Seeing Gu Yuncheng's expression, Ling Luoyi felt a little embarrassed and changed the subject. "Alright, let's not talk about these things. Let's go ask this Shura traitor first. Maybe he'll know something."
"Okay." While their first meeting was worth remembering, their actual first meeting was best left unsaid.
Ling Luoyi brought Gu Yuncheng into a very small space. She placed the 'fish' she had captured earlier inside. Because the space was small, only about a hundred square meters, Ling Luoyi could find the Shura's concealment technique even in such a confined area.
As expected, after the two entered, they didn't see the Shura. The space was in full view, with only the ground beneath their feet and the sky above, identical to the outside world. Everything else was absent.
Seeing the empty room, Ling Luoyi and Gu Yuncheng exchanged a glance, seeing no surprise in each other's eyes.
Ling Luoyi extended her divine sense. This small space was created by her. She hadn't used it much since, but it was still connected to her, and she knew the situation within.
After her divine sense covered the entire space, Ling Luoyi meticulously compared it with her memory of the original space. At first glance, there were no changes, but in a certain corner, something felt slightly off.
Found it.
Ling Luoyi's lips curved upwards. She felt the other party's intent to escape upon realizing they had been discovered and let out a disdainful snort.
The Shura man, knowing he had been found, tried to move. But before he could make any move, he felt a pressure several times stronger than his own firmly pressing down on him, leaving him with no escape.
The man looked at Ling Luoyi, who was staring at him with keen interest, in terror. He raised his right hand, forming it into a claw. The man beside Ling Luoyi watched her with unblinking eyes, a smile on his lips, filled with doting affection.
The man had seen Ling Luoyi before and knew she was the Human Race's Sacred Maiden of War. However, he had never seen Gu Yuncheng. At this moment, he found Gu Yuncheng incredibly mysterious and unapproachable.
Recalling a piece of news circulating throughout the Six Realms, the man could roughly guess who Gu Yuncheng was. With the Sacred Maiden of War of the Human Race present, he wasn't surprised that that person would also appear here.
While the man was lost in thought, he suddenly felt the suppressing force intensify. His heart filled with dread. How could her strength have increased so much in such a short time?!
The first time the man saw Ling Luoyi, she hadn't yet been chosen as the Sacred Maiden of War. At that time, it was only because Ling Luoyi, at such a young age, possessed a cultivation level far beyond her years that he had taken a deeper impression of her. Later, after seeing the portrait of the Human Race's Sacred Maiden of War from his master, he realized that Ling Luoyi was the Sacred Maiden of War for this generation of the Human Race. He hadn't seen her since.
It had been almost four years since their first meeting, and he never expected that the little girl who was weaker than him back then was now several times stronger.
Seeing that the man still hadn't emerged, Ling Luoyi increased the pressure again.
The man was so suppressed that he couldn't move, and his dantian had been sealed by Ling Luoyi. He was now just an ordinary Shura, completely unable to resist.
Suddenly, a sound like shattering porcelain, a crackling noise, reached the man's ears. He looked over at the sound and was terrified to find that the barrier around him, which could shield him from anyone, was covered in cracks, and the cracks were still increasing.
She could actually shatter the Shura race's protective barrier!
The Shura race's protective barrier was also their concealment technique. When used, it formed a layer of barrier around oneself. It sounded similar to a formation, but formations could be detected by spiritual power, divine sense, and so on, like a wall. As long as one encountered it, no matter how hidden, it would be discovered.
However, the Shura race's protective barrier was different. The barrier could not be detected by anything, and even if touched from the outside, there would be no sensation, as if nothing were there. Furthermore, it could be moved at any time, remaining undiscovered.
Because of this characteristic, it was indeed difficult to find someone in the vast expanse of the Ancient Spirit Continent. Even with Ling Luoyi's strong divine sense, she couldn't cover the entire continent, especially since the barrier couldn't be detected by divine sense.
In this small space, Ling Luoyi could find him not by using her divine sense to probe the barrier, but by detecting where things felt out of place within the space.
As for shattering his protective barrier, the Shura race's protective barrier could withstand attacks three levels higher than the user's cultivation. However, Ling Luoyi's cultivation was more than three levels higher than the man's, so shattering the barrier was naturally not difficult.
The Shura race's protective barrier was identical to the surrounding scenery. Before the cracks appeared, it was difficult to detect. But now, Ling Luoyi and Gu Yuncheng watched as cracks slowly crawled across a corner of the space that had been perfectly fine, without sensing any fluctuation in the space's spiritual energy. It was clear that this was not a problem with Ling Luoyi's space.
Finally, with too many cracks on the barrier, fragments of the barrier fell off, revealing the Shura man hidden within. At this moment, the man was filled with shock, looking at Ling Luoyi as if she were the natural enemy of the Shura race.
"So that's how it is."
As the barrier fragments fell, the barrier began to disappear. Gu Yuncheng watched carefully and finally understood the essence of the Shura's concealment technique. However, even with this knowledge, Gu Yuncheng had no absolute way to counter it, only able to use it within a small range. Once the range became too large, it was still ineffective.
Ling Luoyi knew this as well and patted his arm reassuringly.
Each race had its own innate divine abilities. This could be considered a talent of the Shura race.
As soon as the man appeared, before he could recover from his shock, he felt his neck being gripped. Looking up, Ling Luoyi and Gu Yuncheng were still standing in place, unmoving.
Ling Luoyi's right hand formed a claw, and surging spiritual energy poured from her hand, solidifying around the man's neck and slowly pulling him closer.
Drawing him near, Ling Luoyi's icy voice echoed in the small space.
"Don't think about escaping, and don't think about hiding again. You can't get out of here without a key. Understand?"
Ling Luoyi was smiling, but her voice was devoid of emotion, merely stating a fact.
With a simple sentence, the man felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him, his legs going weak. If Ling Luoyi hadn't been holding his neck, he might have truly knelt.
Ling Luoyi withdrew her spiritual energy, and the man was thrown to the ground. Relying on his robust physical constitution, he was unharmed.
Casually taking out two chairs, Ling Luoyi pulled Gu Yuncheng down to sit and leisurely looked at the man, who had collapsed on the ground from exhaustion, and slowly began, "I have a few questions for you. It's up to you whether you answer them."
The man looked at Ling Luoyi with resignation, showing no intention of responding.
Ling Luoyi didn't care about his attitude and said, "Your name is Xuan He, right?"
Hearing this, the man was somewhat surprised. He was certain Ling Luoyi had never met him, nor had they had any interaction. How could Ling Luoyi know his name?
Xuan He had initially thought Ling Luoyi attacked him because he had led people to try and destroy the Ling family. But that didn't seem right either. If that were the case, she wouldn't have captured him alive; she would have killed him directly. Now, it seemed there was a reason he didn't know.
Ling Luoyi saw his confusion and said, "Are you wondering how I know your name? And why I captured you alive?"
Xuan He was even more astonished. Did this Sacred Maiden of War of the Human Race also read minds?
Seeing Xuan He's reaction, Ling Luoyi kindly explained, "There's actually no special reason. Your King asked me to. He also told me your name."
What?!
The King had entrusted this matter to his own race!
Was the King insane?!