"Pfft..."
Deep within Nine Nether Mountain, ten thousand miles away.
Inside a cave abode as black as ink, Ning Jiuying abruptly opened his eyes while cultivating in seclusion to regulate his breathing.
He sat cross-legged on a pitch-black Cold Jade Platform, dense black demonic qi swirling around him.
The instant his eyes opened, his expression changed sharply. He clamped his right hand over his heart and spat out a mouthful of dark-red essence blood.
"Ah..."
Ning Jiuying let out a heart-rending howl.
Veins bulged across his wrinkle-covered face.
He looked as though he were enduring the agony of a thousand cuts.
Hissing sounds rose from the depths of his Divine Sense, as though something were being forcibly stripped from his soul.
The essence blood within Lin Shisan was a contingency he had deliberately planted.
Although Lin Shisan had refined it several times, although it had seemingly vanished long ago, a faint connection had always remained.
It was one of his hidden pieces.
More than that, it was a nail he had left within Lin Shisan, a karmic chain linking the two of them.
Now that karmic chain had been utterly severed by the hornless dragon true spirit.
Along with it, the trace of a Divine Sense mark he had left in the essence blood had also been annihilated.
As its source, even ten thousand miles away, he still had to endure the agony of his Divine Sense being torn apart.
"Lin Shisan... you actually..."
Ning Jiuying's voice sounded like a night owl's cry.
It carried bone-deep hatred and chilling murderous intent, but above all, shock.
He could never have imagined how Lin Shisan, a mere boy at the fifth stage of Meridian Opening, could so easily sever the Divine Sense of a Sky Soaring Realm True Person.
Unless...
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