Amid loud laughter, Shen Defu produced a warning talisman plaque to make a final confirmation.
On the pitch-black surface of the plaque, directional qi flowed out, locking onto the female cultivator beside the fierce flood dragon.
"As expected, remnants of the Spirit Warding Sect!"
At the end of the previous kalpa, Spirit Warding Ancestor founded a sect known as the Spirit Warding Sect. Yet, because he forged a blood feud with the Dongyang Orthodox Sect, his entire clan and sect were slaughtered to the last. Spirit Warding Ancestor dragged his heavily wounded body away, escaping with his bare life, thus forging an irreconcilable enmity.
In recent years, Spirit Warding Ancestor suppressed his injuries and headed straight for the northern lands, exclusively killing cultivators of the Dongyang Orthodox Sect. He threw the Dongyang congregation into a state of alarm three times a day, tossing them about quite wretchedly. During this period, the sect invented such a warning talisman plaque. It collected Spirit Warding Ancestor's aura alongside some spoils of war acquired after storming the Spirit Warding Sect back then, refining the whole thing with Demonic path secret techniques.
Its most primary function was that whenever Spirit Warding Ancestor appeared within a hundred-li radius, the plaque would vibrate in warning, turning blood-red to grant the congregation time to prepare or flee.
The plaque also possessed a rarely used auxiliary function: when it detected living beings augmented by Spirit Warding techniques while no trace of Spirit Warding Ancestor was nearby, the plaque's surface would turn black. This was originally prepared for a scorched-earth strategy—Spirit Warding Ancestor could command all winged creatures and running beasts in the world, driving them to serve as his eyes and ears, or simply employing them for assassinations, making defenses impossible to guard against.
Armed with this plaque, one