Seven months later, Li Yan reappeared in Saint Demon City. By then, he had obtained some of the key information he wanted.
This time, his probing of that medium-sized market had instead succeeded. He had performed Soul Search on the memories of two Void Refinement cultivators stationed there and uncovered the information he sought.
Besides obtaining the necessary information, he had unexpectedly also seen some secrets concerning the Azure Glass Gold mine vein in those two men's memories.
The moment he saw those secrets, Li Yan confirmed that his previous judgment had been correct. He had handled the situation extremely well at the time.
Otherwise, even if he had obtained the information he wanted, he might have caused an abnormality in the Azure Glass Gold mine vein, drawing the White Devil Race's attention and concern. That would have been absolutely detrimental to his subsequent plans.
He had finally figured out why he had run into trouble. The defenses the White Devil Race had set up there actually made use of bloodline inheritance marks, something he had never encountered before.
After White Devil Race disciples released their spiritual sense into the formation, they could judge the strength of the fluctuations in a person's sea of consciousness. Under the Brain-Eating Gu's control, he had seemingly revealed no issues at the time.
Yet after that Nascent Soul Cultivator lost autonomous control, his reactions had weakened afterward. The cultivators stationed there detected the anomaly, and once suspicion arose, they repeatedly investigated...
The later success at the market had likewise exceeded Li Yan's initial expectations. He had not made it his first target because places like that were highly likely to contain experts above the Void Refinement Realm.
He had also believed that places like markets and cultivation cities, with so many cultivators constantly coming