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But this last resort, fraught with major uncertainties, offered little hope for a successful re-cultivation in the future.
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Within the Hall of Human Heart.
After establishing a mental connection with Qiu Feng, Chen Dengming was exceedingly surprised.
"Sect Leader Qiu actually doesn't even know where he is now?"
No wonder after so many years, the sect dispatched search parties of cultivators seven or eight times, but they were never able to find the whereabouts of Qiu Feng and Cheng Zhenwei and others.
They could only find traces nearby the secret pathway that seemed to indicate a past battle.
But it was also impossible to determine whether it was Qiu Feng and others who had clashed with someone, or if it was a result of the wars that erupted in the Four Regions.
In any case, these groups that went to explore the secret pathways years ago, seemed to have evaporated from the mortal world.
