Whoosh, whoosh!!
A streak of white-flame spirit light flashed through the air, traced an arc across the distant sky, circled once, then flew over another boundlessly vast mountain range, where it began wheeling round and round...
At the foot of a mountain covered in Sky-Piercing Pillars, the largest of these Formation Pillars were overgrown with moss and vines. Who knew how long they had stood there? They had already fallen into utter disrepair.
Beneath an enormous pillar, a tiny bead of spirit light flickered with exceedingly faint rune light...
Several hundred li away from this bead of spirit light, inside an exceptionally well-hidden mountain cave...
Saint As, Ye Han, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member, and the Nethergod Devil Lord sat before an enormous glowing formation. Within its light, they could clearly see rotating spheres bearing curtains of spirit light, each displaying a different scene.
The scenes displayed by these glowing spheres were precisely the images transmitted by the beads of spirit light Ye Han had placed outside...
What made these beads remarkable was that, out in the open, they blended into the heaven and earth spiritual energy, giving off only a trace of unusual aura. Even Mahayana Stage cultivators would not sense that they were being watched.
That was because these Formation Beads observed an entire area rather than specifically locking onto a cultivator or another living being.
Thus, cultivators would not feel that they were being spied upon!!
In one of the glowing images, they could see that white figure streak past in a blaze of escape light. After a few flickers, the figure vanished from that image, then appeared in another...
Watching this, Saint As said, "Now we can be certain. This fellow isn't that immortal's immortal soul or immortal spirit!"
He paused, then continued with a grave