After the Skyscraping Sword Venerable had left, Jian Chen stood where he was and shut his eyes. A dazzling imprint shone on his forehead. Jian Chen rapidly absorbed the information it contained.

    This imprint contained the small technique that the Skyscraping Sword Venerable had passed onto Jian Chen!

    A while later, the imprint vanished, as all the information inside had been completely absorbed by Jian Chen.

    Jian Chen shut his eyes slowly. In such a short amount of time, he had already grasped the technique from the Skyscraping Sword Venerable completely.

    Suddenly, Jian Chen’s eyes shone. He formed a seal with one hand and began using the secret technique that he had just learnt.

    As soon as he used the secret technique, Jian Chen felt a strange connection develop between his consciousness and the spiritual Qi within ten thousand kilometres of him. With his thoughts, the spiritual Qi in that range all began to gather together, turning into a huge swirl of spiritual Qi around Jian Chen.

    Shortly afterwards, with another thought, the spiritual Qi from a range of ten thousand kilometres completely vanished once again in a split second as if it had all been repulsed, without leaving a single wisp behind.

    At that moment, there was not a single wisp of spiritual Qi left within ten thousand kilometres of Jian Chen.

    “Hmm?” Suddenly, Jian Chen seemed to discover something. A hint of surprise and joy immediately appeared in his eyes. As he controlled his mind, the spiritual Qi began to surge again.@@@@

    Jian Chen shut his eyes and maintained his control over the spiritual Qi, but very soon, he began to smile resplendently.

    “In the beginning, I was still very doubtful over why the Skyscraping Sword Venerable would give me this useless and unnecessary technique. Turns out he had his own intentions.”

    “In the Skyscraping World, the senses of everyone’s souls are suppressed by formations, so they''re all limited to a range of a hundred kilometres. With this technique from the Skyscraping Sword Venerable, the senses of my soul are still constrained, but I can use the spiritual Qi as my eyes and sense everything in the surroundings through my control over spiritual Qi.”

    Jian Chen''s smile gradually deepened. “This way, I''ll always be ahead of everyone in the Skyscraping World. I can always take them by surprise.”

    “Others can’t sense me, while I can observe their every move from several thousand kilometres away...”

    “A Ninth Heavenly Layer Immortal Emperor. Do I kill him or not?” Jian Chen murmured to himself in thought before letting out a gentle sigh. “So be it. The Spiritual Fruit of Sword Nurturing has not been exposed yet. Let''s see if I can draw him away.”

    Jian Chen hid himself with the Divine Armour of Heavenflight and directly flew towards the Immortal Emperor. A few hundred kilometres away from the Immortal Emperor, he took a turn down a fork in the road.

    After travelling around a hundred kilometres, he stopped. With a flip of his hand, he took out a low grade God Tier heavenly resource in his possession and carefully planted it in the ground, hiding all of his traces.

    At this moment, the Immortal Emperor was gradually approaching him. With each step he took, he could traverse a hundred kilometres. Whenever he advanced, he would pause for a moment, searching the surroundings carefully with the senses of his soul.

    Very soon, he arrived at the fork. Before him were two paths that led off in different directions.

    But right when he hesitated over which path to take, he seemed to sense something. His expression changed as joy flooded his face. He chose the same path as Jian Chen without any hesitation.

    Very soon, he discovered a heavenly resource a hundred kilometres away. Despite not being particularly impressive at only low grade God Tier, it was still a harvest.

    Right when he picked the heavenly resource, he sniffed the air heavily and seemed to sense something else. After advancing another two hundred kilometres, he discovered a second heavenly resource.

    “My luck is not bad. I actually discovered two heavenly resources one after another. It’s just a pity that their quality is a little low. Whatever, at least it’s better than nothing,” the Immortal Emperor muttered to himself. He did not change directions, following the path beneath his feet. In the end, after travelling another two hundred kilometres, he discovered a third heavenly resource.

    And it was also a low grade God Tier heavenly resource this time!

    Just like that, Jian Chen set down several heavenly resources in front of the Immortal Emperor and managed to lure him further and further away.

    Only when the Immortal Emperor gradually travelled away did Jian Chen expose himself again. He gazed at the figure that was already several thousand kilometres away, about to leave the range of spiritual Qi he could control. He murmured to himself, “I think I have an impression of this person from outside earlier. He’s from a peak organisation.”

    “Though, if I can use a few heavenly resources that aren’t particularly valuable to avoid a feud with peak organisations, it’s all worth it.”