Only similar things truly understand each other.
Just like the mating call of a male bird can only be understood by females of the same species, the resonance between identical or similar heart methods in the cultivation world far exceeded the average standard. The more introverted and enclosed the system was, the more intense this resonance became.
Every single assassin from the Heavenly Evasion Sect excelled in the arts of concealment and stealth. Sometimes, when they needed to cooperate with one another, they relied on this exact kind of resonance to understand each other's positions and states. Therefore, Qu Cheng was certain that the resonance rippling through his lake of the heart was definitely not an illusion...
Melting Shadow Escape!
At this very moment, outside the Xuan Huang Killing Sword that was attempting to pierce the outer perimeter of the talisman array, there was a layer of a boundary so narrow it was almost laughable. Yet Qu Cheng could not laugh at all, because right within that tiny boundary, a "furnace" had already been "set up," and power was being smelted and operated within it in a unique way.
Qu Cheng could not perceive the more detailed aspects. Even this surface-level observation was half-guessed from the residual waves of sword qi radiated as the Xuan Huang Killing Sword traversed the strata. After all, the closure of that boundary was simply too strong; if anyone wanted to dig out the details, Ancestor Gu Liang could not do it, nor could he.
So far, he only knew that the feeling was seventy or eighty percent similar, while whether the inner dharma methods were actually like that remained unknown.
Of course, better to kill a thousand by mistake than let one go...
He still could not understand why the Xuan Huang Killing Sword