This time, Li Yan had accompanied Elder Hao and the other for four years as they explored the region within the Dream-Returning Ant's head. They had been led by a cultivator in the Integration realm.
Otherwise, at Li Yan's flying speed, he felt that even forty years might not have been enough to cover the entire place. Many areas were simply beyond his reach.
The moment he approached them, he might have been killed countless times over by all manner of invisible, traceless, vicious aberrations.
In the end, they had roughly finished exploring the entire head. The reason it had taken so little time was that they had only flown through places they themselves could reach.
Once Elder Hao discovered that even entering an area was exceedingly difficult for him, or estimated that his chances of falling after entering were high, he would merely probe it briefly before swiftly taking the other two away.
Since they only probed and left, without needing to force their way through every dangerous region—and the more perilous a place was, the faster they left—it was only natural that their investigation had not been too slow.
They had also confirmed that there was currently only that one passage connecting this place to the outside world. In all other places, there was no need for Soul-Suppressing Palace to set up further measures; they were naturally lands of absolute death.
Afterward, Elder Hao and the others returned all the way to Soul-Suppressing Palace, but their hearts had grown even heavier. Over the past four years, they had likewise found no trace whatsoever of the former sect master and his group.
Elder Hao believed that if the former sect master and the others had passed through the throat area, then upon reaching some place where the road ahead