Chapter 587: Go

Chapter 587: Go

Hui dropped into the trees, falling beneath the canopy. The second he was out of sight, he circulated his phoenix qi. His entire body burst into flames, as death qi and dying flesh burned away, then cycled to life qi and healed. Renewed and reinvigorated, Hui tossed his hair and looked around. Enormous trunks stood all around him, strong enough to lift the heavens from where he stood beside them. Small, bushy undergrowth and gnarled vines twisted as they fought for the dappled light that reached this low. High above, thick leaves left everything beneath in a perpetual semi-twilight.

Hui took a deep breath, breathing in clear, wood-elemental-qi-scented air.

Right. Now, to find our children

He drew out the small remaining piece of incense and lit it with a spark of phoenix fire. A gentle pale fog emanated from it, wrapping around Hui.

A strange sense of freedom surrounded Hui. Pressure lifted off his body. The world dislocated from him, and he stood slightly askew from it, watching it from a aloof perspective.

Is that what it feels like to be disconnected from karma?

This it shouldnt be possible. The very existence of this incense, especially at a pre-Immortal level, must be due to the breakdown of the Heavenly Dao. As the Underworld broke down and the Heavens disregarded the mortal world, naturally, it would become easier for mortal cultivators to interfere with karma. Although Bai Xue and Li Xiang have never left the Southern Sect conference, theyve never seen a karmic technique like this before, either.

Especially Bai Xue, who has contacts outside of the Southern Sect Conference. If she hasnt seen a karmic technique like this before it doesnt mean it didnt exist. Certainly, there are heavens beyond heavens, experts beyond experts, techniques beyond techniques. It isnt guaranteed to be new if Bai Xue has never seen it, but it does lean toward being new.

But Im not here to figure out where this incense came from, or how the principles of the world allowed it to be made.

Im here to find my children.

He closed his eyes, reaching out around him. As he reached, a new sensation tingled at the borders of his perception. Hui frowned and touched it, sending his qi into it. His sensations expanded the second he touched it. Instantly, he perceived the world for dozens of meters in all directions, even behind trees and out of his direct line of sight.

Warmth. Comfort. Home. Hunger. Light.

Putting a hand to his chin thoughtfully, Hui squinted. Is this or rather, are these what the forest and the creatures within it are feeling? Its something like when my one clone was it Wildman? Sectgoer?could talk to trees due to the inheritance theyd received from the lotus clone technique, but different. Rather than speaking to them, Im merely observing from afar. Sensing the general emotions and sensations of the beings around me. It almost does make me feel like a minor god. I wonder if thats why its called divine sense?

Hmm, but if thats the case my job just got much easier.

Listening to the emotions of the creatures around him, Hui continued to sweep his sense through the forest. Abruptly, one thought lit up in his head.

New. Foreign. Out of place. Strange.

Hui focused on that thought and chased it down, focusing his divine sense into a ray. For a brief moment, he saw a spider, crawling along the forest floor. Then his divine sense ray landed on it, and the spider toppled over, stunned.

Confused, Hui stared for a moment, then belatedly spread his divine sense again. Thats right. I almost forgot. Divine sense can be used as a psychic stun attack. I didnt mean to harm the spider, but even so, condensing my divine sense to such an extreme well. I should have expected that. He carefully retracted his divine sense around the spider, then pushed on.

Stakes in the ground. Thin threads connecting one to another. A strange upwelling of qi from below.

Huis eyes flashed open. Ive found it!

As he retracted his divine sense, another human mind brushed against his. Hui continued to retract, but his eyes narrowed. And it seems so have those villains. I cant let them get there first.

Leaping up from the ground, he flew forth at top speed, hurtling toward the teleportation formation, snubbing out the very last of the karmic incense as he went.