After hearing Xiao Yan's words, everyone immediately turned their eyes to Huo Lian and Zhao Yunhui.
"Actually, if everyone calms down and thinks it over carefully, this outcome isn't all that surprising, is it?" Huo Lian said.
"This isn't all that surprising?" Baili Zhen asked, his eyes wide. "Could anything be more surprising? The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in that place was even worse than in the Desolate Domain, wasn't it? Oh, only now, after absorbing so much spiritual energy of heaven and earth, is it about on par with the Desolate Domain. Jiang Hengdao went to all that trouble just to go there? This has to be a joke!"
Baili Zhen's words also voiced everyone else's doubts.
"Didn't Huang Xiao mention a possibility earlier?" Huo Lian said with a light chuckle. "Why was that enormous hole frantically absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth? And at the time, we also discovered that the vast majority of that spiritual energy wasn't being consumed, but absorbed. So the other side could very well be a place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is extremely scarce."
Huo Lian's reminder brought everyone back to their senses. There really had been such a thing.
Back then, they had speculated about the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surging toward the sky.
When Huang Xiao had offered that conjecture, they had actually dismissed it inwardly. After all, it had seemed rather too far-fetched.
Even when this scene truly appeared before their eyes, they still found it somewhat hard to accept at first.
"It seems Huang Xiao was right," Ao Zhen said with deep feeling. "In other words, Jiang Hengdao exhausted every means and spent tens of thousands of years scheming, only to end up drawing water with a bamboo basket-all