"Hello. I'm communicating with you through Mental Power."
The old man was startled when he suddenly received Mo Qiong's communication. Almost instinctively, he annihilated Mo Qiong's Mental Power.
Only after annihilating it did he start wondering who it was. Annihilated or not, the message had still gotten through.
The old man's ungloved left hand spread its five fingers toward the ground. An eye like a ruby opened in his palm.
Although it made no sound or movement, it was clearly some kind of scanning reconnaissance method.
Then the old man's heart jolted. "How can there be nothing?"
He immediately realized that someone was observing him in secret and promptly inspected all of Heian-kyo, as well as the surrounding area.
After all, he had always suspected that someone was scheming against him. In an utterly ordinary ant-like plane, there was actually an Alchemical Product that even he found astounding. It had even crossed the plane's fetal membrane and disrupted his refinement work.
He had taken it out to study it, only to become entangled by resentment.
He had thought the Female Ghost was simply some bizarre phenomenon that had inexplicably appeared in this world. Now, it seemed that someone had been scheming in secret.
The Female Ghost was also a deliberate ploy by the other party to sabotage him.
"Who could it be? To evade my investigation, they'd have to be at least above the fifty-ninth ring."
"No... That's not right. This isn't merely evading my investigation. I can't even track them. This is only a short segment of Mental Power, transmitted to me directly as though it were a disposable pawn."
Although this segment of Mental Power was extremely weak, that did not represent the strength of the person behind it. Perhaps they had deliberately transmitted only a weak fragment.