Qin He concealed himself where light and shadow crossed, leaving only a few faint, fiery-red ripples in the air around him. Unless someone focused intently, even a saint-tier cultivator would mistake them for lingering disturbances from Flamewind Valley's restless earth veins.
Following his memory of the star core's location, he slipped silently into the Crystal World.
The crystals beneath his feet still glowed red with residual heat. Brushing his fingertips over them, he could feel traces of the stellar fire law, but the dazzling flowing flame that had made his heart tremble, the star core that embodied its origin, had vanished without a trace.
There was no lingering aura, no fluctuation of laws, as though the earlier world-shattering siege had been nothing more than an illusion.
Qin He stood still, gold-black patterns slowly circulating in the depths of his eyes. His divine sense spread like an invisible net, blanketing the entire Crystal World.
His divine sense could penetrate a thousand zhang of rock, yet no matter how he searched, he found no trace of the strange flame. Only deep within the crystals lay a barely perceptible disturbance in the space law, so faint that the killing intent of the earth veins nearly obscured it.
"It didn't disappear. It was hidden."
Qin He considered this silently, condensing a thread of Gold-Black Law at his fingertip and gently touching it to the crystals beneath him.
The instant the law seeped in, the crystals trembled faintly. Fleeting spatial fissures actually began to appear within those crystals refined by starfall flame.
He lingered no longer. With a flicker, he became an invisible wind and swept out of the Crystal World, heading straight for a point a hundred li away.
Stopping behind a concealed volcanic rock, Qin He formed a hand seal. Gold-Black Law surged