Tracking (Part 1)

Assam stepped forward and quietly said something to the two guards at the gate.

Before long, he beckoned to Wei He, signaling him to come over.

Wei He walked closer and heard Assam rattling off a string of incomprehensible words.

Then the guard clad head to toe in black armor stared at Wei He, sizing him up for a while.

"Release your spirit energy and let them see," Assam reminded him from the side.

Wei He hurriedly released a thread of spiritual power, letting it float in the air before him.

He did not know what level the spiritual power he had accumulated over a century of cultivation was at. But that did not stop him from judging how strong the spiritual power of the two guards before him was.

It was very clear that Wei He could sense that the two gatekeepers possessed no weak spiritual power either.

Both of them were basically a little stronger than him.

Two masses of dense spirit energy surged and rolled endlessly within their bodies.

These distinct fluctuations were plain for Wei He to see even without using any special method to examine them.

As expected of a system specializing in spirit energy.

Then the gatekeeper nodded and said something to Assam.

"He says it's fine. Come with me!" Assam let out a breath of relief and pulled Wei He toward the entrance gate.

The two emerged from the passage, and the view before them suddenly opened up.

Beyond the passage lay an enormous square underground cavern.

The cavern walls were riddled with openings of every size.

People came and went from time to time, all wearing protective suits. White and bloated, they looked like maggots freshly crawled from a nest.

The lighting system was a huge white sphere hanging upside down from