Sure enough, the moment Li Bufan unleashed that surge of Vital Energy, someone noticed. "Such pure Vital Energy! Someone is carrying a treasure that replenishes True Essence!"
"If we can get that Vital Energy in Six Desires Heaven, we'll have a better chance in the coming struggle for Heart-Cleansing Water!"
He Wanxing gritted her teeth, hitched Li Bufan's body higher on her back, and clenched the ribbons tightly in both hands.
She could feel those auras constantly gathering behind her. What had begun as a few had grown into more than a dozen, swelling like a snowball as they drew ever nearer. She did not know how much longer she could run, but she knew she could not stop. The moment she did, both she and Li Bufan would fall into a place of eternal damnation.
When He Wanxing carried Li Bufan out of the rain curtain of Nectar Beneath the Tongue, the auras behind her had already become like a tightening net, closing in from every direction.
The cultivators who had been separately searching through the rain for their sense of taste had all been drawn by that pure fluctuation of Vital Energy. They formed a fan-shaped encirclement and rapidly moved to surround He Wanxing.
He Wanxing's peripheral vision swept over those approaching figures, yet there was not the slightest panic in her heart.
She had recovered all four senses of sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Those four senses were part of her body to begin with, together forming her complete awareness of both herself and her surroundings.
It was precisely this complete awareness that gave her a sensitivity to the location of the Glazed Fire far beyond that of others.
She could feel a strange sensation coming from somewhere ahead—that was the unique aura of the Glazed Fire,