"Xu Xiaoshou, long time no see."
He had only just returned to the Apricot Realm and ordered the God-Worship Willow to summon the Relics of the Gods in the Western Domain Desert.
Xu Xiaoshou's thoughts jolted. He felt a forceful pull, trying to drag him into darkness.
The Devil Ancestor's voice...
This was a consciousness attack.
Now that the Long River of the Way of Will had condensed, Xu Xiaoshou could easily snap free from such attacks.
He did not do so. Instead, he split off a wisp of consciousness, prepared to abandon it entirely if anything went wrong, and followed the Guidance Gate.
It was rare for this opponent of his, who had yet to step into the limelight, to take the initiative and reveal some of his cards. How could he refuse to meet him? Buzz! His mind trembled faintly as his consciousness soared across the distance.
When the Medicine Ancestor had forcibly guided him before, Xu Xiaoshou's consciousness had remained anchored within himself and had not yet connected to the consciousness of the Five Domains.
Thus, after entering the Hometown of Flower Fragrance that time, it had taken him quite a while to figure out where he had gone.
But times had changed. This time was entirely different.
After his true body stepped out upon the Long River of the Way of Will, Xu Xiaoshou could clearly sense all the Devil Ancestor's twists and turns.
The wisp of consciousness he had split off was first led on a wild run through the Heavenly Dao of the Five Domains, as though to blur his judgment and make him lose his way.
Still not satisfied, it was then taken wandering along the River of Time. Only after crossing countless spacetime realms and passing through countless places did it quietly