Malicious suspicions

How formidable was the perceptive power of an Ascension Realm cultivator's spiritual sense?

It could be said that not the slightest trace of anything happening around Du Cang Mountain could escape Chen Yan's spiritual sense.

The middle-aged man standing before Du Cang Hall was undoubtedly Li Haowen.

Yet he had no heartbeat and did not breathe.

He was like a dead man.

As Chen Yan stared at Li Haowen standing before the hall's entrance, something suddenly seemed to occur to him—

He still remembered the world he had encountered when he traveled back eight thousand years, when the Tian Ding Mirror sent him to the Tianji Continent of countless ages past.

During the Tianji Continent's final apocalypse, the Supreme Saint of Imperial Void, Bai Chen, had appeared before him. And just before Chen Yan's consciousness dissipated and he died completely, the Imperial Void Saint had uttered three words—

Death was denied.

Li Haowen now looked exactly as Chen Yan had back then.

In other words...

"True Person, I met someone in the cave beneath the lake. He asked me to pass a message on to you."

Li Haowen spoke.

"Who?"

Chen Yan asked.

"The Imperial Void Saint, Bai Chen. That was how he introduced himself."

Li Haowen replied.

A barely perceptible glimmer flashed deep within Chen Yan's eyes.

It was just as Chen Yan had previously suspected.

If the Imperial Void Saint, Bai Chen, could use his karma to "incarnate" as Yan Yunhe and move through this world, then he could not possibly lack other means of leaving traces in the present world.

That was precisely why, eleven years ago, when True Person Caiyun, Kong Yang, passed away, Chen Yan had gone to the Empty Mountain Sect to mourn his old friend and also questioned Yun Yichen—the disciple of Ruan