"There's something to this."
Lu Changfeng murmured, then called out beyond the burial chamber, "Snow Robe, has anyone escaped through any of the exits around the Yan Mountains, including through the air? Any unusual movements, or anyone appearing out of thin air?"
Almost immediately, Snow Robe's clear voice came back. "Nope! Aboveground and below, everything's clean-not even a ghost in sight! Could they still be hiding inside?"
Even Snow Robe had failed to detect them...
At this, everyone's expression grew graver.
Xiao Jueyan asked urgently, "Mr. Lu, this... can so many living people really vanish into thin air? Or do they have some secret passage we don't know about?"
Lu Changfeng remained silent, but his gaze grew increasingly calm and sharp. He raised his hand again, this time taking out the Formation Disk for the three formations of the [Eight Formations Diagram]. Having just acquired the [Heaven-Covering Formation], he could give it a try.
He was going to divine their whereabouts!
For a spellcaster, divination-peering into heaven's secrets-was a double-edged sword.
Heaven's secrets were not to be divulged. Those who recklessly pried into the Heavenly Dao would inevitably suffer a backlash.
Even with a wondrous formation like the Heaven-Covering Formation protecting his mind, he could perform no more than three divinations in a day. And the greater the web of cause and effect involved in what he divined, the more severely his own fortune would be diminished.
At best, ill luck would dog him for a while, and nothing would go smoothly. At worst, he might invite an undeserved calamity that damaged his very foundations.
The power to peer into heaven could never be abused.
Lu Changfeng banished all stray thoughts and sank his mind into the unseen. Using the Heaven-Covering Formation as a bridge, he reached out to the