The Ascend-to-Heaven Mountains, Long Deer Peak.
Whoosh!
Purple-Cyan Escape Light flashed amid surging wind and thunder, their cries intertwining. The green-robed figure hovering high in the sky, his eyes blazing with divine light, abruptly vanished.
When he reappeared, he was already standing at the foot of the mountain, above that strange grayish-white presence resembling a "ripple."
He examined it from close range.
He could still make out only fragments, nothing truly distinct. Closing the distance so drastically had not made it any clearer or more tangible.
The ripple felt like a thin veil, poised between existence and nonexistence.
"Interesting-"
An odd smile crept onto Lin Changheng's face.
Pinpointing this obviously unusual presence was already a crucial step forward.
Now he could take his time working out the rest.
Lin Changheng had always possessed that patience.
Immediately, his thoughts raced as he explored possibilities, analyzing and assessing.
Before long, he settled on one line of reasoning.
If the manifestation of this strange presence had nothing to do with proximity or the strength of the divine sense sweeping over it, then why could he "see" it when other cultivators could not?
Could something unusual about him, or some special ability he possessed, be playing a crucial role in his ability to "see" it?
As soon as this line of reasoning emerged, Lin Changheng's eyes lit up, and he began examining his own abilities.
Naturally, his attention fell on [Seven-Colored Divine Light], and he began breaking it down.
The first thing to test was, of course, the core of [Seven-Colored Divine Light]: the true essence of [Candle Gaze Divine Ability], one of the highest-ranked innate abilities he commanded.
His eyes closed, then opened.
"ROAR!!!"
With the sudden eruption of a dragon's roar from time immemorial, an enormous pair of deep, shadowy pupils appeared