The moment Huanghou and Baidou escaped into the soil, they sensed the Earth Spirit Pearl's movements. Once the pearl left Xinghuan's body, it no longer rejected others. It was a treasure without a master, available to anyone, regardless of cultivation realm. All that mattered was how closely fate connected them.
The two pushed their Earth Escape to its utmost speed. Underground, where raw strength alone decided things, their Golden Core cultivation was beyond anything Heaven-Connecting Realm disciples could withstand-even Constellation True Disciples.
They reckoned they would soon catch up with the Earth Spirit Pearl, and then they would have countless ways to claim it. As for whatever consequences this might cause in the tribe, they could no longer spare a thought for that.
Just then, someone converted Earth Element Power into Divine Sense, sending a message throughout the underground in an instant: the cultivators of the Northern Heaven Gate were here to seize the Earth Spirit Pearl!
Divine Sense and Earth Element Fluctuations could be converted into one another, but there was no way to direct them. Once a message was sent, everyone underground would know, without a single exception. That was why nobody communicated this way. Everyone quietly contemplated the Great Dao and left everyone else alone.
But this message instantly stirred up a hornet's nest!
The nearly hundred cultivators underground had already been wondering why the Earth Spirit Pearl's fluctuations had suddenly changed while they were studying them. Even its position seemed to have stopped being fixed. Hearing this, they immediately understood. Never mind what intentions the speaker harbored, how he knew these were Northern Heaven Gate cultivators, or why he told everyone instead of seizing the Earth Spirit Pearl himself.
None of that mattered anymore. What mattered was that the Earth Spirit Pearl now had no master,