Chen Xuan listened without committing himself. His master, Gu Chenxiao, had instructed him to avoid relying on external aids as much as possible. At the very least, when Chen Xuan reached the Foundation Establishment Stage again, he would never consume those so-called Foundation Establishment Pills.
For the rest of the journey, Chen Xuan chatted with the five loose cultivators, learning a great deal of basic common knowledge about the Mountain and Sea Realm and cultivation through them. Chen Xuan’s responses were airtight, and the five loose cultivators eventually pegged him as nothing more than a minor loose cultivator who had emerged from some remote, impoverished corner of the world. As for the Xuanyuan Sword on Chen Xuan’s back, it was wrapped in black cloth, so the five took it for an ordinary long sword and did not ask further questions.
Traveling south in this manner, it took seven days and nearly ten thousand miles before the six of them finally emerged from the Tianjue Mountain Range. They arrived at the Lieyun Valley, an endless expanse with cliffs at least five or six thousand miles wide on either side. It was here that Chen Xuan finally realized the vastness of the Mountain and Sea Realm; the immense mountain range between the Tianjue Mountains and the Lieyun Valley spanned ten thousand miles, yet in the context of the entire Mountain and Sea Realm, it was merely a tiny corner.
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