"In fact, I once met someone who escaped from an undersea vortex. He not only managed to get out, but also broke free from his master's control. It’s a pity, though—he was eventually captured by other native cultivators. We were locked up together just like we are now. He told me that beneath the vortex lies a mysterious ruin filled with ancient architecture and strange, powerful living beings. Many parts of the ruins were sealed off by bizarre, ancient restrictions, making them impossible to explore. Like you, he had just ascended to the Mountain and Sea Realm when he was captured. However, he told me that he didn't ascend step-by-step from the Kunyuan Realm, but was swallowed by a Chaos Leak and transported directly into the fifth level," Ju Hui said.
"That's true. Not all cultivators swallowed by a Chaos Leak end up in the Kunyuan Realm. Some land in other worlds. I’ve encountered a few like that myself. It seems there is no fixed pattern to where one ends up; it's entirely random," Lin Fei added with a slight nod.
Indeed, he had met more than one cultivator like Qing Tianxing who had been swallowed by a Chaos Leak and ended up somewhere other than the first level, the Kunyuan Realm. At first, Lin Fei had assumed Qing Tianxing’s situation was due to his unique nature as a life form. Later, however, he realized that even ordinary human cultivators sometimes bypassed the first level. As for why, neither Lin Fei nor Cang Kongkong knew.
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