After entering the Outer Realm Battlefield, the Heart-Connecting Bead's resonance grew threefold stronger.
Yet it was still ethereal and indistinct, there one moment and gone the next, seeming near and then far, impossible to pin down.
Chu Zhiyuan also knew that if the person were truly so easy to find, someone would have found him long ago.
Even after coming to the Outer Realm Battlefield, the situation remained the same. He faintly felt that this person might already be dead.
The Heart-Connecting Bead might have been dropped into some corner, or acquired by some wild beast, which was why it gave off a faint sense of life.
Its location had kept changing, never remaining still.
Thus, he guessed that the beast that had obtained the Heart-Connecting Bead was constantly on the move, perhaps in the sky or in the water.
Earlier, there had been more pressing matters. Now that the greatest matter had been resolved, he could focus his full attention on this.
Relying on his formidable Spiritual Power, he kept tightly locked onto the Heart-Connecting Bead's resonance and hurried onward by following it.
His feet moved as if shrinking the earth into inches; one step carried him a hundred meters, incomparably swift.
Chu Zhiyuan only regretted that the Spiritual Abyss Body Cleansing Record could not be shared between the main body and the avatar.
Their cultivation progress could not be stacked; each body had to cultivate separately.
If their progress could be stacked, his speed would double.
While Chu Liezhao pursued without pause, Chu Zhiyuan returned to Prince Qing's Estate and ate with Chu Minghou, Bai Ningshuang, and his younger sister Chu Yi.
This day was no different from the days before, unchanged in the slightest by their ascension to Beyond the Heavens.
He considered finding some life-extending Spiritual