The higher cultivators' will released its Spiritual Sense to investigate, only to find it even stranger.
Every space within the Danyuan Secret Realm had been conceived by the Secret Realm's pill spirit itself. No matter what evolutions or mutations arose during their development, each would ultimately retain within it a trace of Pill-Breath Spiritual Resonance.
Yet this sea of blood beneath heavenly light, wrong no matter how one looked at it, bore not the slightest trace of Pill-Breath Spiritual Resonance. It did not even seem to be within the Danyuan Secret Realm.
"There was no error in the execution of the technique, nor was there anything unusual in the flow of spatial power. Then the problem may have arisen before the technique was enacted."
The Treading-Void Split Soul that had presided over this spatial-folding technique swiftly reviewed everything and reached a conclusion.
"Hm? You mean that while we were battling that female cultivator just now, someone else had been watching all along? That person tampered with something in secret?"
Another Treading-Void Split Soul said doubtfully, "But how could a lower-realm cultivator evade our detection? Along the way, whether True Intent or Insight Mystery, none escaped our senses. Besides, that female cultivator was no ordinary person. She must have possessed tools for detection herself. She went on at length about Azure Waves secrets, even directly revealing the identities of Luo Qianchou and Nangong Jinghe. How could she have allowed someone to watch? Could it have been an immortal?"
His doubts were not without reason. After all, between them and Xiao Yao, one was the manifestation of a higher cultivator's will in this world, while the other was a person blessed with Azure Waves' supreme fortune and laws.
If there truly had been a third party watching their battle just now, that