In the span of a finger snap, the body suddenly exploded, turning into countless motes of light that scattered away.
As the light swiftly dimmed, the Scholar Cultivator's figure vanished completely without a trace.
A few breaths later, another figure devoid of the slightest aura quietly rushed out of the darkness, appearing precisely where the Scholar Cultivator had disappeared.
The newcomer was none other than Su Shi'er, who had followed the crowd away only to turn back.
"Just as I expected! This old man's guess was right—the scholar-like cultivator truly was no ordinary Qi Refining Stage cultivator."
"On the surface, he was revealing information, but his words clearly carried a hint of provocation. He was plainly targeting the Sacred Spirit Cult."
"With so many cultivators present, it was not necessarily true that no one else had noticed. Yet everyone chose to see through it without exposing it. I fear... they also wanted to go with the flow, using this excuse to challenge the Sacred Spirit Cult and probe its true strength!"
"The Sacred Spirit Cult claimed to possess a method to disperse the darkness. What it attracted was the attention of nearly every cultivator beneath this shroud of darkness! With that, the various factions were bound to actively target them."
"I simply do not know which faction that scholar-like cultivator belonged to."
"More strangely, everything within several dozen li was covered by this old man's Spiritual Sense. How did he... vanish into thin air without being detected by it?"
"Could he also be a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator?"
"But even a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator..."
Standing where the Scholar Cultivator had vanished, Su Shi'er kept muttering softly to himself.
His brows were slightly furrowed, his face carrying a measure of confusion.
With his cultivation at the middle Nascent Soul Stage,