At first, Xun did not believe that with his mastery of the Secret Technique, he couldn't find Li Zhirui's whereabouts, so he incessantly pushed his mana to activate the technique.
Yet no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't pinpoint Li Zhirui's position, as if the man had vanished from the world entirely.
"Senior Brother, I can't detect his presence." Only after consuming most of his mana did Xun calm down, his face full of disbelief and frustration as he spoke.
Bai Ding Mountain furrowed his brow and questioned angrily, "How is that possible?! He was repeatedly using Divine Power earlier, and the surroundings were brimming with his aura. And now you tell me you can't find him?"
"Exactly, it's as if he disappeared into thin air, otherwise it wouldn't make sense that he could evade the tracking of the Secret Technique." If possible, Xun wouldn't have wanted to admit his own inadequacy — it was an outright denial of his years of cultivation efforts.
