At Lu Xiaotian's current level of cultivation, he was already an anomaly among Body Integration cultivators, yet he still had not been worthy of Ye Qianxun's notice.
The Star-Pupa Crystal Conch's sudden disappearance was completely inexplicable, and it left Ye Qianxun feeling vaguely uneasy. Even a fiend like the Nine-Eyed Demon Owl had struggled to break through the Dragon Gate Formation he had set up. Every move had been within his calculations—who, then, possessed the ability to disrupt his plans?
Ye Qianxun's brows drew tightly together. He racked his brains, but still could not figure it out. After the incident, he and the Nine-Eyed Demon Owl had separately swept their divine senses over the area near the Starshine Spirit Pool, yet neither had found anything.
After pondering for a while, even Ye Qianxun could only temporarily abandon his search into this anomaly. His greatest threat at present was still the Nine-Eyed Demon Owl, and he could not waste too much magical power on this inexplicable phenomenon. Otherwise, if the Nine-Eyed Demon Owl pulled some unexpected trick, it would truly shake the overall situation.
After all, this starshine region was simply too vast. Not to mention the Nine-Eyed Demon Owl—even Ye Qianxun, who was already extremely familiar with the place, could not escape the fact that the restrictions here affected divine sense indiscriminately. It was impossible for him to keep every object in the starshine region under constant control. He could only identify the areas where the Star-Pupa Crystal Conch was most likely to appear, then send his minions there.
A glint flashed through Ye Qianxun's eyes. The Star-Pupa Crystal Conch would never vanish for no reason. It would inevitably cause some abnormal changes. When the time came, he could use those changes to determine whether his opponent was human or