After circling around, he had moved more than a hundred thousand kilometers away from the battlefield.
Jiang Ding casually chose a desolate grassland devoid of human habitation and went deep underground to use it as a temporary dwelling.
—This was mainly to guard against the possibility of a passing Deity Transformation Cultivator conducting a probe.
At the Nascent Soul stage, very few people should have been able to see through his concealment. Even walking face-to-face with them would have been no problem.
Just now, True Monarch Yinjiao's wild boasts had made Jiang Ding uneasy, so he raised his security alert level once more.
He sat cross-legged, taking out True Monarch Yinjiao's spirit soul, along with a metal talisman of a dim, shadowy hue, seemingly composed of countless tiny machines, its flowing light ever-shifting.
"It feels like I can directly inspect spirit soul memories. I'll give it a try. If there are signs of collapse, I'll withdraw."
After pondering briefly, Jiang Ding did not hesitate. He separated a thread of divine sense and sent it into True Monarch Yinjiao's Sea of Consciousness, examining it according to the principles of the Soul Searching Spell.
This sort of thing counted as an immortal cultivator's instinct. Every year, he spent a great deal of time reading documents in the Immortal Sect Library. He could use many minor spells and understand the principles of spells without needing to learn them.
Only the top-tier, difficult spells required his practice over long years.
His spirit soul entered it.
It went very smoothly. He encountered no Spirit Soul Restriction. Even when he accidentally touched the Great Sun Sword Sect's Inheritance Restriction, there was no reaction whatsoever.
Indeed, those Inheritance Restrictions even faintly showed a tendency to cooperate with Jiang Ding's soul search. He simply lacked the relevant Great