Everyone was startled upon hearing this, then slowly breathed a sigh of relief and looked at him with curiosity. After all, in their eyes, someone as powerful as Ji Yunsheng—what on earth could he have encountered to get injured? Seeing their reaction, Ji Yunsheng smiled gently and said, "It's nothing. While performing a divination, I just ran into an Evil Spirit. The problem was that its cultivation wasn't low, and since I only had a soul projection at the time, it wasn't easy to deal with. I had no choice but to detonate that soul projection, blowing that Evil Spirit to pieces along with it."
Terror gripped the crowd upon hearing this. Ji Yunsheng smiled and said, "Alright, whatever else there is to discuss can wait. Let's continue the testing. I'm going back over there to check whether that thing was actually blown to smithereens." With that, he sat down cross-legged again, split off another soul projection, and traced his previous path back into the past. Seeing this, the others had no choice but to resume the testing and wait for Ji Yunsheng to return with answers.
Meanwhile, countless known universes were suddenly plunged into a heavy, oppressive atmosphere. Countless living beings felt it, though none of them understood what was happening. Only those powerful cultivators seemed to sense something, rushing one after another toward the River of Time. Some of them had already perceived something, feeling that the unusual disturbance was originating from the direction of…
Chapter 415