After Old Yang's deductions, everyone felt that the Shen Hai Palace must be behind a huge conspiracy.
They weren't aiming for dominance, but destruction.
Not the destruction of living beings, but it seemed like… Blue Star.
A heavy stone pressed down on everyone's hearts.
"Boss, what do we do?"
Zhao Lei, Gao Kai, and Jing Kaiyu were all from ordinary backgrounds.
Furthermore, the three of them had served in the military.
There was a heroic spirit ingrained in their bones.
"What do we do? We'll take it one step at a time. I haven't officially clashed with anyone from the Shen Hai Palace yet."
Chu Tian meant that he had no certainty.
Even Wei Du, who was at the Tian Yi realm, was being chased before, wasn't he?
However, without Wei Du, the people present would have been in danger.
Although the Old City Lord Wei Du was outmatched, that old fellow in purple wouldn't be able to harm him either.
It was just that they had too many people on their side.
The Old City Lord had to protect them while retreating.
Because the Old City Lord didn't know how many such experts the other party had.
Once he was entangled by that old fellow in purple.
And if the other party had reinforcements.
None of the people present would have survived.
Therefore, the Old City Lord brought everyone to follow Xiao Ming and flee to the Antarctic region.
They entered the sealed barrier, knowing that once they entered, they wouldn't be able to get out.
It was still a last resort.
At least it could save everyone's lives.
They all knew that Chu Tian would definitely return.
On the day Chu Tian returned, they would be able to leave the barrier again.
Their hope was not extinguished.
"According to the original plan, let's go to the nearest point first."
Chu Tian and the others made their final decision.
They didn't take the Shattered Star.
Those who could wear mechs put them on, and those who couldn't could almost all fly.
There was no need to hide their figures anymore.
The martial arts world should have already been exposed to ordinary people.
And the place they were going was a forest.
There was no need to pass through towns in the middle.
Chu Tian left the Shattered Star hovering above the Luo family's small world.
And activated the defense system.
Although he had said he would abandon this place before,
it was just to scare those people.
He didn't want to keep idle people.
He didn't like cowards.
Fortunately, in the end, no one refused to participate.
Otherwise, Chu Tian might have just thrown those people out.
As for letting them stay in the Luo family's small world,
Chu Tian wouldn't care about his own words.
The group flew through the air.
About half an hour later.
Chu Tian first felt the spiritual energy becoming more and more concentrated.
At the same time, the edge of his divine sense saw signs of human activity in the depths of the forest.
Continuing forward.
Not far away, a campsite appeared.
Soon, that massive spiritual energy sphere also entered Chu Tian's divine sense range.
The massive sphere was about seventy to eighty meters high.
It just hovered above the ground.
There were no support points beneath the sphere.
At the campsite, Chu Tian also saw those people from the Shen Hai Palace.
Suddenly, there was chaos in the campsite.
Chu Tian was also stunned.
Because he found that the group of Shen Hai Palace people rushed out of the tents and looked in the direction of Chu Tian and the others.
Then, they all took to the sky.
"Prepare for battle, they've found me!"
Chu Tian suddenly stopped. He knew that the other party must have something that could prevent divine soul probing.
Or some kind of alarm.
This was the first time his divine sense had been detected after so long.
"This is our first battle. Let's probe their strength first. Xiao Hei, Old City Lord, Old Yang, Little Dragon Girl, Old Li, and I will be the reserve force."
Chu Tian made a simple allocation.
"Okay! Brothers, let's go meet these bastards. They're the ones who made the old man chase us back then."
Zhao Lei was the one who spoke. He wasn't wearing a mech.
Chu Tian didn't have time to ask him about it.
"Damn it, these little punks aren't that strong. I killed one before," Ma Deju shouted.
The formation instantly shifted, and the group behind Chu Tian became the vanguard.
Chu Tian and Old Yang followed closely behind.
He knew that perceived protection couldn't allow others to grow.
Ultimately, they had to rely on themselves to become stronger.
As they moved forward, the other party was already visible to the naked eye.
However, at this moment, Chu Tian's divine sense moved, and his eyes flashed.
His body suddenly changed direction.
"Old City Lord, I'll leave this to you!"
As Chu Tian spoke, he had already accelerated, shooting out for thousands of meters.
"What did this kid go for? He left us behind again!" Old Yang pouted.
"He must have discovered something. Let him be," Wei Du didn't react much, only saying, "The battle here isn't suitable for him."
"Pay attention, the other party also has experts. Be ready to make a move at any time to prevent any mishaps," Little Dragon Girl, her whole body shimmering with green light.
...
