Half a day passed.
Liu Wen and several other elders of the Yuanming Sect secretly set out, moving under cover of night. Using a secret technique, they locked onto Ma Gubo's aura and tracked him across a thousand miles, finally reaching their destination.
"Supreme Elder, is this the place?"
The Yuanming Sect elders arrived in the midst of a great mountain. The surroundings were utterly desolate, strewn with piles of jagged rocks, without the slightest trace of human habitation or a single shadow of a person.
They looked at Liu Wen in great confusion, for there was no sign whatsoever of Ma Gubo.
"That's right. This is the place."
Liu Wen was utterly certain. "Ma Gubo is quite cunning. He erased his aura everywhere he went and destroyed every trace he left behind. Ordinary people truly might not have discovered him and would have let him escape.
"But who am I? I am Liu Wen, a mighty expert of the Lightning Tribulation Realm, well-versed in the arts of tracking. No matter how this fellow fled and scurried about, he could not escape the palm of my hand. I still discovered his trail.
"Take a look, everyone. This place is most unusual. A profound restriction formation has been set up here, twisting space, hiding without form, merging into the five elements, and reversing Heaven and Earth with the Eight Trigrams. That is why none of you noticed it and simply passed it by."
The elders fixed their eyes on the area and carefully probed it with their divine senses, sending their perceptions sweeping in every direction. In an instant, every one of them changed expression, clearly sensing that something was deeply wrong with this place.
"As expected of the Supreme Elder. This place really is abnormal."
"If Elder Liu's divine abilities