Elder Bai spoke up at this moment:
"Enough..."
"Stop with the sentimentality. There’s some danger here, and who knows when others might find us. We better head back first."
The ancestor of the Changyun Clan nodded in agreement, and then the two of them took Lin Jing back to the previous meteorite.
After returning, Lin Jing asked both of them:
"When I approached this place just now, you knew right away. Could it be that you have left some means of control here?"
Elder Bai then said:
"Indeed..."
"Hong and I obtained an Immortal Yuan here in the Land of Immortal Remnants, which was discovered by cultivators from both Cangyun and Jiulin realms."
"They mobilized a lot of people to encircle us, intending to snatch the Immortal Yuan, so naturally, we needed to be very careful."
"This meteorite, along with those seemingly inconspicuous small meteorite fragments around us, actually form a huge Formation. Inside here, we can also monitor all movements outside."
"All this is thanks to Hong’s methods."
"If not for these measures, we would probably have been discovered by them a long time ago."
Hearing this, Lin Jing couldn’t help feeling puzzled and then asked them:
"Didn’t I give you an Immortal Yuan earlier? Why did you still come to the Land of Immortal Remnants to find Immortal Yuan?"
"Could it be that in addition to Immortal Yuan, there’s something else in this land?"
As soon as Lin Jing finished speaking, the ancestor of the Changyun Clan spoke up:
"As a matter of fact..."
"The Immortal Yuan you gave us earlier, we used to offer to that Empress of the Demon Clan."
Lin Jing was startled after hearing this.
"Why would you do that?"
The ancestor of the Changyun Clan continued to explain:
"We wanted to break through the barriers of the Immortal Realm and check the internal situation of the Immortal Realm, and we needed the help of the Empress of the Demon Clan."
"When we sought her help, she made a request that we find her an Immortal Yuan, and then she would assist us."
"It just so happened that during my last visit to the Land of Immortal Remnants, I discovered an Immortal Yuan and figured out its appearance pattern, giving us a fair chance to obtain it."
"So, we directly gave her the Immortal Yuan you provided us, and then came here, to the Land of Immortal Remnants, to capture this Immortal Yuan."
"However, some accidents occurred while capturing the Immortal Yuan, and we were discovered by others from the Cangyun and Jiulin realms."
"Even though we successfully captured the Immortal Yuan, we were also encircled by people from the Cangyun and Jiulin realms in this Land of Immortal Remnants."
"Originally..."
"When your Tribulation caused that great commotion, we planned to break out during the chaos."
"But in previous encounters, they had marked us with some means, leaving imprints on us that we could not erase. With these marks, we couldn’t disguise ourselves and had to try to break out through the entrance forcibly."
"And at the exit of the Land of Immortal Remnants, their defenses were too tight. We tried many times, but ultimately we couldn’t escape."
"I see..."
Lin Jing immediately understood all the reasons after listening and also realized something.
That’s why previously, in that bizarre state, he could only detect eight Immortal Yuans; the last one was undetectable because it was in the hands of the Empress of the Demon Clan.
Now, the Immortal Yuan that the Empress of the Demon Clan had obtained, although it was acquired during his first Tribulation, goes without saying that it also originated from the Land of Immortal Remnants.
This fact, Lin Jing had already understood from the conversation he had overheard from Elder Qu of the Liuyue Dao Sect in the Cangyun Realm.
Elder Bai and the ancestor of the Changyun Clan had given away the Immortal Yuan they originally possessed to the Empress of the Demon Clan, but because of the Immortal Yuan, they fell into a perilous situation once more.
This caused Lin Jing to feel somewhat helpless.
He was also very curious about the Empress of the Demon Clan; why did she also need the Immortal Yuan? Could it be that she wanted to use the Immortal Yuan to refine an Ascension Pill as well?
And what exactly was her level of Cultivation?
Both from what Elder Bai and the ancestor of the Changyun Clan said, as well as the cultivator with the surname Li from the Cangyun Realm earlier, it seemed that they were all extremely certain of the Empress’s strength.
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As Lin Jing was deep in thought, Elder Bai first looked at Lin Jing and then turned his head and said to the ancestor of the Changyun Clan:
"Hong..."
"Although both of us have been marked by them, Lin lad does not have such marks."
"Perhaps we could find a way to send Lin lad out and then have him find someone to rescue us..."