Huang Mei was utterly terrified, even though he had already hidden far away.
But this time was different. Those who had come searching were all peerless old monsters. Who knew what heaven-shaking secret arts they might possess?
Forget hiding in a river; even if he fled into the Starry Sky Ancient Path, he still wouldn't feel safe.
Huang Mei's instincts were right. Shangqing Temple, Taiqing Pavilion, Ancestor Buddha Court, Southern Heavenly Court, Northern Heavenly Court, and the Evil Court had all sent their top figures, who arrived at Starry Canyon almost simultaneously.
Old Ancestor Qingfeng of Shangqing Temple took out a water-clear disc and began divining the mysteries. In an instant, two hazy figures appeared on its surface.
Old Ancestor Qingfeng manipulated it for a while, then let out a heavy sigh. "One of them has concealed his fate, but he is definitely not Zheng Jincheng. He must be Xu Nimo.
"The other one has such heavy karma that even my Heavenly Secrets Disk can't illuminate him.
"Fellow Daoist Shishui, have you found anything with your Micro-Karma Technique?"
The Northern Heavenly Court's Sage Lord Shishui said solemnly, "How strange, how strange. This person seems to have vanished into thin air. Even if he used a secret art to hide in a Small World or a spatial treasure, he still couldn't escape my Micro-Karma Technique. And yet he simply disappeared.
"Unless he possesses a peerless spirit treasure and has hidden inside it, allowing it to sever his mysterious ties on its own."
"Investigate. We must investigate this thoroughly. Zheng and Xu are undoubtedly guilty of heinous crimes, but none of the cultivators who entered this time are clean. We must trace everything back."
The speaker was Buddha Rushan of Ancestor Buddha Court. Even after thousands of years of cultivation, he still