Seeing Daoist Qingyu guard against him so warily, Tianxingzi's expression grew even more astonished.
"Yurong? Wasn't she killed by you?"
"Didn't you encounter her in the outer valley first, kill her, and then go find Xinghe?"
Tianxingzi's face was filled with uncertainty. At the core of the formation just now, he had swept the area with his Divine Sense once more and discovered that Yurong's aura had vanished. Only then had he dared to come out.
"Could she have hidden herself, or escaped?"
For a moment, a bad feeling rose within him. If a Golden Core Realm cultivator had escaped, there would be a massive loophole in all the plans he had just laid out to Qingyu.
Watching the shock flash across Tianxingzi's face, Qingyu could tell it was not an act. He immediately felt that something was wrong as well.
"Yurong came too? Aside from Xue Qianzong and Ningying, I only saw around a hundred low-level disciples from the four sects."
"Where was Yurong's shadow? Could she have sensed danger and left?"
"That was impossible. How could her Divine Sense possibly surpass mine? There was no way she could have sensed my arrival beforehand."
As he spoke, Qingyu spread his Divine Sense outward without the slightest restraint. Tianxingzi was still frowning in thought when he murmured,
"But about fifteen breaths before you arrived, I truly saw her pursuing and killing disciples from my valley..."
At this point, he suddenly froze. Then he swiftly swept his Divine Sense toward a certain location. Both of them began searching over a vast area.
A moment later, Qingyu was the first to withdraw his Divine Sense.
"Old ghost, there really are traces of a Golden Core Realm cultivator casting spells in the outer valley, and they lead all the way toward the inner