Dark Ancestor Stone Array.
"A figure?" Lingbao Tianzun frowned and stared beneath the tree for a long while. "Where is there a figure?"
"You can't see it?"
Lin Qiye froze where he stood.
In his field of vision, beneath the bare branches, there indeed stood a person. Though the distance was too great for Lin Qiye to make out his features, he knew it was a man leaning against the trunk, gazing up at the stars filling the sky.
Lin Qiye described what he saw to Lingbao Tianzun. The latter frowned and pondered for a moment before finally speaking:
"Come. Let's get closer."
The two crossed the grassland beneath the night sky, approaching the bare trunk step by step. In Lingbao Tianzun's eyes, it remained completely empty, but in Lin Qiye's eyes, the figure gradually became clearer.
It was a man covered in black. He had no face, no clothes, not even any thickness, as though he were merely a shadow cast upon the tree trunk.
Yet after looking carefully beneath the tree, there was no figure there at all. So where had this shadow come from?
The shadow seemed to notice Lin Qiye and the others' arrival as well. It turned its head slightly, its pitch-black face staring at them. Since it had no features, Lin Qiye could not discern its expression, but he vaguely felt as though its body had shuddered.
"Lingbao of Great Xia from the future requests an audience with the Dark Ancestor. Please reveal yourself."
Standing beneath the tree, Lingbao Tianzun still could not see the shadow. He merely raised his hands in a respectful salute and spoke.
After his words fell, the shadow remained motionless. Judging by the direction its face was turned, it seemed to be watching Lin Qiye.
"No response..." Lingbao Tianzun