He paced a few steps, then stopped and looked up at the sky.
The sun was hidden behind dark clouds, and the gloomy sky was growing ever more crowded with them.
It had been quite some time since it last rained over the imperial city.
His senses toward heat and cold had already dulled. He spent every day buried in cultivation, unaware of the cycle of days and months or the changing of the seasons.
He sighed, shook his head, and resumed pacing.
With the two sects jointly keeping this cave mansion secret, very few people knew of it.
Perhaps only a handful of Elders were aware.
He wondered how far they had gotten. Were they merely exploring it, or had they begun excavating it?
Exploring a cave mansion did not require many hands. Four or five experts from each sect would suffice.
Under such circumstances, he could hardly force the two sects' Elders to reveal the cave mansion's location outright.
That left only the clumsy method.
At that thought, he swiped his left hand, and a gate of light appeared.
He stepped through it and vanished. The next instant, he appeared in a forest halfway up a mountain outside Jade Kunlun Palace.
A transparent Flying Dagger silently drifted over and hovered above his head.
He closed his eyes and stood motionless, while his Super Sensation spread outward.
Half an hour later, he opened his eyes, frowned, and shook his head.
He drew another gate of light and stepped through, vanishing from sight.
Only the Flying Dagger remained, silently gliding toward the mountaintop before stopping within a crack in a rock.
It illuminated all directions, covering a range of ten miles and allowing him to see every disciple leaving Jade Kunlun Palace.
He returned to the small courtyard at