"That's right. He's here!"
Lin Xi stood with his sword in hand, his magic robe billowing and his aura razor-sharp. The negative emotions left by his earlier battle with the Divine Descentors were swept away, leaving his sword heart clear and pristine.
Although the Divine Descentors had proved rather unexpected, they had no real means of threatening him. From beginning to end, his concern had been for the other Immortal Alliance cultivators.
Everyone below the Primordial Spirit realm, from Nascent Soul Experts to Core Formation Experts, could now be encircled and hunted down by them. How could he not worry?
Yet the moment Li Chen appeared, he cast that concern to the back of his mind.
Li Chen had once severely wounded Zong Yiyang. The threat he posed was far beyond anything the Divine Descentors could offer.
"Zzzzt, zzzzt..."
While Lin Xi and Xiao Linyue stood on guard, the Divine Descentors high above in the sky also began to grow wary and uncertain.
Every warship they rode aboard had detected a strange fluctuation that vanished in a flash.
"What's going on? Has the signal weakened?"
"Unidentified energy detected ahead. Suspected composite of multiple electromagnetic and spirit wave energies. No samples in the database..."
"It suddenly disappeared!"
They could not tell whether the fluctuation was electromagnetic, spiritual essence, or something else entirely. There was no record of it in the database, and even after running projections through multiple models, the Mind Core could not identify it.
It came without a shadow and left without a trace, like a ghost in a mortal's eyes, lending an eerie air to the scene. Had their instruments not clearly displayed evidence of its appearance, everyone might have thought their discovery had been an illusion.
"Not good! Those Immortal Alliance cultivators are getting away!"
They soon