The Dragon Demon King and the others did not even have time to undo the Dragon-Binding Rope before heading straight back to the North Sea.
Ling Qing and the others rode their escape lights down near Fengdu. After asking the Mountain God and the local earth spirits, by the time they found the secluded valley where the old demons had hidden themselves, the people were gone and the valley stood empty.
Everyone used their own methods to investigate, and all agreed that they had already left.
Ling Qing said, "Judging by these methods, it must have been the Macaque King's doing. The last time I tracked down the Dragon Demon King and found him, he vanished in exactly this way."
Dan Sheng said, "This is the Macaque King's Spirit-Penetrating Technique. I once heard my master speak of it.
"It lets one travel through the yin and yang of the Netherworld, crossing a thousand li in a single step, with no gap between the two realms."
Hearing this, Ling Qing raised a hand, and the Karma Fire Red Lotus appeared in his palm.
Then he clenched empty air, drawing forth strand after strand of aura, and breathed them all onto the Karma Fire Red Lotus.
With a puff.
Those auras were burned by the karma fire, turning into a wisp of green smoke that vanished without a trace.
Yet at the same time, four dim figures surfaced in his mind.
Ling Qing raised his head and looked north. "They went north."
The Wondrous Pure Emperor had originally used karma fire to forge a Ghost Body, then refined a Lotus Platform into the Karma Fire Red Lotus.
It could lock onto karmic force and track sins and karma.
Still, the cultivation of those four old demons far surpassed that of the Wondrous