When bird songs from the north pierced the morning mist, the tendons on the back of Ye Fan's hand gripping his sword tightened abruptly. Inside his Inner World, the leaves of the golden tree were reversing at a speed visible to the naked eye, every vein on the leaves glowing with a dazzling golden light—this was the most violent early warning from the Heavenly Dao he had experienced since his rebirth.
"Zhaoyue." Without looking back, his voice sank as if weighed down by dark iron, "With your Taichu Sword Canon, how many miles away can you sense vital energy?"
Lin Zhaoyue's fingertips brushed across the sword hilt, and the scabbard let out a crisp hum. She closed her eyes for a moment, and when she opened them again, fine starlight floated in her pupils: "There is the stench of rotting corpses thirty miles away, mixed with... what feels like the aura of battle puppets sacrificed in blood." Before her voice faded, the seven sword tassels at her waist suddenly stood on end one by one, "No, the main vital energy is fifty miles away, heavier than any Void Breaking Realm master we've seen before—it could be the Inquiry Realm."
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