Chapter 936: Confirmation

Qin Sang turned his head and glanced at Bai.

“Since that person is waiting for you, how could you easily discover them? I knew there was a high chance you would come. When I felt the ground shaking, I came here to guard. He arrived shortly after you entered. This person set up a certain array outside. It's inevitable that flaws would appear while setting up the array, which allowed me to discover him. You can’t see his true form, but a spirit array can’t be flawless. Observe those few spots carefully...”

Bai’s voice transmission came through, guiding Qin Sang.

Qin Sang was very curious to know which Nascent Soul Ancestor was targeting him.

The Sky-Eyed Butterfly activated its divine ability, scanning the canyon back and forth.

He couldn't see anyone, but Qin Sang felt an unsettling presence.

“I can activate the ghost mist and collide with the demonic barrier, forcing him to show his true colors. Every time the ground shakes, it’s accompanied by instability in the demonic barrier. This is normal, so there’s no need to worry about alerting him,” Bai offered.

“No rush!”

Qin Sang thought for a moment, then called out. The Sky-Eyed Butterfly flew out from his Dantian, fluttering gracefully, and landed on his shoulder.

The ground shaking Bai referred to was likely the aftershocks from external attacks on the immortal array. The Seven Kills Hall was sealed by the immortal array, so when the array was turbulent, the inside would also be affected.

Seeing the Sky-Eyed Butterfly appear, Bai was somewhat lost in thought. This fellow actually hid a third-transformation spirit insect.

"No wonder I lost."

Bai mused silently, and most of the resentment in his heart inexplicably dissipated.

After summoning the Sky-Eyed Butterfly, Qin Sang ordered his doppelganger and the Twin-Headed Hou to watch Bai. He then slowly closed his eyes, communicating with the Sky-Eyed Butterfly with his spiritual sense, guiding his divine consciousness into the butterfly.

This was a secret shamanic technique, used in conjunction with a life-bound insect Gu.

When master and Gu worm combine their efforts to unleash a divine ability, its power can be temporarily enhanced. The forbidden secret technique the youth surnamed Fang used before his death was also of this type, but the secret technique Qin Sang was using now was much gentler, and naturally, its power wasn’t comparable to a forbidden secret technique.

Using this secret technique would greatly consume the user’s divine consciousness, and Qin Sang wouldn’t be able to sustain it for long.

The Sky-Eyed Butterfly remained on Qin Sang’s shoulder, its wings spread open, facing the canyon.

After several transformations and mutations, the patterns on the Sky-Eyed Butterfly’s wings were exceptionally beautiful. The eye-like Sky-Eye markings were aesthetically pleasing, completely devoid of any eerie feeling.

The Sky-Eye patterns resembled real eyes, their gaze seemingly able to shift.

No matter where one stood, there was an illusion of being watched by the Sky-Eye.

Qin Sang’s divine consciousness merged into the Sky-Eyed Butterfly’s body, together activating the Sky-Eye divine ability.

The patterns on the butterfly’s wings lit up one after another, becoming even more captivating and delightful to behold. Light flowed continuously towards the central Sky-Eye, instantly turning it radiant and dazzling.

The Sky-Eyed Butterfly’s wings trembled softly, making one worry if its delicate and fragile body could withstand the strain and avoid injury.

At that moment, the ‘eyeball’ within the Sky-Eye actually rotated, becoming a true eye, staring intently at the canyon beyond the demonic flames.

Silently and imperceptibly, the Sky-Eye scanned the canyon inch by inch.

After a moment of contemplation, Qin Sang signaled Bai, “Thirty percent power!”

Bai made no visible movement, but the ghost mist behind them abruptly pressed down towards the ground. Then, the ground gently trembled, the demonic flames hovering at the canyon entrance rippled slightly, releasing a bit of demonic flame power. A trace of fluctuation also appeared in the ancient restrictions on the rock wall, but it quickly returned to normal.

At the same time, Qin Sang helped the Sky-Eyed Butterfly fully activate its Sky-Eye divine ability.

The instant the demonic barrier fluctuated, Qin Sang’s expression shifted slightly, and a solemn look appeared on his face.

