Zhong Ming knew nothing of the outsiders' shock, nor did he have the mind to care.
He merely spun his gaze wildly, trying to locate Shi Yun.
Shi Yun had become exceedingly adept at using water currents to obscure one's vision.
He might even have comprehended some unique ultimate techniques of his own.
This meant that with his eyes alone, Zhong Ming could not detect Shi Yun's trail, much less find anything unusual around him.
Fortunately, he possessed a detection spell.
"Ding-dong!"
With a thought from Zhong Ming, the sound of a water droplet rang out within his sea of consciousness.
"Buzz!"
As the droplet formed from spiritual power fell onto the Clear Sound Spring Stone, the gathered spiritual power immediately rippled outward in all directions.
The spreading spiritual power reflected the breaths and rhythms of all things around him into Zhong Ming's lake of the mind.
This time, Zhong Ming's senses reached ninety-nine meters—three times farther than before. This was the enhancement of the Water Flow Dao Rhyme.
He had always said that comprehending Dao Rhyme would cause his strength to soar. He had not been joking.
As a characteristic of the fifth realm, even the sixth realm, Dao Rhyme enhanced Zhong Ming in every aspect.
"Found you!"
That special vision allowed Zhong Ming to swiftly detect Shi Yun's trail.
What made Zhong Ming's pupils constrict was that Shi Yun was now only several meters away from him!
He actually crept to my side without a sound... Is this what a veteran soldier who walked out of life-and-death battles is like—
Zhong Ming was inwardly marveling, but Shi Yun caught that faint fluctuation in his aura.
Once he realized he had been exposed, Shi Yun no longer approached slowly. He abruptly launched a sneak attack.
"Boom!"
As the tail