Li Yan examined the jade slips, then sensed his surroundings, confirming that his course did not differ greatly from the route marked on their maps. No powerful auras appeared nearby; this was a vast, sparsely populated region.
With a flicker of his divine thought, another Li Yan appeared behind him-a divine thought avatar. Li Yan checked the Ink Cloud's defenses once more before nodding.
Ignoring the avatar standing beside him, he began studying the jade slips carefully on his own. Apart from offense and defense, his strongest means of investigation had always been his powerful divine sense and soul perception, both far beyond those of others at his level.
Because his actual cultivation realm had always lagged behind the strength of his divine sense and soul, even truly powerful opponents generally struggled to guess how keen his perception was once they had confirmed his realm, even if they gave him some extra credit.
This made Li Yan far quicker at detecting things and reacting than other cultivators at his level, helping him escape danger time and again. Yet throughout his progress from the Qi Condensation Stage to the Body Integration Realm, he had never obtained such a rare and precious secret art for seeing through concealment. Now that he had one, he wanted to try cultivating it as he traveled.
The Heavenly Demon Grassland held far too many dangers, especially hidden ones. Cultivators needed sharper, stronger perceptions of danger to survive.
As for his earlier experience of being swallowed by the Prayer-Eerie Kui Buddha Beast, besides how suddenly it had happened,
the Prayer-Eerie Kui Buddha Beast had also been too powerful. Even if Su Wenzhou had noticed something amiss a little earlier, he still would not have been able to break through the vortex and escape.
Besides, Li Yan did