Upon hearing Xu Taiping's voice, Dongfang Yuejian turned to Master Xuanzhi beside her and entrusted him with a solemn expression:
"Master Xuanzhi, I leave it to you!"
Xuanzhi immediately nodded slightly.
"Rest assured. Should any powerful aura descend from the heavens, it will not escape this humble monk's divine soul perception."
As he spoke, Xuanzhi pressed his palms together and sat on the ground. The golden Buddha light around him rapidly spread outward like ripples across water.
Xuanzhi had now reached the Arhat Realm, though the constraints of the Heavenly Dao Edict prevented him from unleashing its full combat strength.
But as a Buddhism disciple, he had one advantage: their magical power came from the Beyond the Domain Buddhist Kingdom rather than the Shangqing Realm. Thus, so long as he did not display combat strength beyond the Dao Integration Realm, he would, like ultimate Dao law cultivators such as Xu Taiping, merely have his cultivation restricted without suffering punishment from the Heavenly Dao Edict's restrictions.
In terms of cultivation and divine soul power alone, the present Xuanzhi far surpassed Xu Taiping and could even rival great cultivators of the Dao Integration Realm.
Thus, no one could have been better suited to keeping watch for powerful figures from the Upper Realm.
"Snap!"
While Xuanzhi concentrated on sensing his surroundings, Dongfang Yuejian did not remain idle either.
She spread a blank scroll open on the sand, then took out the Spring and Autumn Brush. Using her true essence, qi and blood, and divine soul power as ink, she swiftly painted a portrait of a monk on the scroll.
A closer look revealed that the monk in the portrait was none other than Xuanzhi.
"Rise!"
Then Dongfang Yuejian picked up the scroll and gave it a forceful upward shake. A clone who looked