Discovery

Present day.

The core region of Qingxu.

"How is it? Did you find anything?"

"No."

Xu Xing slowly sheathed his sword, looking at the gray-black mist flowing in different directions before him.

That strike of his had covered every possible layer where an anomaly might exist, yet he still found nothing at all.

"Still nothing..." Charm Ancestor's delicate brows furrowed slightly. "Could Gu have secretly infiltrated by borrowing Xuan's power, so Sword Venerable failed to notice?"

Gu might not necessarily be able to deceive Sword Venerable.

But if it were Xuan, whose strength was nearly on par with his brother's, then with deliberate planning, there was a strong chance he could deceive Sword Venerable.

"No." Xu Xing directly rejected her speculation. "Leaving aside the fact that Xuan himself wishes to probe Gu, even if Xuan were willing to lend his power to Gu, Gu could not conceal it from me and approach the present world while carrying Xuan's power."

The further removed from the present he was, the deeper Gu's control over the "past" became.

Thus, if he wished to borrow Xuan's power while concealing it from a True Immortal, Xuan would need to actively cooperate and extend his power into the past.

That in itself was not a problem.

After all, only the two of them remained as Dao Attainment beings of the entire Cang Race.

If Gu's appearance in Qingxu this time involved Xuan's schemes, Xuan would naturally cooperate with Gu.

But the problem was that Xuan now stood at an extremely high level.

Given Gu's capabilities, Xuan's power would need to extend into an exceedingly distant past before he could possibly borrow it without Xu Xing noticing.

Moreover, this "concealment" would weaken as he gradually approached the present world and his control over the "past" weakened along