"Step!"
"Step!"
"Step!"
Zhiling paced gracefully, stirring barely perceptible ripples in space. As though strolling through another world, she followed silently behind Mo Li.
This was no simple spatial escape technique, but an exquisite application of Zhiling's Innate Talent Profound Ability, [Purple Luo Heavenly Barrier], from the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox Clan.
She could activate the ability and sweep out seven layers of spatial barriers with her tails, isolating all things and forming a world of her own, folding her existence into a space that closely adjoined this world yet remained distinctly separate from it.
Hidden through such an ability, she would leave no trace to be detected even when following a Nascent Soul Early Stage True Lord, let alone a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Of course, Zhiling was currently only a Third-Realm Demon General, so she would naturally never underestimate a True Lord.
A Nascent Soul True Lord's inability to detect traces of the Purple Luo Heavenly Barrier did not mean their Divine Sense and spiritual perception lacked acuity.
Quite the opposite: even without detecting anything, True Lords with such transcendent cultivation could sense through some mysterious intuition that they were being watched, gradually discovering that something was amiss.
"Ying?"
Zhiling tilted her little head, not understanding why Beiwu wanted her to follow a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Wouldn't it be better to simply capture her and interrogate her?
"Watch closely. Don't do anything rash!"
Hearing Chen Beiwu's mental message, Zhiling sprang up with a start and hurried after Mo Li.
The Dispatch Office, Yunlong Market.
Mo Li took a deep breath, tightened her grip on the Jade Slip containing her requisition order, passed the identity check, and entered.
The cultivators coming and going inside hurried along, most wearing expressions of exhaustion or irritation. No one spared this veiled, plainly dressed Foundation