He met Ai Jian's gaze.
After a brief silence, Chen Ying still shook his head.
"We weren't even born of the same mother. What does Chen Heng's life or death have to do with me, Chen Ying? Besides, the Earth Abyss is vast beyond measure. Not that I underestimate you, Brother Ai, but with your abilities, finding him would probably take two or three months just for the round trip..."
And there were countless Yin Spirits and ghosts within the Earth Abyss. Whether Chen Heng was alive or dead remained unknown.
If he went down only to find a corpse,
that would be wasted effort!
"You heard just now, too. In the coming days, several elders of the Huzhao Sect and I will use their sect's Magnetic Essence Golden Light Ball to invert the two forms of magnetic essence within the Earth Abyss, draw up the Turbid Tide, and shake the Earth Membrane. That will be a major undertaking."
Seeing that Ai Jian still seemed about to speak,
Chen Ying smiled faintly and said,
"Surely you don't think your paltry Cavern Mystery cultivation could let you survive beneath the Magnetic Essence Golden Light Ball? When the Turbid Tide rises and the Earth Membrane shakes, every living creature of flesh and blood will be slaughtered, with scarcely any chance of escape. You'd best not go looking for suffering."
The Magnetic Essence Golden Light Ball?
Ai Jian could not help starting in shock.
This was a Dao artifact belonging to the Huzhao Sect.
Several Dao Lords of the Huzhao Sect had expended considerable effort, gathering the magnetic essence of planetary cores throughout the cosmos beyond the heavens. Using this as the main ingredient, supplemented by forty-nine precious auxiliary materials including ten-thousand-year black iron, Gang-Baleful Qi, and the true forms of the five