[But the second person had managed to remain completely undetected even by you, and that was not merely because of those things. He himself had comprehended the Void Dao Patterns and made great progress along that path. On top of that, he possessed a treasure intimately connected to it that assisted him...
With all these factors combined, it was impossible for you to feel too distressed over failing to lie in wait for those two. You understood as well that if the invisible wall still stood between you, then no matter how many times you tried, given the distance separating you from them, you would never be able to catch them... Until now, several long months later, when you finally saw an old acquaintance.]
[The third person to emerge alive from the Golden Sand Tide was, as expected, Red Cloud. At least, his physical appearance was not much different from Red Cloud's, aside from the runes that had nearly covered his entire body now seeming to have been painted in gold lacquer, occasionally gleaming beneath the light. Red Cloud also held a scepter you had never seen on him before, one woven from vivid scarlet and golden yellow.
The scepter did not appear much different in design from most scepters you had seen. But when you shifted the Void Golden Eye toward it once more, it was as though you saw tens of millions of people at the same time. It was not as though you were looking at an object, but at living creatures whose forms changed ceaselessly at every moment.
Yes, you could be certain that they were living spirits, not like the yin spirits and dead spirits within the Ink Bone Soul Banner, nor like the many resentful spirits and mourners under Lin's command.]
[Yet just as