Jiang Fan lowered his head and looked at Jiang Ming.
"Little girl, can you tell where that Demonic Beast aura is coming from?"
Jiang Ming's little face tightened as she sniffed around, then finally pointed in one direction.
"Brother, that smell seems to be coming from over there!"
"But it also seems a little different!"
"This smell is extremely mixed and impure, nowhere near as pure as the demonic qi that Mo Lou had back then!"
Jiang Fan looked in the direction Jiang Ming was pointing. Behind the main peak lay an area of jagged rocks and towering ancient trees, shrouded beneath the pale blue light curtain of the Sect-Guarding Grand Formation. Nothing about it appeared unusual.
But when he gathered his divine sense and focused it upon that area, he caught an extremely faint, intermittent fluctuation from within the mountain itself.
That fluctuation was extraordinarily well concealed, mixed within the Earth Vein spiritual qi of the mountain.
Had his divine soul not been far sharper than an ordinary person's, and had he not possessed the exceptionally clear resonance perception of the five Great Daos toward Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, he would likely have found it difficult to notice.
"Looks like the problem lies within that mountain!"
Taking Jiang Ming with him, he moved like a ghost, arriving beneath that cliff face after only a few flickers.
This place was far from the sect buildings, and green vines covered the cliff wall.
From afar, it looked like nothing more than an ordinary mountain.
Yet upon drawing extremely close, they could see an inconspicuous cave entrance beneath the cliff, buried beneath a jumble of rocks.
Jiang Fan pointed at the cave entrance.
"Is it here?"
Jiang Ming leaned closer to the entrance and sniffed, wrinkling her nose.
"The smell is