The old woman surnamed He arranged for eighteen Nascent Soul cultivators to conduct a carpet-style search. She felt they should be able to ferret out that nest of rats.
After searching the last two rooms she found most suspicious, she left the remaining rooms to the final group for a painstaking room-by-room investigation.
If she gained nothing, she would focus on the area of the deck where the Blood Lantern Sect party had previously stood. Her deduction was, in truth, quite reasonable.
At this moment, Li Yan had taken advantage of those few breaths of fiercest rumbling. In the span of several hundred zhang, he had already slipped to the bow of the vessel, then swiftly stood in a corner and steadied his aura to its optimal state.
With his current late Nascent Soul cultivation, once he cast "Night Concealment," he nearly merged perfectly with the surrounding space, his entire body turning into a matching patch of nothingness.
Li Yan believed that even if he used "Phoenix Soars to Heaven" in this state, Spirit Transformation cultivators would find it difficult to notice him.
Ever since sensing the conversion of yin and yang power within the Fuxi Disc, his visualization of the grand five elements in the outside world seemed to have gradually enabled him to see the trajectory of every type of elemental spiritual energy, from birth to extinction.
Unfortunately, even after the flying vessel entered the Great Fruitless tree region, he still could not use "Night Concealment" to escape.
The laws stirred by the shrinking flying vessel were different. He could no longer perfectly merge with the surrounding aura either.
When he was squeezed out of the giant vessel, others would still notice abnormal fluctuations and be able to lock onto him.
"Night Concealment" had originally been a stealth