Chapter 1462 Difficulties of Returning to the Sect...
Having finished informing Feng Chen about the situation regarding the two new elders of the blacksmithing hall, he didn't spend much time looking through the rest of the sect before making his way back to his cultivation room.
Although the rest of the sect had also been developing well and the different profession halls were far from the only part of the sect that had grown stronger over the past few months, it wasn't to the degree that it warranted any special attention, as it was mostly just some elders and disciples who had broken through.
The only thing that did warrant some degree of attention being the servant quarters, that had at this point expanded to become the largest part of the Star Shattering Sect at this point in time, with there being far more members inside the servant quarters compared to the sect itself.
Though... It wasn't really that surprising, considering that most of the sect's daily management didn't specifically require a cultivator to take care of it and was mostly handled by the servant quarters of the sect at this point in time.
Of course, even though most of the members of the servant quarters weren't able to step onto the path of immortal cultivation, living inside the Shattered Star Peaks still brought a lot of benefits, as the rich spiritual qi present would easily allow an ordinary mortal to live upwards of 150 years with a far lower chance of becoming sick.
To accommodate this large number of servants working for the sect. A small valley close to the Seventh Star Peak inside the Shattered Star Peaks had already been transformed into a rather sizable city where most of the members of the servant quarters lived.
As for the problem of what would happen if this city became too small to accommodate the number of servants required to keep the sect operating normally? That was a problem Elder Song would have to handle when the time came, as continuing to expand it wouldn't be an option forever given the limited space of the Shattered Star Peaks. Nôv(el)B\\jnn
However, having stayed hidden away for months inside the small cave without leaving, he had not managed to make much progress in his cultivation over the months he had stayed hidden and had mostly used the time to fully stabilize his foundation in the Eighth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm.
The main problem was that as the time for the secret realm to close approached, he began to feel increasingly uneasy. Understanding that he would likely soon have to face the powerful cultivators from the different major powers who had control of the secret realm... And considering how he had just rushed inside and knocked their guards away, he had a feeling that he would most likely end up facing at least one Soul Ascension Realm cultivator after leaving the secret realm.
To solve this problem, he would definitely end up having to use one of the two remaining talismans from his master.
Even then... He would likely still have to flee from his life and have to hide while running while making his way back towards the sect. After all, he didn't feel like those different major powers of the neutral region would just let him escape like that. Especially considering that news of the source crystal being in his hands would most likely also reach them.
Though he could say he had already used it, he doubted that they would believe him considering how dangerous it was to use something like that inside the secret realm and the fact that no one would use it under normal circumstances unless facing a major bottleneck.
The two talismans he had left... Were really far too few to safely leave the neutral region if he tried to just rush straight back to the sect.
In the end, the safest option would be for him to reach the Ninth Stage of the Domain Lord Realm before the secret realm closed.
The main problem with this being that he would have to leave his hiding spot and search for an opportunity like the rest of the Domain Lord Realm cultivators currently inside the secret realm if he wanted to have any hope of that happening...