The black aura had neither form nor substance and was impossible to fathom. It seemed not to belong to this space, yet it had unmistakably appeared within it.
It was utterly uncanny.
With a hum, Ma Hou appeared out of thin air inside a cave abode.
Almost the instant Ma Hou appeared, that wisp of black aura silently followed the spatial passage into his cave abode.
The black aura did not immediately enter Ma Hou's body. Instead, it circled the cave abode before returning to hover before him.
The wisp of black aura was right in front of Ma Hou, yet he seemed not to see it and remained completely unaware of its presence.
Whoosh...
The black aura touched Ma Hou's body, then... silently slipped inside him.
The entire process was seamless. Even the chaos origin already within Ma Hou could not stop it.
"First, I need to find Qin Hao."
Ma Hou felt nothing unusual about his divine body. In fact, he had no idea that such a mysterious black aura had entered him.
That was hardly surprising.
Outside the Qiankun Sect, Ma Hou might have maintained some vigilance.
After all, True Gods had countless tricks at their disposal. A moment's carelessness could leave him caught in one.
But this was the Qiankun Sect.
Countless experts resided within the Qiankun Sect, and formations protected it. Under normal circumstances, not even a trace of spatial fluctuation would arise, let alone a black aura.
Naturally, the possibility never occurred to Ma Hou.
Whoosh!
Ma Hou waved his right hand, and a Message Jade Slip appeared out of thin air. He then sent a strand of thought into it.
This Message Jade Slip was his means of contacting the Qiankun Sect Disciples under his command. As the person closest to Pei Jinye,