Meanwhile, within the five-thousand-mile radius of Lin Xuan's perception, more than a dozen figures halted in different directions.
All of them frowned and looked around.
They all had the feeling of being watched, yet with their senses, they could not discover where that gaze came from.
This made their hearts sink.
"Hehe... there really are quite a few people!"
"Yet they're all in the Nascent Core Realm. Looks like the blockade was tight; these... are merely fish that slipped through the net."
"Perfect. I'll slaughter you first!"
Lin Xuan was in no hurry to return to Divine Firmament. These people posed no threat to him at all.
The next moment, he shot toward one side. There were three people there, the closest to him within his perception.
From what he sensed, they consisted of two mid-stage Nascent Core Realm cultivators and one early-stage Nascent Core Realm cultivator.
Yet strangely, the pressure emanating from that early-stage Nascent Core Realm cultivator was several degrees more intense than that of the two mid-stage Nascent Core Realm cultivators.
This surprised Lin Xuan somewhat, but he quickly realized that the early-stage Nascent Core Realm cultivator was likely no ordinary Lower Three Grades Nascent Core cultivator, but a Middle Three Grades Nascent Core cultivator.
Perfect. Lin Xuan also wanted to see the gap between the Middle Three Grades and the Lower Three Grades.
"Young Master, that is..."
At the same time, the three people who had been racing through the sky in search suddenly stopped.
One of the mid-stage Nascent Core Realm cultivators raised a hand and pointed at the sky.
The young master he spoke of was the youth Lin Xuan had sensed, the one suspected to possess a Middle Three Grades Nascent Core.
The youth lifted his eyes, and a sharp gleam immediately flashed