"So that was it. This was what they called the will of heaven!"
Inside Central Preservation Palace on the Heavencrystal Snowfield, Fang Qianyuan closed his eyes and pondered in silence.
Like a man casting a fishing line from the shore, he could not pierce infinite space and time, trace mysterious karma, and pinpoint the whereabouts of the Yellow Venerable and the others.
They were experienced, knowledgeable powerhouses among the Ancient Cultivators. They had already suffered grievously at the hands of the Star Map and karma. How could they fail to take precautions?
Fang Qianyuan could only vaguely sense that the realm where they were hiding seemed to contain an immensely grand existence. Its boundless might obscured heaven's secrets, making it impossible to find.
He had only encountered one such existence before: the Heavenly Dao Will of the Spirit-Taming World. He therefore suspected that they were hiding somewhere within the Five Regions.
Yet that aura also seemed different from the Spirit-Taming World's, so he considered the surrounding worlds, large and small, and even several domains within the Nine Hells.
With so many possible targets, he might as well have had none. His subordinates could only follow the few clues they possessed, searching as though fishing for a needle in the sea.
Fang Qianyuan had also considered using the Star Map to survey the various realms and find them. Perhaps because of the presence of the Heavenly Dao Will, however, searching these domains was always like viewing flowers through mist, never quite clear.
The Heavenly Realms Alliance also had other plans. Continually searching the starry sky, scouting out new spirit-essence worlds, and recording them as targets for conquest was its true priority. Using it to search for living beings who could run about everywhere, and whose bodies were utterly insignificant beside an