Heaven's Will Toying with Man

The land of Gui Xu.

Shen Yi used the Heavenly Demon's concealment art to restrain his aura, supplementing it with a few techniques for spatial lockdown from the Earth Immortal realm.

With that, even if a Celestial Being spread their divine sense for a wide-ranging search, they would be utterly unable to detect Shen Yi's aura.

A' Yue, meanwhile, had an extremely thin layer of violet netherflame flickering slowly over her body. The netherflame used the world's vital energy as fuel; it possessed the wondrous ability to isolate one's aura and block detection.

Shen Yi did not probe into the placid lake. After all, if it truly was the boundary between two worlds, and the grotto-heaven had not yet completely collapsed, getting sucked inside by accident would be troublesome.

The iron law of entry permitted but exit forbidden still applied.

Unless they could find a fissure.

But that would inevitably cost them time.

With two Celestial Beings, himself and A' Yue, absent from the mortal world, by the time they returned, the Witch God might already be sitting on the throne of Shangjing's imperial palace.

Still, though Shen Yi had no intention of probing the placid lake, he discovered a skeleton by its shore. The two flashed forward and arrived before it.

The skeleton sat cross-legged, draped in a white Confucian robe. Shen Yi's eyes narrowed slightly. Judging from its style, it was precisely the Confucian uniform of Sanghai Academy.

"Shen Yi, there are words over there."

A' Yue pointed beneath the skeleton, where there was a relatively smooth stone slab. Shen Yi looked over at her words, and his heart jolted.

This man had actually been Sanghai Academy's chief disciple back then,

Master's eldest disciple, Ji Xianya.

Back then, he had joined forces with Master to suppress the Witch