On Chu Tian's side, just now he suddenly spotted a familiar figure.
This figure was none other than the Taoist nun he had met half a year ago when he returned to Shengjing City to pick up Xi Xi.
Just now, at the edge of his divine sense, the figure of the Taoist nun flashed by.
It immediately reminded him of that little girl, Xi Xi.
She hadn't left with him back then and hadn't reached the villa.
In the surveillance footage, she appeared in the villa with the Taoist nun.
Later, she fled to the Antarctic region with Gao Kai and the others.
When Chu Tian arrived in the Antarctic region and found them,
he did not see that Taoist nun.
He couldn't possibly watch all eighteen months of videos, so he naturally didn't know when she left.
So he didn't ask anything.
Also, he hadn't seen Xi Xi's paralyzed father.
Now, seeing the Taoist nun here,
Chu Tian was naturally curious, and she was also very strange.
He remembered very clearly that the last time he saw the Taoist nun, she was exuding a vast and righteous aura.
It was a kind of extremely righteous aura.
But at this moment, Chu Tian felt a very mixed aura from this Taoist nun.
Completely opposite to the righteous aura, it was full of negative energy.
Chu Tian was very fast. He only slowed down when he was a thousand meters away from the Taoist nun.
His speed matched hers, but he kept chasing behind her.
The Taoist nun moved through the forest, turning and winding, as if avoiding something.
"What is she doing? She's been going in circles here for more than ten times!"
Chu Tian was curious, because in his divine sense, he could clearly see the Taoist nun circling.
And each time she took a different path.
After circling for more than an hour, the Taoist nun found a direction and suddenly increased her speed.
"Holy cow… so fast?"
Chu Tian was stunned, because at this moment, the Taoist nun's speed was like a shooting arrow.
The aura emanating from her also surged significantly.
"This woman is hiding her strength…"
Chu Tian quickly sped up. In just that moment, she had already traveled ten thousand meters.
However, running was running.
No matter how fast, she couldn't be faster than flying.
Another half an hour passed, and she gradually slowed down.
She arrived at a large riverbank.
She turned back to check and confirmed that no one was following her.
With a leap, she jumped into the lake.
Chu Tian knew that the Taoist nun had been circling earlier to confuse any observers.
If someone was tracking her, they would definitely reveal themselves during her circling.
"Where is she going?"
Chu Tian's divine sense entered the water, only to find that she wasn't trying to escape through the water.
Instead, she was continuously diving downwards.
This seemingly small body of water had a hidden world beneath it.
The depth was irrelevant; strangely, at a depth of a hundred meters underwater, his divine sense became ineffective.
He could no longer probe further…
He could only see a vague outline.
He dared not concentrate his consciousness to attack that layer of defense.
Even when tracking the Taoist nun earlier, he was only monitoring her faintly.
After the incident at the campsite, Chu Tian knew that there must be something in this world that could counter divine souls, or at least detect them.
Otherwise, divine soul users would truly become gods.
The Taoist nun quickly descended a hundred meters, entering the area protected from divine soul probing.
Chu Tian hesitated for a moment, and then finally leaped into the water as well.
"Travel form… Seal!"
Swish…
After entering the water, Chu Tian activated his form.
Instantly, underwater, he was like a fish.
His speed was many times faster than the woman's.
The water was dark, but Chu Tian wasn't afraid of her seeing him with her naked eyes.
As long as he maintained a distance, he would be fine. However, he wondered if he could pass through that hidden barrier.
If it required a special method to pass, it was possible he would be denied entry.
Soon, he reached a depth of a hundred meters.
Here, it was pitch black.
Chu Tian wasn't afraid of this, because he wasn't a normal person.
Activating his Seal form, underwater, he could not only breathe but also possessed underwater vision, seeing clearly even in complete darkness.
Upon closer inspection, one would notice a thin film covering Chu Tian's pupils.
Faintly, it shimmered with a blue light.
When Chu Tian reached the location, he first extended his finger and lightly touched the barrier-like object.
To his surprise, his finger passed through it with ease.
"Hmm? Is it just a water barrier?"
Seeing this, Chu Tian moved his body and passed through the barrier.
Entering it, he found himself in a waterless area.
Just like Whale Fall City, it had sealed off the water.
Here, Chu Tian's brows flickered.
What greeted his eyes… were scattered skeletons all over the ground.
Most of them were fish bones.
However, there were also quite a few human remains.
"What is this place?"
This place was too strange.
The Taoist nun had disappeared, and he didn't know where she had gone.
This waterless area wasn't very large, perhaps only a thousand meters.
It was visible at a glance.
