Sound Valley

Sacred Pill City lay at the very center of the Pill Region, while Clear Moon City stood between the Pill Region and the Central State Central Region. The distance between them was quite considerable.

To reach Sacred Pill City, Ye Chen and the other had two possible routes. The first was to return to Ye City and take Ye City's Space Wormhole directly there.

However, since Ye Chen had already left the clan, he had no desire to turn back. Thus, they chose the second route: heading to Profound Heaven City in the Central Region.

Profound Heaven City lay in the southwest of the Central Region and was within the sphere of influence of Sound Valley, one of the Three Valleys.

The southwest of the Central Region held two Top Powers: Sound Valley and Burning Flame Valley. In the Original Work, Xiao Yan had set out from Tian Huang City in the southwest of the Central Region on his journey to the Pill Region. Along the way, he had also visited Burning Flame Valley and obtained the complete Heavenly Flame Three Profound Changes...

However, Profound Heaven City was still quite far from Tian Huang City. Moreover, the Space Wormhole in Profound Heaven City led directly to a city in the Pill Region called Pill City, which differed by only one word from Sacred Pill City, where the Pill Tower was located.

Naturally, a city that dared to bear such a name in the Pill Region was no simple place, for its owner was the most mysterious of the Pill Domain Five Great Families—the Dan Family!

Going from Pill City to Sacred Pill City meant Ye Chen was taking a huge detour, traveling two or three times farther than necessary. He was practically making trouble for himself.

Yet for Ye Chen, who had set out to gain experience and broaden his horizons, this route was just right!

Profound Heaven City was a medium-sized city, larger than Clear Moon City but smaller than Ye City. However, because it possessed a Space Wormhole that led directly to the Pill Region, it was exceptionally prosperous.

Unlike Clear Moon City and Ye City, Profound Heaven City was home to more than a dozen large and small factions. Among them, two great clans reigned supreme: the Song Family and the Lu Family...

These two clans were considered the strongest forces within Profound Heaven City.

However, neither clan had the qualifications to independently construct a long-distance teleportation point such as a Space Wormhole. Therefore, the Space Wormhole here belonged to neither of the two clans. Its owner was Sound Valley.

Although Sound Valley had received little attention in the Original Work, it was one of the Three Valleys alongside Ice River Valley and Burning Flame Valley, and it controlled many cities within its territory.

A city on the scale of Profound Heaven City could at most be considered middling among them. Yet due to its geographical location, it had become the site where Sound Valley had established a spatial teleportation point, allowing it to gradually develop.

With Hu Tian carrying them along this time, Ye Chen and the other traveled extremely quickly. In just a few days, they had gone from Clear Moon City to the outskirts of Profound Heaven City.

When the two could already see the massive city vaguely sprawled across a plain ahead of them from the sky, Ye Chen suddenly asked curiously, "Old Hu, how much do you know about Sound Valley?"

After hearing Ye Chen's question, Hu Tian thought for a moment before replying, "Sound Valley is an extremely mysterious force. Apart from its own territory, it almost never appears in Central State, and I have never heard of it having ties with any other faction. So, what I know is quite limited."

"However, I once happened to hear the old master mention that the Sound Valley Master might have some connection to the Dan Family. As for anything else, I do not know..."

A look of astonishment flashed across Ye Chen's face.

"Sound Valley is connected to the Dan Family?"

There seemed to have been no mention of anything like this in the Original Work...

But on second thought, that made sense. Sound Valley and the Dan Family had both merely been minor background factions in the Original Work. They were described as mysterious, but they had not truly played any important role.

But now that he had entered this world, it was a complete world to him. Anything could happen, and many things might no longer develop as they had in the Original Work. There was no need to make a fuss over everything.

"The Dan Family, Sound Valley... Heh, interesting..." Ye Chen muttered a few words under his breath before ceasing to care about it, because they had already arrived at Profound Heaven City.

As they approached the city, towering walls carrying an air of solemn severity appeared before them. Beneath the lofty gates, streams of people moved endlessly back and forth, filling the air with lively clamor.

The two entered the city without incident. Looking at the broad streets and the shops and buildings lining both sides, which seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance, especially the dense crowd filling the streets, their noisy voices merged into a tremendous wave of sound that spread outward before soaring into the skies.

"Profound Heaven City is truly bustling. It seems no less lively than Ye City of my Ye Family." Looking at the majestic city and its thriving crowds, Ye Chen could not help clicking his tongue in praise.

Hu Tian held a different view. "Young Master, a city's strength is not judged by such things. Although Profound Heaven City has plenty of people, it lacks powerful factions and high-grade resources. No matter how lively it is, it cannot rank among the notable cities of Central State!"

That was indeed true.

Although Profound Heaven City belonged to Sound Valley, given Sound Valley's usual style, it only cared about controlling the Space Wormhole and ignored everything else.

The two great clans within the city were not particularly strong either. They did not even possess a single Dou Zong Strong Person. The reason Profound Heaven City appeared so bustling was merely because those two clans were alchemist clans, whose strongest members were Sixth Grade Advanced alchemists, coupled with the many people who passed through here on their way to the Pill Region.

"Young Master, shall we set out for the Pill Region now?" Hu Tian asked.

Space Wormholes were generally not placed within cities, but out on the plains beyond them. Therefore, if they intended to leave, they did not need to enter the city at all and could simply head straight to the spatial teleportation point.

Ye Chen thought for a moment before saying, "Not yet. Let's rest and recover in the city first."

As he spoke, he glanced at Hu Tian and asked, "Old Hu, you have been at the Half-Step Dou Zong realm for several years now. Are you confident you can break through to Dou Zong in a short time?"

Hu Tian froze, somewhat unable to understand why his Young Clan Leader was asking this. Still, he answered honestly, "Although I have already touched that bottleneck, breaking through will still be very difficult. I cannot say how long it will take, but it definitely will not happen anytime soon!"

As he said this, Hu Tian felt somewhat melancholy.

Breaking through from Dou Emperor to Dou Zong was a qualitative transformation on the path of cultivation. At the Dou Zong realm, one began to touch the threshold of Space Power. It was not something that could be achieved merely by cultivating dou qi, so many people became trapped at this step, unable to break through even in their entire lives.

After frowning in thought for a long while, Ye Chen said gravely, "Then what if you had the Ye Family's Profound Yang Sect Breaking Pill to assist you?"

Ye Chen's words made Hu Tian's expression tremble. He then stared at him in disbelief.

"The Profound Yang Sect Breaking Pill? Wasn't that the medicinal pill the old master had personally refined for you to use when breaking through to Dou Zong?"