Ji Yuan said nothing of it aloud, but his right hand within his sleeve had already clasped that special Golden-Red Feather. The same held true as before: at Ji Yuan's current level of cultivation, something like an illusion was basically impossible. Either he had been affected by someone else's Spells and Divine Abilities, or his intuition was real. Ji Yuan could not say he had never been affected by an Illusion Technique, but there had at least been no precedent for it, and the feeling had come from an external object. Therefore, what he had sensed just now had certainly been real.
The dragon host continued through the Wild Sea according to the original plan. Beneath the Wild Sea, life still flourished. Other than some fish and demon creatures casually swallowed by the dragons along the way, Ji Yuan could still sense countless schools of fish, either crawling along the seabed or fleeing in panic.
Five more days passed, and Ji Yuan once again sensed a change in the feather in his hand. It began to carry a faint, persistent heat. Yet after another ten days, this change gradually weakened, until it returned to its cold, unchanged state.
Ji Yuan did not immediately say anything. Instead, he continued exploring with the dragon host, following this enormous procession as it inspected the suspicious areas the dragons had repeatedly deliberated over. The fourth month, the fifth month, the sixth month...
By the end of that same year, the dragon clan had searched every suspicious area within the planned range. In terms of area alone, the scope even far exceeded the entire Eastern Land Cloud Continent.
Every so often, the dragon host would gather at a suitable location to discuss matters. In the meantime, Ji Yuan also witnessed many wondrous sights and strange