I was careless!
When Lin Xun suddenly erupted into action and struck Ye Feibai, far away in the Central Preservation Palace on the Heavencrystal Snowfield, Fang Qianyuan's expression tightened slightly. Even his face, as still as a ten-thousand-year-old iceberg, betrayed a flicker of emotion.
His opponent was, after all, a towering figure of the Demonic Path. His ability to analyze a battle and seize the right moment was the foundation of his dominance.
Lin Xun's guess had been correct. Ye Feibai was indeed the anchor that allowed Fang Qianyuan to project himself into the small world of Lin Mountain Grotto-Heaven as a manifestation of the Heavenly Dao-an existence known as a "Dao Marker"!
To Fang Qianyuan, Ye Feibai was an important, special pawn. Through this pawn, he could extend his will across the distance and make it resonate with the spiritual will lodged within Ye Feibai's curse seal, thereby transmitting various powers.
Such a prearranged Dao Marker was an elite cultivated through years of painstaking effort, with vast resources and opportunities for growth heaped upon him. An ordinary Human Rank expert or an improvised pawn could only provide the strength for a single strike, like Wen Wei and the others back then, or exert an even fainter, weaker influence of will.
Lin Xun's strike landed, instantly gravely wounding Ye Feibai. The screen of light before Fang Qianyuan, which reflected the void of the lower world, immediately blurred like a reflection in a pool churned by waves.
The countless currents of energy he could sense through that unseen connection also grew indistinct.
His divine soul had developed an immortal nature. After further refinement over the years, it had even reached the threshold of Half-Step Immortality, so this fluctuation did not harm him.
But his distant divine soul fragment almost slipped completely