Luo Zheng flew at the head of the group. As he neared the lakeshore, he spread out his divine sense.
As a means of investigation, divine sense could easily map out distant objects. Even things hidden underground could not escape it.
Yet just as Luo Zheng swept his divine sense over the terrain along the lakeshore, a strange symbol suddenly appeared in his mind.
It was a circle with ten animal teeth hanging around its edge!
Click!
The circle abruptly rotated, and the animal teeth began to flash. Luo Zheng instantly felt a violent stab of pain in his mind, so intense that he almost groaned aloud.
Nuwa, Fuxi, the Eastern Emperor, and the three Immortal Hunters had extended their divine sense just as Luo Zheng had. They, too, saw the circular symbol and felt that same violent stab of pain.
"Ugh..."
"What is that? It hurts so much!"
"Something is affecting our divine sense..."
After recovering, Luo Zheng exchanged bewildered looks with Nuwa, Fuxi, and the others.
"What did you detect with your divine sense?" Nuwa asked.
"A ring inlaid with ten teeth," Blood Wolf answered succinctly.
"I saw it too! Squeak, squeak!" the Heaven Defying Rat King cried.
Fuxi looked toward the nearby lakeshore, wariness showing on his face.
Normally, divine sense could travel unhindered. Certain unusual objects could block it, so when the divine sense struck them and bounced back, it could only reveal a flat surface.
Other, more formidable things could devour divine sense, causing it to vanish without a trace like a clay ox sinking into the sea...
This time, their divine sense had neither rebounded nor disappeared after sweeping the area, yet the image it revealed was that ring inlaid with teeth.
That was exceedingly strange, as though someone were deliberately showing them this