In a forest outside the city, Qin Yu opened his eyes, his face weary. As he thought, this sort of method of forcibly controlling another person’s body couldn’t be used casually. He had specifically chosen a Golden Core body cultivator whose soul cultivation was low, yet his losses had been terrifying. If it were any other cultivator they wouldn’t have been able to last.

Moreover, the camouflage plan he especially came up with didn’t seem to have any use at all. Heavenseek Pavilion had somehow managed to recognize his identity.

It was obvious that his two questions had given him away. Or to be more precise, when he asked how to break through to Nascent Soul with more than one Golden Core. This was the question that had given him away. Heavenseek Pavilion seemed to be paying attention to him, otherwise, with the countless cultivators they received each year, how could they place so much effort on him?

Just what was their end goal?

Qin Yu’s complexion darkened as he thought of the young man who had suddenly appeared afterwards. Although this person had a warm and gentle personality, one that was extremely affable and even somewhat intimate, Qin Yu inexplicably felt a sense of fear and apprehension. In particular, that young man’s eyes seemed to have some strange strength that peered into the...