Yun Qing raised his hand, his fingertip lightly brushing the lake's surface.
"The disturbance would be too great."
"Foul qi and turbid currents choking the spiritual veins would have disturbed the spiritual workings of the Demon Court's Ancestral Homeland long ago. Your supreme experts couldn't possibly have failed to notice."
The Dragon Lord pondered this, then suddenly understood, settling his dragon heart back into his belly after all its anxious bouncing.
Indeed, compared with the terrifying main body hanging over Heavenly Origin, this wisp of Kanming Burial Breath that an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon could exploit was, frankly, pathetically weak.
The true trouble had always been its silently taking root in Heavenly Origin's cracks, lying in wait for a critical juncture or a turning point in a great war before suddenly erupting and unleashing catastrophe.
If it really were an overwhelming calamity out in the open, Heavenly Origin had countless mighty experts who could suppress it.
"That makes sense." At that thought, everyone felt a little more at ease.
Yet Yun Qing suddenly raised his hand and pressed his palm downward, signaling everyone to conceal their auras completely.
Their expressions turned solemn, and they instantly suppressed every trace of their auras.
The little fellow in Yun Qing's mind couldn't help wandering off topic for a second. Having a "high-efficiency demon-extermination squad of mighty experts" along really does save me trouble.
He transmitted his voice. "That vile breath probably hasn't fled far. It's remained within the Demon Court's territory all along."
His double pupils shifted as he surveyed this stretch of heaven and earth, and Yun Qing suddenly headed forward and to the right.
Everyone concealed their auras and followed him deeper along the water veins where a hundred streams converged. Finally, they passed through a curtain of hanging ancient vines, and