After realizing what a staggering thing his teacher had done, Li Qi almost immediately chose to contact him.
Fortunately, contact between third-rank beings did not require him to return in person. He could work in the Desire Realm while contacting him.
All he needed to do was follow the thread of causality and lightly touch the other party—
Touch...
The other party.
Wait, there was no response.
He had indeed found Zhu Fengdan, just as before.
Back when Li Qi had been fourth-rank or even fifth-rank, he had been able to follow threads of causality to find people. This was one of his third-rank traits, and he had even found certain third-rank beings before, recklessly trying to touch them. (See Chapter 618 for details.)
To Li Qi back then, they had been "monsters," indescribable colossal beasts. It had actually been extremely dangerous. If they had not carefully brushed him away, he would probably have died the instant he touched them.
But now, he could contact such colossal beasts—and he was even one of them.
He had already become a gigantic gravitational source pulling at all things. His every move now carried weight within this universe. He was no longer the ant that had once followed a spiderweb to touch a monster.
Under such circumstances, Li Qi should have been highly conspicuous. It was absolutely impossible for Zhu Fengdan not to notice him.
Then what exactly was going on?
Li Qi immediately withdrew the power driving the Desire Realm, gathering all his thoughts and computational power, drawing in his Dharma body and condensing his strength. The next moment, he vanished from where he stood and returned to Wushen Mountain.
Inside Zhu Fengdan's cave residence on Wushen Mountain, a corpse suddenly opened its eyes.
"Ah, I never expected there would come a