There were no uneven areas to hide his figure or block his sight.
However, the inability to use divine sense here was quite frustrating.
Chu Tian was truly annoyed; divine sense was such a pain.
It always failed at crucial moments.
Why were there so many places where it couldn't be used?
Everyone said divine soul users were strong, but he didn't feel it.
At this moment, he felt his divine soul was utterly useless.
Chu Tian looked around for a few moments.
He found nothing.
But the Taoist nun couldn't have just disappeared for no reason.
Thinking of this, Chu Tian walked forward.
Not far, Chu Tian stopped.
Because he finally knew where the Taoist nun had gone!
The ground underwater was covered in black mud.
So Chu Tian hadn't noticed that not far in front of him,
there was a large black hole.
From a distance, the hole was the same color as the ground.
Perhaps it was a visual illusion that made him not notice it at first.
Arriving at the edge of the cave.
Chu Tian looked down.
At the same time, his brow furrowed slightly.
"Another hole!"
At the South Pole, that bottomless pit had given Chu Tian psychological trauma.
After falling for three consecutive days,
Chu Tian felt that he should have fallen outside of Earth.
But when he left,
that old Qilin said something inexplicable to Chu Tian.
He said that the cave was the true ancestral land.
The first human was born there!
However, before Chu Tian could ask further,
the old Qilin waved his hand, and in the blink of an eye, they were already flying out of the cave entrance.
They had fallen for three days.
It took less than a second to come up.
Chu Tian suspected.
Whether the old Qilin wanted them to spend less time going down as well?
He felt like he had been tricked.
But this large hole in front of him was different from that well opening.
This hole, like the gaping maw of an abyss, occupied almost the entire waterless area.
Furthermore, around the hole,
there were wooden ladders resembling steps.
Chu Tian thought for a moment.
Finally, he chose to jump down.
His feet landed on the dilapidated wooden ladder.
He squatted down and looked carefully.
He found that this wood was also quite old.
It hadn't been built recently.
Looking closely.
It resembled the mining caves he had seen on television before.
These wooden stairs.
Were built spirally along the circumference of the hole.
Going down endlessly.
"Since I'm here, let's go take a look later, otherwise it would have been a wasted trip for so long!"
"I wonder what the Taoist nun is doing here! She was so mysterious before!"
Chu Tian walked to the edge of the wooden ladder.
He reached out his hand to feel it.
He found a slight gravitational pull coming from below.
"Anti-flight… I knew it wouldn't be that simple!"
He pouted and could only obediently walk down the ladder.
There was a spatial confinement field here.
If Chu Tian rashly took to the air,
he might be directly pressed to the very bottom.
He didn't know how deep it was?
What if he fell to his death, it would be more loss than gain.
Without divine sense, and unable to fly.
He also dared not run too fast.
Because yesterday he was afraid of catching up to the Taoist nun.
It wasn't that he was afraid of what would happen if he met her.
He was afraid that the Taoist nun had some method of communication.
What if she came here to meet someone?
And that person ran away?
Because Chu Tian always felt that the appearance of this Taoist nun was somewhat strange.
Going all the way down.
The space here became increasingly smaller.
This hole seemed like an inverted tower.
It was as if someone had moved a pagoda and inserted it into the mud.
Soon, Chu Tian saw something different.
This further confirmed his thoughts.
He had just passed a reversed Buddha statue.
The Buddha statue's head was facing down.
The Buddha statue was inside the wall.
This was the existence enshrined within the Buddhist pagoda.
It seemed that it wasn't just a pagoda, but a Buddhist pagoda.
"Why would there be a Buddhist pagoda here? And inserted upside down at the bottom of the water, with someone creating a waterless barrier?"
All of this was somewhat strange.
Chu Tian became even more curious.
However, the Taoist nun and the Buddhist pagoda.
There was some connection.
Finally, after 20 minutes.
At the end of the staircase.
There was a large斷層 (fault/cliff).
"This should be the next level… hmm… more precisely, the entrance to the upper level, right?"
If this Buddhist pagoda were to stand upright,
what Chu Tian had just walked through would be the bottommost and largest level of the Buddhist pagoda.
It would get narrower as it went down.
Chu Tian passed through the entrance.
Upon reaching this level, indeed, many things were much more intact than the previous level.
Even the ceiling… or rather, the floor.
Was very intact.
Creak, creak, creak…
Just then, the sound of mechanisms could be heard.
Chu Tian looked in the direction of the sound, his eyes flashing.
"The mechanisms of this Buddhist pagoda are still operating?"
In the distance, he saw the figure of the Taoist nun!