Stone Mountain County.
He left the temple.
Jiang Ning immediately spread out his divine sense.
With his current formidable spiritual power, already possessing the strength of a condensed Yin Spirit, his divine sense swept out and instantly covered roughly one-fifth of Stone Mountain County.
At that moment.
Countless streams of information flowed into his mind.
The myriad faces of the world, all living creatures, and countless voices of conversation surfaced in his mind.
Yet instead of feeling any discomfort, his mind grew ever clearer and more ethereal, racing at high speed.
A moment later.
Not in this area, he murmured inwardly. Then his figure flashed, and he vanished from where he stood.
With the range his divine sense could now cover, he only needed to traverse the entirety of Stone Mountain County to sweep across the whole county with his powerful divine sense and find anyone within the city.
Elsewhere.
Inside a stone house.
Five men sat around the room.
Every one of them had an exceptionally burly build, their exposed muscles bulging like iron blocks.
Within those iron blocks, black lines like earthworms wriggled and slithered.
"Protectors, I want to make a move against Inspector Bai!" The burly man seated with his back to the main entrance spoke, then continued, "That Inspector Bai is an innately spiritually gifted one. The god has granted us power; we must repay the god!"
"Xiao Divine Envoy, he is a genuine court official! This will surely bring down the authorities' brutal retaliation!"
"With a god standing behind us, why should we fear the paltry power of Dongling Commandery?" As he spoke, the burly man seated with his back to the entrance bared his ghastly white teeth, as though they gleamed with cold radiance in the dim stone house.
The others fell silent for