"Strange. I clearly sensed Earth Qi appearing here just now. Why was I unable to find it when I rushed over to search?"
"Could someone have snatched it away?"
"Earth Qi is rare and difficult to refine, but even a Quanzhen True Person would find it hard to refine Earth Qi in a short time!"
"Where exactly did it go?"
In the dilapidated alley.
The gaunt Daoist with a goatee wore a face full of shock and suspicion.
He seemed to be searching for something.
He walked very slowly, looking around in every direction.
Sometimes, after walking dozens of meters, he would turn back and retrace a hundred.
Unfortunately, after searching for most of the night.
Dawn was nearly breaking, yet he had found nothing.
"If this doesn't work, I'll enter Nether Sense and take a look. Earth Qi is rare; I can't afford to miss it. If I can obtain Earth Qi, not only will it be safer for me to break through to my next Rongzhen, I'll also have a greater chance of being chosen for the Divine Selection of Zhaogan!"
"If I want to resist those things, if I want to truly survive."
"Then I can only gamble on it!"
A fierce desire surfaced on Xiang Ju's face.
What did martial arts even count for?
Only by becoming one of the Divine Selection of Zhaogan could one possess the power to contend against the Rot-Borers!
He glanced around.
Then he suddenly sat cross-legged on the ground. He took out an incense stick, entirely black and no thicker than a chopstick. After lighting it with true force, it gave off no smoke at all. Only a point of red light slowly sank downward.
That indicated the black incense was burning.
Xiang Ju sat frozen in place like a