How could a strange heartbeat suddenly appear within a space?
There was only one explanation: this person had long since hidden in this space, concealing his tracks with an exceptionally profound breath-concealing technique, hiding here like a lifeless stone.
Even someone with extraordinary spiritual perception like Jiang Dali would assume this "stone" had always belonged there, subconsciously overlooking it.
Yet a person was still a person. Possessing life, thoughts, and consciousness, he could not truly be like a stone without the slightest fluctuation of awareness or vitality.
The moment his consciousness or life force showed the slightest abnormality, it was like a pebble falling into water. No matter how faint the disturbance, it would stir ripples and alarm the person in the water.
The instant Jiang Dali detected the hidden person and unleashed Thousand Mile Soul Lock, everything in the invisible space around him became bright and clear, while his world of hearing also grew richer, filled with many faint sounds he had previously overlooked.
His spiritual perception immediately locked onto a brown-clad man hiding in a tree seventy zhang away.
In an instant, his immensely powerful primordial spirit perception grasped the other party's mental state, temperature changes, breathing, blood flow, and more. He knew the man had also realized he had been exposed and was about to flee for his life.
Sure enough, sensing something was wrong, the man moved without hesitation and prepared to burst away.
But within Jiang Dali's perception, this reaction was already far too slow. The power of his primordial spirit erupted from his eyes almost instantly.
Mind Cage!
Whoosh!—
The Thief King's heart was filled with extreme tension and terror. With a flash of his body, he swiftly leaped away from the dense foliage where he had been hiding and unleashed his extraordinary lightness