Before Ling Shan advanced into this area, she had actually swept it with her Divine Sense. But because it had been too far away, her Divine Sense had been filled with a prickling sensation, preventing her from detecting anything.
Yet now, she seemed to sense something. Her expression jolted, and she immediately probed that area again with utmost care.
Around several dozen breaths later, light flashed in Ling Shan's hand, and two sound-transmission talismans appeared. After swiftly whispering a few words into them, she flicked them away.
At that moment, in two areas to her right, closer to the outer perimeter of the Mountain River Diagram, an old man and a delicate-looking middle-aged man each received a sound-transmission talisman.
After confirming the message, sharp light flashed through both their eyes. They immediately took out sound-transmission talismans, whispered into them, and sent them flying out as well.
After receiving the two sound-transmission talismans, Ling Shan pondered briefly.
The other two elders had still found no trace of the enemy during their searches. That meant only her area had discovered signs of the enemy.
Ling Shan looked at the dense fog ahead. After taking out and activating another sound-transmission talisman, she immediately transmitted her voice to her own team.
"Gather toward me. We need to speed up!"
After considering it, she did not order those two teams to immediately come over and join her. Instead, she had them continue advancing along their established routes.
Once they reached the route roughly level with the place where she had said she detected fluctuations from a formation—one hundred and thirty li ahead—
if they still found no enemy in her direction, they were to hurry over and join her, then destroy the grand formation she had discovered together.
As for her side, she would first