Within Dust Star Valley.
Golden divine essence surged around the pill cauldron like a tide. Bai Ye was wholly focused on controlling the pill fire, continuing to refine a Divine King-grade pill.
Suddenly, his brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.
A faint sense of being watched arose in his Sea of Consciousness. It was not merely one strand of Primordial Spirit power; several forces were passing through the void, attempting to deduce his whereabouts, traces, and Karma Thread.
"People from the upper echelons of the Heavenly Star Sacred Sect?"
Bai Ye's heart stirred, and he quickly understood.
When he had refined the first Divine King-grade pill, he had attracted the Upper Realm's Heavenly Path and destiny. The sect's Destiny Heavenly Pool must have reacted, so they had likely noticed the anomaly and wanted to uncover the source of the surging destiny.
However, he did not panic in the slightest.
The Sky-Shading Divine Mask at his brow silently activated. An invisible barrier instantly enveloped his entire body, concealing his true cultivation, aura, and even his Karma Thread.
The probing Primordial Spirit powers slammed into the barrier like mud oxen plunging into the sea, failing to stir even the slightest ripple, let alone deduce his existence.
"As expected of a Ninth-grade Divine King item, the Sky-Shading Divine Mask is really reliable."
Bai Ye secretly rejoiced, then withdrew his mind and ignored the probing from outside.
Alchemy was originally part of cultivation. He had not expected it to attract such attention, which left him somewhat helpless.
But things had already come to this. Rather than dwell on it, he might as well take the opportunity to refine more Divine King-grade pills and accumulate foundations for breaking through to the Divine King Realm in the future.
He refocused his attention on alchemy.
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