Chapter 153: The Cloaked Figure With The Blood Red Eyes
Li Jie stood perfectly still, his eyes fixed on the cloaked figure perched atop the Ancestor's Tree.
Six centuries of cultivation had taught him many things, but perhaps the most important lesson was this: when faced with something impossible, the first step was to accept that it was, in fact, possible.
And what he saw before him was very, very impossible.
The figure made no threatening moves, no dramatic gestures. They simply... existed, their presence alone enough to make the air feel thick and heavy. Their blood-red eyes gleamed from beneath their hood, fixed on Li Jie with an intensity that made his centuries of cultivation feel like a child's first steps.
Li Jie extended his spiritual sense carefully, probing the space around the figure. He knew what he would find – or rather, what he wouldn't find – but old habits died hard. As expected, there was nothing. Not even a whisper of rouqi.
Only those of significantly higher cultivation could completely mask their energy from those below them. It was a simple matter of control – like how Li Jie himself could become completely undetectable to Tier 1 cultivators when he wished. But to be completely invisible to someone at his level, half a step into Tier 3..., and that wasn’t even the worst of it, there was the flying.
Li Jie's eyes narrowed as he remembered how the figure had descended down from the heavens. Flight wasn't just a matter of having enough power – it required a fundamental understanding of how to manipulate the world's energy fields, how to weave rouqi into patterns that could defy gravity itself. An understanding one wouldn’t be able to gain in the lower tiers.
Even Tier 4 cultivators couldn't achieve true flight. They could leap incredible distances, could even glide for short periods, but sustained flight? That required Tier 5 cultivation at minimum. And no one had reached that level since...
"Impossible," he whispered, the word escaping before he could stop it.