Li Ning was now in the Early Nascent Soul stage, long since no longer at the Foundation Establishment realm of old and no longer someone Qin Fengming needed to protect.
Qin Fengming did not know whether there were any other opportunities here, which was why he sent a voice transmission to the two women and let them act freely.
Sitting cross-legged atop a mountain peak, Qin Fengming closed his eyes, calmed his mind, and released his divine sense, merging it into the streams of energy surging around him.
In Li Ning and Bai Yi's eyes, although some of these energy streams could combine with one another to form shapes resembling writing, they were still worlds apart from true script.
Yet under Qin Fengming's perception, these seemingly powerless streams of energy were actually profound runes capable of transforming into all kinds of shapes.
It was precisely after sensing this state of the energy streams that Qin Fengming suddenly trembled and decided to enter seclusion here at once, carefully studying the deeper meaning contained within them.
Ke Xingxin and Fu Qiong, of course, soon discovered several such abnormalities among the mountain peaks as well.
Yet the two found it impossible to comprehend even the slightest bit of the Path of Runes, something only cultivators from the Upper Realm could dabble in.
Watching the streams of energy, each only as thick as a finger, continuously surge and gush around the mountain peaks, the two could not discern the slightest information hidden within them.
Whether they were Formation Grandmasters, Artifact Refining Grandmasters, or Talisman Grandmasters, Human Realm cultivators studied and explored talismanic incantations, which were even more profound than runes.
They were said to be more profound than runes because every talismanic incantation was formed from several runes arranged into a fixed combination.
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