Before long, all that remained here was endless wind and snow, with the savage gale tearing wildly through...
The cultivators stationed at this sect's mountain gate had been hiding in nearby formations all along. So long as nothing happened that would harm the sect, they naturally would not show themselves.
Not long after the black flying boat departed, a transparent figure silently appeared not far in front of this mountain gate.
The figure glanced at where the black flying boat had vanished, then flickered and pursued it in that direction. It was Li Yan, who had left earlier!
Li Yan threaded through the endless wind and snow, already merged with the surrounding storm. Flying at top speed while maintaining such concealment greatly increased the rate at which he consumed spiritual power.
Yet he paid no heed to that now. As he spread out his divine sense, he rapidly searched for traces of the black flying boat. Just as he had stepped into the air to leave earlier, he had also sensed spatial fluctuations behind him.
He knew those had been caused by the three people behind him taking to the air. Ever cautious, Li Yan did not want others getting too close.
Thus, his divine sense had naturally swept backward. But that sweep stirred something in his heart.
The cultivator who had flown away alone was nothing worth mentioning. Li Yan's attention immediately settled on the black flying boat.
At first glance, there seemed to be nothing unusual about that flying boat. Yet the instant the other party took it out, Li Yan had sharply sensed irregular ripples and tremors in the surrounding metal- and water-element laws of heaven and earth.
Ordinary Dharma cultivators might not necessarily have been able to detect such tremors, but Li Yan cultivated the five-element