They flew for a full half hour before Fairy Hongxia stopped before a vast depression stretching a hundred miles.
"This... this is your Cai family's ancestral hall? Where is it?" Xiao Hua asked in great astonishment. From the moment his divine sense had spotted this depression, he had found it strange. Not only had he swept it with divine sense, he had also released his Buddhist consciousness and searched it repeatedly, nearly inspecting the entire depression. Yet he detected neither fluctuations of magical power nor anything unusual.
"Of course it is here!" Fairy Hongxia said with a sweet smile. "This was originally a great lake, but now all the water is gone..."
"Then... can you still find the Cai Family Ancestral Hall?" Xiao Mao and Li Zongbao caught up as well and asked worriedly.
"Hehe, we are already at the doorstep. Naturally, I have a way!" Fairy Hongxia's face showed a trace of pride as she said to Xiao Hua, "Xiao Lang, is there anything unusual nearby?"
"No!" Xiao Hua shook his head. "There truly isn't a soul in sight!"
"That is good!" Fairy Hongxia said with a smile. "Xiao Lang, all of you retreat a little and watch me cast a spell to open the ancestral hall's gates!"
"Fine!" Xiao Hua and the others obediently retreated several zhang.
Who would have thought that Fairy Hongxia shook her head? "Further back!"
Xiao Hua was somewhat surprised. They retreated another several dozen zhang before finally stopping.
Just as Xiao Hua and the others came to a stop, a crisp sound rang out ahead. A Phoenix Dharma Body, crystal-clear and faintly glimmering with sapphire-blue radiance, emerged from Fairy Hongxia's body. The moment it appeared in midair, it spread its wings. Rings of light shimmered from those wings like the Phoenix's multicolored brocade