With Hu Buding's cultivation at the Peak Early Dao Realm and the experience he had amassed through countless battles, the moment a wind-and-thunder-like tearing sound rose behind him, Hu Buding immediately realized something was wrong.
Instinctively, Hu Buding activated the World Talisman controlling this incomplete Small World before him, intending to forcibly close the passage between the two realms that had just been opened.
But the speed of Wind Flash Dash, obtained from the Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl, was simply too fast.
Once activated, it could cross more than a dozen li in an instant.
In truth, at the very instant Hu Buding reacted, Ye Zhen had already darted into this incomplete Small World.
The moment Ye Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, his divine sense spread in every direction like mercury spilling across the ground.
Ye Zhen had no mind whatsoever to care what Hu Buding was doing. Since Hu Buding had imprisoned Chi Ling'er here, his foremost task was to find Chi Ling'er first.
Only after finding Chi Ling'er and safely sending her into the Mirage Dragon Pearl could Ye Zhen fight Hu Buding without restraint.
The instant his divine sense spread out, Ye Zhen suddenly discovered that Hu Buding was not attacking him. Instead, he shot off in another direction.
Ye Zhen's thoughts raced, and in an instant, he arrived at a possibility.
Whether Hu Buding, as the Fox Clan's Ninth Elder, was brimming with clever schemes was uncertain, but his intelligence and calculations were unquestionably exceptional.
Then this old fox, Hu Buding, had most likely already guessed the intruder Ye Zhen's intentions.
For him to have tracked Hu Buding so precisely and broken into this incomplete Small World, Hu Buding would surely conclude that this intruder had most likely come for Chi Ling'er, who was