Is That A Wisp?

Everyone looked at Little Arty at the same time.

"What trick?"

Little Arty laughed before saying.

"Actually, it is very simple. We just need to move to the next Light Pillar and wait for them to come. I'm monitoring them, and I can tell that they can only check each floor twice. From the looks of that girl in their group, the device's level they are using to look for me is much higher than what they could support."

"Most likely, it is a Divinity Level one. But that is comprehensible. I'm already a god-level equipment, so I'm impressed that a Divinity Level one can even feel my presence. Sure enough, the backlash after using it is not easy to resist. So they are checking the same floor when they arrive and a few days later when they are about to leave it."

"That being said, we just need to wait for them to teleport to this floor while we teleport to the next one. Once they do the search on this floor, I would be gone to the next already. They won't find anything and will move down again, so they will pass by us without even noticing."

Krune and the others couldn't help but laugh after hearing that. Indeed, that was a very effective method. 

"Alright, let's follow Little Arty's plan."

Everyone nodded. Soon after, Krune's group began to make their way to the next Light Pillar. Somewhere close to it, Feifei built a concealing formation, and they started to wait. Since there was nothing better to do, they simply cultivated during this time.

The days passed in a flash when finally, Hanan Frunkan's group arrived at the Light Pillar that could bring them to the 37th floor. Little Arty, of course, was keeping a close eye on them.

"Well, wait for a second. They are about to search for me with that box again."

Back on Hanan Frunkan's side, Morjin, one of his companions, was doing the search.

"Argh..."

His face went pale, but he soon finished the search. After taking a healing pill, he looked at everyone before saying.

"It is not on this floor either. Are you sure this thing works? Why would the guy who took the Holy Land's Artifact descend so much?"

Julie, who had a terrible complexion, could only answer.

"I don't know, but this is the only way we have at the moment. I won't deny, perhaps the Artifact hasn't been there for a long time already. Maybe whoever took it broke through into the Divine View Realm and was teleported outside with it. There are many possibilities, but we can only do what we can now, which is looking for it."

Hanan nodded.

"Julie is right. Let's keep going down. If we reach the first floor and don't find anything, then we can only contact the clan head and see what he has to say."

Everyone agreed with Hanan, and they immediately passed through the Light Pillar once more.

Back on Krune's side, Little Arty also gave the order.

"We can go up now."

Krune and everyone sent their Spiritual Energies into the light pillar, quickly disappearing as well. As Hanan's Group went down, Krune's group went up, swapping their floors.

"Little Arty, how is it?"

"Give me a second, I'm looking at them. It seems like that girl in their group is once again doing the search now."

On Hanan's side, Julie vomited blood, but still finished the search. Hanan and her companions couldn't help but feel dejected every time they saw that.

"There is no need for you guys to feel like that for me. I'm doing it because I want to. Anyway, the search returned no results, either."

Little Arty saw that, but because Julie used a Divine Sense message, he didn't know whether she had found something.

"Alright, we should move to the next Light Pillar. They finished their search once more, so if they found something, they will most likely come up. If that happens, we need to be ready to move."

Krune and the others agreed with Little Arty. But in the end, there was no need to be worried since a few days later, Hanan's group went down once more.

"It seems like it worked."

Krune's group let out a sigh of relief.

"Alright, we should focus on our cultivation once more. For the next few days, let's stay together too. In case they decide to come up again, Little Arty will be able to tell all of us. If not, we can go back to our previous cultivation schedule."

Hanan's group already arrived on the 30th floor a few days later, but they still found nothing. Without any other choice, they could only keep going down. In the end, they didn't go up anymore. 

With that out of the way, Krune's group began to do what they did before, separating and going in different directions. Of course, Little Arty showed them where they could gather once more as always.

Time passed, and a few months quickly went by. Hanan's group began to take even longer to check each floor since Julie reached a point where she couldn't use their search equipment anymore. That being said, they could only sit down and spend a few days to recover before doing the search again.

However, they finally arrived at the first floor after so long. On their way here, Little Arty paid attention to see if they wouldn't detect Fie as well. But by its looks, their equipment could only find his presence, not his master's.

Hanan's group didn't find anything, so they could only contact the Frunkan Clan Head again. Of course, before that, they used the same method that they did when they reached him for the first time. So even Little Arty couldn't see or hear anything.

Soon, the white fog inside the transparent orb took the form of a head as it looked at Hanan and the others.

"How was it?"

Hanan took a deep breath.

"Reporting to Clan Head, it goes like this..."

As Hanan explained the situation, the complexion of the man in the orb became worse. Finally, Hanan finished saying that they verified each and every floor, but found nothing as well.

"How is that possible? No one should know about the Holy Land's Artifact! It must be in there, it must!"

Hanan then asked the man.

"Clan Head. Could it be that whoever took it broke through into the Divine View Realm to be teleported outside? After all, the Holy Land doesn't allow anyone above the Divine Path Realm to stay inside. This would be a sure-fire method to bring the Artifact outside, no?"

However, the Clan Head immediately shook his head.

"That is impossible. The Holy Land and the Artifact could be said to be one with each other. If someone really brought it away, the Holy Land would most likely break apart. But I can guarantee that the Holy Land is still in the same place."

The man didn't know that the Holy Land's transformation was so that it could be sent into Little Arty's body, though.

Hanan nodded.

"In that case, what does Clan Head suggest? We are in a blind run here at the moment. The search box didn't locate it anywhere at all."

Just as the Clan Head was about to talk, something unexpected happened. Suddenly, the entire Holy Land began to tremble once more!

"What is happening?"

Hanan looked at Tannin Frunkan before asking.

"Tannin, go outside and check it. See if anyone is attacking us."

Tannin nodded and immediately rushed out of their hiding place. However, it took only one minute for him to come back.

"That wasn't it. As far as my Divine Sense can see, all the land is trembling. It is just like 5 years ago."

Hanan narrowed his eyes.

"Could it be..."

Back on Krune's side, they are staying close to a light pillar. Their plan was to go up to the 42nd floor, where the Godly Energy is stronger. But now that the Holy Land began to tremble again, they immediately discarded this idea. However, what really caught Krune's group attention was the Light Pillar instead.

*Crack, crack, crack!*

Several fractures started to appear on it. But it wasn't the only one. All the Light Pillars of the Holy Land began to crack as well. The process continued for a few minutes until finally...

*Shatter!*

The Light Pillars began to break apart! The entire structure then fell down on the ground. All the cultivators and demon beasts who saw that were worried about what was happening.

Of course, Little Arty immediately understood it.

"As expected, the first time wasn't the last."

Everyone looked at him, waiting for an explanation.

"The first phase of the Holy Land transformation was to gather the random Dimensional Realm of the first floors together. Now it seems like the Holy Land is entering the next step of this transformation, which means that all 50 levels are going to become a single gigantic one."

Krune and the others were taken aback.

"What about Godly Energy? Wouldn't it crush everyone who can't resist its pressure?"

"No. Have you noticed that the closer you were to a Light Pillar, the stronger the Godly Energy flow was? After all the realms fuse together, the same thing will happen. The closer you are to the center, the stronger the energy will be. So as long as you move away, you should be fine. The problem is, we won't be able to use that trick anymore."

Krune immediately understood that Little Arty was talking about his pursues.

"It seems like we will need to think about another counter-measure."