Drawing on the results of his deductions, Fang Yun began laying out his arrangements one after another. He placed illusions where passages branched in many directions, hid traps along straight corridors, and used the military stratagem Deceiving Heaven to Cross the Sea to disguise junctions as walls. Every arrangement had been carefully considered, enough to slow the Emperor Realm pursuer and eventually lead it elsewhere.
After fleeing far into the distance, Fang Yun stopped employing these methods, which would better conceal his whereabouts.
"Emperor Realm experts who have been famous for years all have their own secret arts. I hope this isn't one with powerful premonitions."
Fang Yun checked the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror fragment again and confirmed that it could not be tracked. If his pursuer could track the mirror, he would have been intercepted long ago.
The labyrinth was immense. Fang Yun kept moving and encountered two more Treasure Pavilions in succession. The auras inside were astonishing, and there were even Emperor Realm ancient corpses, but both contained Ancient Corpse Giant Coffins. Fang Yun could not be bothered to waste time using the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror to inspect their contents and fled faster instead. If he happened to reveal something valuable and stir his desires, he might well capsize in a gutter.
Fang Yun could not say whether the Radiance-Reflecting Mirror fragment had actually earned any credit. Whenever he entered a corridor containing one of those two Treasure Pavilions, the mirror immediately vibrated. The problem was that once he reached such a corridor, he was bound to discover the pavilion anyway.
As time passed, Fang Yun found himself increasingly interested in the treasures here, as though seeking them were an instinctive need, no different from eating his fill and keeping warm.
"Could it be that the longer I stay, the more