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Among the mountains, a lone figure glided low through the air, maintaining a steady pace. A jade token rested in Luo Chen's hand, and from time to time, he sent out faint pulses of spirit consciousness to search for Wang Yuan.
He had gradually come to understand just how convoluted and treacherous the terrain of the ninth mountain truly was. On the surface, it appeared lush and pristine, a place of natural beauty. Yet strangely, there were hardly any demonic beasts or wild creatures to be found.
He suspected it had to do with the thunderstorms. In only a few days since entering the mountain, he had already encountered two such storms. Though small in scale, the power of their lightning strikes posed a genuine threat even to Initiates. Luo Chen considered his physique strong, but even so, he had no intention of challenging the raw fury of natural lightning.
If that had been the only danger the ninth mountain held, he could have endured it. Unfortunately, the real threat lay elsewhere. The moment he stepped into the ninth mountain, he discovered that his spirit consciousness was being heavily suppressed.
With his formidable divine soul foundation, he could typically project his spirit consciousness over two dozen li with ease. Here, that range was crippled; he could barely sense things seven or eight li away, if that. Even the sound-transmission jade token, which normally functioned across a thousand li, had its range cut down to just three hundred or so! That was why, despite being in the mountains for some time, he had yet to find Wang Yuan.
Still, it wasn't as though he'd gained nothing.
Luo Chen was highly proficient in Cleanse; he was able to purge all foreign energies. Not only could he purge foreign energies with ease, but years of honing that skill had also left him acutely sensitive to the subtlest fluctuations of energy flows. And at several sites stained with blood, he caught the faint, lingering traces of Wang Yuan's energy flows, and he had been tracking those traces continuously. But after circling...
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