone knew that starting over meant losing their memories, and that everything they left behind could very easily end up benefiting someone else.
But... everyone in this world believed themselves to be the one lucky exception-what did not work for others would work for them.
Naturally, they certainly did not build their tombs so that other sects could conduct joint archaeological digs and study what style of coffin lid they had.
So most of these Secret Realms were very well hidden, beneath rivers, beneath the sea, deep in the mountains, and so on.
They devised ingenious measures to protect their tombs.
Furthermore, the more remote the location, the better. Central Province was the worst, with the highest chance of an archaeological dig-the people there had the highest cultivation and the best Divine Sense.
Moreover, with high cultivation came more archaeological methods. Once discovered, a tomb would basically be excavated to the very end.
If discovered on other continents, its design might at least allow it to hold out for a while.
Chu Xingchen had little experience digging up graves. Li Xingtian probably had more experience in that regard.
But relying