Divine Anomaly

"What?!"

Desolate Fox was suddenly startled.

Yet the power of being a Venerable still allowed him to calm down.

His visualization method guarded his sea of consciousness, and the aura around him swiftly settled.

Even though everything before him was pitch-black, cultivators had long ceased needing their eyes to observe. Divine consciousness could replace most of the five senses and six perceptions, and was even more powerful than the senses.

A chilly aura slipped into his sleeves like venomous snakes, its coldness seeping into his skin and making every hair stand on end.

Only when surging mana flowed through his limbs and bones—

Did its blazing heat drive away the cold.

If he had originally been standing amid bitter winter, he now felt as though he were stepping from spring into summer beneath a warm sun.

The protective astral aura unique to a Venerable was like a sandstorm formed from bedrock and stars, blocking all spiritual opportunities that did not belong to him or posed a threat to him. Bright ripples flickered without end.

Only one thought remained in Desolate Fox's heart: This is bad.

He had underestimated how much that person valued Xu Sanniang. More importantly, he had not sensed the aura of that cultivator suspected to be a Dao Child at all.

In other words, the other party might have been watching him from nearby from beginning to end.

Yet he had arrogantly believed everything was within his grasp.

He should have grown suspicious the moment he saw how composed Xu Sanniang was.

But he had not looked into it further.

Judging others by himself, he would not devote too much attention to a Golden Core True Person unless that person concerned his Dao Path. Otherwise, there was no way he would personally act.

His divine consciousness spread