The various legends were a mixture of truth and falsehood. No one could prove that the records they had seen or the accounts they had heard were genuine.
Aside from the very few true great powers recorded as personally seeking out the primordial space in pursuit of the immortal path, all other cultivators mentioned in such accounts had been rejected by the laws of heaven and earth.
Such cultivators had all encountered accidents. Ninety-nine percent of them went and never returned, while the scant few who did return left behind the records that spoke of it.
They said they had merely entered an endless void. After searching day after day, they had finally found the road back one day. Yet some among them claimed to have seen a long river...
So, when Li Yan later considered where he had been, the moment he thought of that long river, the "River to Heaven" flashed into his mind.
After another conversation with Mei Hongyu, Li Yan also learned that an accident had occurred during her ascension. The ascension node she had chosen had likewise contained an inexplicable, unknown power.
Li Yan thus believed that the azure-light space where he and Mei Hongyu had been should have been somewhere near that void river.
Especially after seeing those strikingly similar black-light vortices within the karst cave, he became even more certain of his judgment.
Thus, deep in his heart, he had already felt profound powerlessness at the time. If the River to Heaven truly lay outside the azure-light space, then who knew what year or month it would be before they could return?
Yet he had not mentioned any of this to Mei Hongyu. Saying it would only make her despair and would be of no help whatsoever.
Moreover, deep down, if such a