Chen Lin watched True Lord Wanmeng return to the main camp, then began scouting around it.
Although he was on fairly good terms with True Lord Wanmeng, he could not simply take the man's word for everything in a place like this. He needed to verify the information through multiple sources.
After all, people changed. Hundreds of years had passed, and no one could remain exactly as they had been.
Soon, Chen Lin spotted a small figure creeping cautiously along the ground. The figure noticed him as well and immediately stopped, assuming a defensive stance.
"What do you want?"
As Chen Lin approached, the small figure's gaze immediately sharpened, and a purple ring appeared in her hand.
The sight of that purple ring made Chen Lin pause.
He knew this item all too well. He had once owned one himself-it was the spirit treasure, the Purple Spirit Ring!
Anyone using a spirit treasure was undoubtedly a cultivator. Moreover, the Purple Spirit Ring was only a low-grade spirit treasure, so someone using it would not have particularly high cultivation.
Chen Lin stopped and extended his divine sense to examine her.
Sure enough, she was only at the Nascent Soul late stage, and she was a female cultivator. She appeared to have used some sort of disguise technique: her body's proportions were slightly off, and her skin looked unnatural.
He could not help frowning.
Surviving here with such cultivation would not be easy. She probably had not been here long and would have limited information.
"Who are you, and what do you want? Come any closer, and I won't hold back!"
The petite figure sensed Chen Lin's divine sense probing her, and her expression changed.
Anyone capable of using divine sense here had to be at Spirit Transformation or above. If he