Meanwhile.
Several miles from Black Stone Valley.
Atop a barren mountain.
"How strange!"
"Why can't I detect any powerful cultivators stationed there? Could the experts behind the Lingxiao Business Alliance have left? Or are their methods of evading detection so formidable that I can't find them?"
"And wasn't that Spirit Chef, Yan Siyi, rumored to have reached Spirit Transformation Full Completion? Why is she still at Spirit Transformation Late Stage?"
The cultivator at Void Refinement Early Stage repeatedly used a detection technique to probe Black Stone Valley and found that something was amiss.
Just as Ling Pengyun had guessed, he was the Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch of the Primordial Unity Lineage.
His cultivation was high, so although he was nearly ten thousand years old, only a few strands of his hair had turned white. His vitality remained excellent; he could probably live several thousand years more.
He had an ordinary face, but his skin was fair and tender, his build somewhat plump, and his bearing distinctive. Dressed in a golden Daoist robe, he looked rather like a wealthy gentleman from the mortal world.
Though his cultivation was high and he possessed a decent detection technique, his mastery of it was unremarkable.
For the moment, he failed to detect Ling Pengyun. He found only Yan Siyi and the other ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivators.
He even discerned Yan Siyi's true cultivation.
Moreover, he knew that the three Spirit Transformation Full Completion assassins from Shadow Building really had come to Black Stone Valley to cause trouble and been killed.
All this gave him a pounding headache.
After all, both Black Stone Valley and Primordial Unity Immortal City, where the Lingxiao Business Alliance was based, lay within his territory.
For an alliance with such a mysterious background to appear there out of nowhere was