"Killing you here really was heaven's will. Enemies meet on a narrow road, and this puts an end to any thought of revenge you might have had!"
Li Yan felt a measure of relief.
When lightning appeared outside the ruined tower, neither the young man in yellow nor the old woman in red inside noticed anything unusual. But with a sweep of his Divine Sense, Li Yan sensed a familiar presence: a ghost!
It was not just that Li Yan was keenly attuned to souls. He had spent so long in the Netherworld that he was exceptionally sensitive to ghosts.
This ghost, however, was unusual. Qiu Zhongnuo had chosen it specifically because he feared that a fellow Body Integration Realm cultivator might discover it at once. That would have been troublesome.
Qiu Zhongnuo had also considered the chaos of the laws of heaven and earth here, and the raging wind and rain outside. Cultivators would hardly want to search every corner carefully when doing so would only drain their strength.
That was why Li Yan had not detected it earlier either. But he saw the shadowy soul racing along, and then the array suddenly trapped them. When the things attacking them also turned out to be ghosts...
He immediately suspected that the array activated inside the tower was connected to the shadowy soul pursued by lightning. Even then, though, Li Yan could not be sure whether the three people in the tower had caused the disturbance around them or whether the wilderness had produced it on its own...
Qiu Zhongnuo was an old fox. He would not expose himself so easily. But after witnessing how the disturbance began, Li Yan naturally could not trust the three of them.
Li Yan then saw Qiu Zhongnuo attack. After the Spirit Transformation sword