Xiao Yu stood in midair, looking at a fissure in the rock halfway up the cliff. It was only about ten feet long and just wide enough for one person to squeeze through sideways.
Several slabs of rock obscured the entrance from outside; one had to round a bend before seeing it. It was an extremely secluded spot. No wonder nobody had discovered it before.
Had Xiao Yu not been certain that the elderly man surnamed Ge and the young married woman in white had vanished here, he probably would have struggled to find it.
After looking around and finding nothing unusual, Xiao Yu used the Wind-Hiding Technique to conceal his cultivation aura completely.
This Wind-Hiding Technique was actually the Nameless Aura Concealment Technique recorded in the beast-hide Daoist book. As for the Nine Gale Transformations cultivation art in that book, Xiao Yu had begun studying it after crafting his Illusory Thunder Wings, and had now mastered it as well.
The fissure was pitch-black inside, but almost every Nascent Soul cultivator could see in the dark, so that posed no difficulty. Besides, Xiao Yu's vision had become even stronger since he had refined his Bright-Clear Spirit Eyes.
Underfoot lay an uneven path of dirt and stone that sloped gently downward.
After following it for a hundred feet or so, he reached a slightly wider stretch, broad enough for two people to walk abreast. The farther he went, the more it opened up.
Several miles farther in, he reached a limestone cave within the mountain, roughly a hundred feet across. Three openings led away in different directions.
Xiao Yu approached and carefully examined the ground, rock walls, and other features around the three openings. Only after searching thoroughly with his divine sense did he enter the opening on the right.
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