Whoosh—
A breeze blew past.
The smoke on the battlefield thinned a little.
Five or six minutes had passed since the White Snake Sage left, but Qian still maintained Sage Mode with his Susanoo activated.
Time slipped by, second by second.
Only when he sensed that the gaze watching him had vanished did he secretly let out a breath.
Just now, after he had tacitly confirmed the White Snake Sage's guess about his identity, he had sensed a wave of killing intent.
That killing intent had come quickly and left just as quickly.
But he still had some guesses about where that killing intent had come from.
If his expectations were correct, it should have been the owner of that gaze—in other words, the Sage of Six Paths hiding in the Pure Land.
Long ago, he had suspected that the other party's efforts to collect ninja souls and store chakra were for the sake of dealing with pursuers from the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
Now, it seemed that this guess was most likely correct.
Otherwise, after he had tacitly confirmed his identity as a member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, the other party would not have revealed killing intent.
As for why the other party had suddenly withdrawn that killing intent?
The reason was actually very simple. He had probably seen that Qian was not someone from the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and that just now he had merely been using another's prestige to bolster himself.
Because of that, with the Sage of Six Paths' temperament, he let him off.
Even so, he still observed him for a while at the end.
Only now had he withdrawn his gaze.
And just now, Qian had been guarding against the other party suddenly making a move.
Fortunately, the outcome had not been that bad. In the end,