Exploring (Part Two)

Mingdu City had four gates, one in each direction. At each gate, ten Devil Race soldiers at the Qi Condensation Stage stood guard in plain sight.

But Li Yan sensed several powerful presences within the city. From time to time, they swept the entire place with their Divine Sense.

That was why he had spent two extra spirit stones to rent a room with a defensive formation.

The Divine Sense patrolling the city did not force its way into such formations. It merely swept past them, making sure nothing serious had happened in Mingdu City.

Of course, Li Yan could have rented a room without a defensive formation and set one up himself. He doubted the patrols would force their way through it.

But that would draw the attention of anyone keeping watch, so Li Yan preferred to spend the extra spirit stones.

Mingdu City is only about sixty li across, yet in two hours, I've sensed eight exceptionally powerful presences.

Li Yan had not dared probe them closely, but he could tell they all belonged to Golden Core Realm cultivators.

Two of them possessed unusually vast and potent auras. To Li Yan, they felt like a pair of vicious beasts lying dormant.

Even without probing carefully, he could roughly tell that they were late-stage Golden Core Realm cultivators.

Li Yan had not expected a town only sixty li across to possibly harbor two such cultivators.

He simply did not know whether they were stationed in Mingdu City or were powerful cultivators who had settled there.

To mortals, a town forty li across was already vast. To a cultivator like Li Yan, crossing it was but a thought's work.

Even a Qi Condensation Stage cultivator could race around a town several dozen li across without taking long, and without using