At the canyon entrance, on a spot of the rock wall, the texture was hard and fine like iron and stone, covered with ancient restrictions. Other than that, it appeared completely empty.

This was one of the places Bai had pointed out.

However, the Sky-Eyed Butterfly detected a strange fluctuation there. The fluctuation was very subtle, like the fleeting phantom of a square jade tablet. If Qin Sang hadn’t received Bai’s warning, he wouldn’t have noticed such a slight anomaly.

Rare insects are precious because their life-bound divine abilities far surpass those of ordinary spirit insects, granting them the ability to transcend cultivation levels. If the Sky-Eyed Butterfly were to break through to the late Third Transformation, it could even see through a Nascent Soul Ancestor’s concealment techniques.

With Qin Sang’s assistance, the Sky-Eyed Butterfly’s divine ability greatly increased, no less than that of a late Third Transformation stage.

If someone truly was waiting to ambush him, only a Nascent Soul Ancestor could conceal themselves so perfectly. Their cultivation might even be higher than he anticipated!

Qin Sang’s heart suddenly sank.

A moment later, everything returned to normal.

At the canyon entrance, a figure sat cross-legged in the shadows, like an old monk in meditation. It was precisely Old Demon Mou, who had slipped away by deception.

He rushed non-stop to the Purple Mist Dead Zone. In the canyon, he found traces, indicating that the person he was looking for had once again passed through the demonic flame blockade and entered that unknown ghostly area.

Old Demon Mou was both surprised and delighted.

If he had moved a little faster, he might have captured his target directly. Now, he could only wait outside for them to emerge.

Just now, Old Demon Mou had been observing the other Nascent Soul cultivators and hadn’t found any unusual movements from them. This indicated that the one who had passed through the demonic flames into the ghostly area was most likely a Core Formation cultivator.

Unless some old fellow, like him, had used a method to escape and arrived early.

Old Demon Mou felt somewhat uncertain.

These were demonic flames that even he and those late Nascent Soul grand cultivators feared. Since ancient times, no one had ever entered the ghostly area. For a mere Core Formation cultivator to achieve this was nothing short of a fantastical tale.

To be safe, he had set up a spirit array in the canyon, preparing to deliver a heavy blow when the other party emerged.

Noticing the subtle fluctuation of the demonic barrier, Old Demon Mou raised his eyelids, shifted his gaze, and scanned the demonic flames and the ghostly area, finding no abnormalities.

By this time, Qin Sang and Bai had already retreated back into the depths of the ghost mist.

“It seems you’ve found something! You don’t have to find his true form to believe me now, do you?”

Bai, occupying the body of the Flying Yaksha, curled his lips into a smile.

In this eerie ghostly area, his smile was chilling.

“That’s enough!”

Qin Sang’s expression was distant, lost in thought. He then stared into Bai’s eyes and said, “It’s certain that there was nothing unusual when I came in. It’s clear that you and the resentful souls are terrified of the demonic flames, and the demonic barrier is specifically aimed at you! It’s impossible for him to be tampering with things outside the ghostly area, otherwise he would have left long ago. Such an unnecessary move would only alert him, making my situation even more dangerous.”

A look of satisfaction appeared on Bai’s face. “It seems you’re a clever person too. Now we can discuss our transaction.”

“Wait!”

Qin Sang raised a hand. “This person couldn’t have entered with me; the problem must be here! You’ve been trapped in this ghostly area all this time, so this shouldn’t be the first time you’ve seen him, right? What else do you know? What’s his cultivation level?”

“That’s right, this isn’t the first time this person has appeared. He came once more shortly after you left last time. As for his strength…”

Bai fell into contemplation, a solemn expression on his face. “Among those who have appeared before and whom I detected, the strongest were no more than late Nascent Soul cultivators. He revealed his aura once, and he was only slightly weaker than a late Nascent Soul cultivator.”

“Slightly weaker than a late Nascent Soul…”

Qin Sang was startled by the news.

This matched his earlier judgment: at least a mid-Nascent Soul master!