"Wait, that guy suddenly stopped! He couldn't have heard what I said, could he?"
"At a time like this, you still feel like joking?" Ke Like sighed. "If he could hear us, that'd be a real ghost story. An inside ghost."
Naturally, Wang Qi and Ke Like's group could not have been speaking the Ming Clan language. They themselves were not fluent in it. Wang Qi had only mastered it through the Beauty God's gift, and empowerment could at most pass on a vague impression or concept to others—it could not directly teach them the language.
The avatar emissaries could only stammer out a few phrases of Ming Clan speech.
They could not possibly use that language for internal communication.
Ke Like and Wang Qi mainly communicated through spiritual sense transmissions.
If a Mahayana cultivator could silently eavesdrop on an exchange between the avatars of two Immortals, that really would be a ghost story.
"I think he merely sensed that the environment here is unusual, so he's hesitating over whether to come closer?" An avatar emissary sighed. "And I think our detection range may have been exposed."
Wang Qi and Ke Like both froze.
Although Ke Like was an Immortal of the Free and Unfettered Realm, he had entered the path during the chaos of the Demon Emperor. Yet his cultivation had still been relatively weak then, and he had remained in the rear. By the time he attained the Primordial Spirit, the Demon Emperor's chaos had already subsided. Later, when the Immortal Alliance began exploring the universe, his tremendous potential had led to him being assigned to research on the homeworld. He could be considered one of those who knew how to cultivate but not how to fight. Against masters, he could crush them with all manner of divine