As for the second reason, it was that Marquis Heaven Origin had never paid much attention to ordinary mortals in the first place. As everyone knew, many cultivators practiced hidden Qi-Concealment Techniques. Though clearly high-level cultivators, they could use such divine abilities to conceal several realms out of thin air, making others mistake them for tiny shrimp so they could fish in troubled waters.
There was nothing strange about that.
However, no matter how formidable a concealment divine ability was, there was always a limit.
The more cultivation one concealed, the harder it became; in other words, the easier it was to be exposed.
For example, if someone at Tribulation Transcendence—no, even a cultivator at the Spirit Division level—wanted to pretend to be a little Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, wouldn't that be asking for trouble?
The vast spiritual power inside the body was not something one could hide wherever one pleased.
Suppressing too many realms simply could not produce a good effect. On the contrary, it might backfire through trying to be clever. So even with the mysterious profundity of Lin Xuan's cultivation and the many Qi Concealment Techniques he knew, normally, he would at most pretend to be a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
For that Little Fellow to have fled all the way to such a distant place, Marquis Heaven Origin guessed that, nine times out of ten, he was above the Spirit Division level.
Otherwise, his escape technique would not have been so fast.
An existence with such cultivation, even if he used a Qi Concealment Technique, could at most disguise himself as Lihe; at the very most, Nascent Soul would already be extraordinary. Thus, his target was in fact mostly focused on high-level cultivators. Low-level cultivators were merely swept over in passing. As for mortals, first, there