That could only mean one thing.
The demonic beast possessed spiritual awareness.
Han Xiangming knew perfectly well that he was only a Seventh Realm cultivator. Facing an Eighth Realm demonic beast undoubtedly meant putting himself in danger.
Yet he had come anyway.
He was simply too eager to test once more whether the cultivation method he had extracted from the "Purple Mansion Empty Mountain Art" could achieve even greater results.
Although Han Xiangming could not determine the Eighth Realm greater demon's location through its demonic aura, he was certain that, at this distance, it must have discovered him long ago.
But he had his own methods.
The stern-faced young man in plain white Daoist robes slowly closed his eyes, spread out his spiritual sense, and began to resonate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Han Xiangming loved to delve into things.
His interests were not limited to the cultivation methods his master had placed in the Library Pavilion.
They naturally included the principles governing heaven and earth.
Or, perhaps, the factors that influenced the circulation of spiritual energy.
Too many factors in this world could interfere with the flow of spiritual energy.
Temperature, for instance. Mass, too. Or the aura of an Immortal Cultivator. Even certain things Han Xiangming could not yet perceive or understand, things that seemingly did not exist in this world, could do so...
Han Xiangming surmised that those were laws-or, perhaps, karma.
He had once wondered what drove everything in this world to function. Through observing spiritual energy, Han Xiangming discovered that some special factor must exist unseen behind it all.
After pondering and speculating, Han Xiangming reached a conclusion.
Karma.
When Han Xiangming, who had only just entered the Guiyi Realm at the time, shared these conjectures with Chen Yan.
Chen Yan fell