Yunlun Mountain Range, core region.
The battle for the Nine Dragon Veins was in full swing.
It could be said that few spirit cultivators who had remained through the second stage of the trial could stay above the fray.
Willingly or unwillingly, everyone had been swept into the tide.
But there were always exceptions.
A small portion of the trial participants in the Yunlun Mountain Range had not come for the trial itself, but for Sky City.
These stowaways were utterly indifferent to how the trial progressed.
The only thing they cared about was the Void Island Rift high above the heavens.
"When will it descend?"
Storyteller, Xu Xiaoshou's portrait clone, likewise stared listlessly at Void Island in the distance.
The towering ancient city stood above East Heavenly King City. Merely one corner of it revealed its majestic grandeur.
After emerging from the ground, the portrait clone had undergone a second round of alterations and no longer possessed Storyteller's original appearance.
Even his signature red dress had been dyed plain black and white.
Storyteller could not openly appear in the Yunlun Mountain Range and wait to be captured.
What Xu Xiaoshou wanted was for the trial officials to discover him proactively, yet unwittingly—not for him to foolishly run into them and give Rao Yaoyao a chance to recognize him at a glance.
"Buzz—"
As he strolled through the wilderness, an imperceptible spatial ripple came from somewhere nearby.
Xu Xiaoshou's spiritual senses immediately caught it.
Had it been before, he might very well have missed such a concealed spatial ability.
But ever since obtaining the Space Source Stone and analyzing Aberrant's domain from the perspective of spatial nodes, he could instantly conclude, "A battle happened nearby. Someone opened a domain!"
A domain represented a Throne.
Which trial participant could possess