Yizhou.
Light of wu earth crisscrossed like woven threads, descending from the Grotto-Heaven.
At first, it became clouds of radiant mist that swirled across the sky. Upon touching the ground, it condensed again into thick earth qi, nourishing Shu's thousand peaks until they stood taller and more majestic, immovable as ever.
The entire Grotto-Heaven resembled a perfectly rounded egg, half hidden in the Great Void and half submerged in the mortal world. It hung precisely between the commanderies of Ba-Shu, echoing Lacquer Mountain from afar.
Deep in the Great Void, Xu Xuan stood motionless.
Dim, ghostly light rippled around him like a gauze cloak, concealing every trace of life and hiding his movements from outside eyes.
The [Concealing Radiance, Evading Yin Talisman] was indeed extraordinary. It treated the living as dead and slipped through the Gloomy Netherworld. Now that he had activated it, the Purple Mansion cultivators outside could no longer detect his aura.
As the most renowned tradition of the ancient Netherworld, hearing the nether excelled at traversing the Gloomy Netherworld, seizing souls, binding spirits and dispatching spectral generals, and commanding fiends. Its applications were endless.
Even Xu Xuan himself had no confidence that he could detect a cultivator concealed by this talisman.
"If a great cultivator of the Hearing the Nether Path wanted to hide, there would probably be very few Purple Mansion cultivators in the world who could find them."
Altar thunder's [Heaven-Commanding Tribulation] possessed the marvel of wielding heaven's will by proxy, enhancing perception as well. Yet even it struggled to trace hearing the nether. Only the black laws showed a slight reaction, as though sensing something.
The Heavenly Eye between Xu Xuan's brows shone fiercely as he gazed toward the Grotto-Heaven. The overlapping barriers of wu earth light were gradually thinning, showing faint signs of