Lu Xueqing had the second-highest realm here and quickly sensed that something was wrong. Extending her perception into the World Sea, she truly discovered shadows converging in their direction.
Those shadows emerged from all directions. They had not been hiding in one place, but lurking within the various bubbles of the World Sea.
Judging by this force, They did not seem to have hidden away to avoid the encirclement of that year. Rather, They seemed like reserve troops left behind for some kind of siege operation.
Though the thirty-three shadows came in every conceivable form, every one of them possessed Taboo-level strength. Two of them, measured by spatial standards, had attributes of roughly 343 points. They were absolutely not opponents ordinary Taboos could contend with.
Once deployed, this force could easily annihilate any one of the separate spaces from before. Even now that the five great spaces had merged, there were fewer than ten Taboo-level experts here.
And the direction those shadows were advancing in was unexpectedly toward this half-merged space.
What puzzled Lu Xueqing was why these shadows had chosen to attack precisely on the day Lu Li returned, neither earlier nor later.
Could it be that, in the eyes of the shadows' master, Lu Li was more important than the survival of the space itself?
"It was because I hid too well before."
Lu Li mocked himself. His state back then had been profoundly mysterious, as though he had merged with the World Sea itself. He had been everywhere and nowhere, so these shadows could not find where he was.
On the bright side, that state had helped him avoid much trouble, allowing him to peacefully comprehend the Great Dao without interruption. On the downside, because he had no awareness of the outside world, he had missed the