After ten minutes, Li Ming was still lying on the grassy lawn as she took deep breaths to calm herself down.

For a moment she had almost lost her control on her magical powers which were ready to shot out of her.

"Did you find anything?" Snowy asked when he saw Li Ming settling herself in a sitting position on the ground.

She looked anything but the definition of beautiful and perfect at that moment. Her hair was messy as they fell around her face in tangles, her face and body were covered in sweat, and her dirty dress was sticking to her body. A few specks of grass was also got tangled in her hair.

"It was the same dark power that I found in the world of my dreams." Li Ming replied as she tried to clean the sweat off her face with a handkerchief.

"And...?" Snowy knew that there was more that Li Ming wanted to tell, she was just not sure how to explain what she had found out.

When she had felt that slightest brush of the dark powers outside the auction house, she just assumed that she was imagining things but then during the auction, she again felt the presence of the dark powers.

It was trying to find something or someone. Was it there for some kind of item that was going to be auctioned or was it tailing her?

She couldn't let go of such a chance to find out more about that dark power and its secrets.

That's why after making sure that she was hidden from the rest of the world in her protection shield, she let out a very small portion of her energy and let it flow through the auction house.

This was a new trick that she learned about recently. The energy was so low that most of the people, no matter how powerful they were, won't be able to feel it.

Her target was the black power and just as she planned it took her bait the moment it felt the positive essence of her energy.

What Li Ming didn't know was that though her plan of keeping her energy hidden from the other cultivators in the auction house did actually worked, however, there were two Immortals present in the auction house who couldn't be deceived by such tricks.

Their thousands of years of cultivation and experience almost made them invincible, almost!

The two Immortals not only felt the presence of the euphoric energy that suddenly appeared in the auction house and then disappeared but they also felt the presence of the dark power that was about to enter into their private room but unexpectedly it changed its route and left.

The two Immortals looked at each other for a second, contemplating whether to follow the energies or not.

After a few seconds of silence, the man in the golden brocade clothes said, "I don't want to leave this auction house without finding out what pulled me here."

At his words, two golden shadows disappeared from the room as they trailed after the two energies.

Hei Long nodded his head as he settled down on his seat.

His mind was in chaos as he felt so many emotions and questions arising.

His mind, without his consent, went towards the lilac girl. This was the second time in the past seven years when the dark mist had crossed the threshold of the Demon realm. The first one was when it attacked Li Ming in the Xiao Tiantang when she was in the Dongji village and the second one just happened.

He was trying to find out the reason behind the black mist attacking the lilac girl as it went far enough to cross the boundaries of the Demon Realm.

It wasn't like he was worried about that girl but because the black mist was related to his Demon Realm and he wanted to open its

every secret.

The presence of that mist in the Wang Empire was questionable. It was trying to enter into the private room. Was it there for the Immortal Lord that was sitting in front of him? If yes, then why did it suddenly disappeared when the other energy appeared for barely a second?

Didn't know why but he felt some kind of familiarity with that second energy. Something deep that connected him with it. But that couldn't be possible, right?

"Did you...felt the presence of that other energy too?" The Demon Prince finally asked as he couldn't hold his words inside.

He needed to find out more about what just happened. He wanted to run after that energy and find its owner but his instinct was telling him to stay with the golden robed man.

And in the farthest corner of his mind, a very little part of his senses was trying to remind him that the lilac girl was also present in the auction house.

Could it be possible that the black mist was once again trying to attack her? Suddenly his heart started quenching in pain at the very thought of his lilac girl getting hurt.

But a stubborn part of his mind started getting angry at him for thinking of an unknown woman who was trying to deceive his brothers with her pathetic charms and dark powers.

He couldn't let himself become a target of her darkness. He needed to save his brothers from her and at the current moment, he was the only one who was trying to find their real mate.

"Of course, I did. It was..." The man in the golden robe stopped as he tried to find the right words to explain that energy.

"Kind of familiar? Like we have known it for a long long time? Refreshing, healing, exciting, and an unimaginable pull that tugged you towards it?" Hei Long tried to help his friend while telling exactly how he felt about that energy.

The golden robed man let out a sigh as he lightly shook his head as he asked, "Is that even possible to feel all those things in a mere second through a trail of an energy?"

The Demon Prince looked at his friend as he asked with a small twitch on his lips, "Are you trying to say that you didn't feel any of them?"

The golden robed man passed the Demon Prince a heated glance. His eyes trying to find some answers in the depth of the beautiful eyes of Hei Long, but of course, he got nothing.

After a few seconds, the Immortal finally replied, "I felt it too. Just amazed that it's even possible to feel so many emotions through an energy in just a mere second. Do you know whom that energy belongs to?"

This time it was the Demon Prince who got silent for nearly an entire minute before answering, "Though it felt really familiar, but I still can't pinpoint anyone whom it could belong to."

The two Immortals fell silent after that, both lost in their thoughts.

After a few restless minutes, Hei Long stood up from his seat, making the other Immortal raise his eyebrows in confusion.

"I will be back in a few minutes." And with that being said he rushed out of the room. Not caring about the several pairs of curious eyes that followed him.

"What's up with this kid now?" The man in the golden robe asked out loud to no one in particular as he watched the door through which the Demon Prince just disappeared.

A man in white and royal blue clothes appeared beside the golden robed man, taking a seat beside him. Though his posture remained stiff and on guard.

"How long will it take you to get used to being normal around me?" The golden robed Immortal asked the other man.

The man in white and blue robes, who was known as Senior Shen throughout the Immortal world, immediately bowed down to his Master, apologizing for not being able to perform his task properly.

"Aish! I told you to loosen yourself a little bit around me. To behave more like the childhood friends that we are, rather than my guard. But look at you right now, it looks like I'm asking you to kill yourself." The golden robed man said with a shake of his head.

"Supreme Majesty, you can order me to spend an entire year in the depths of the devil's volcano and I will take it happily without uttering a word, but this servant seriously can't do what you are asking me to do." Guard Shen immediately replied as he kneeled on the floor with his head bowed down in apology.

"You can't complete such a simple mission. How can you boast about spending an entire year in the devil's Volcano? The golden robed man said with a shake of his head.

The devil's volcano was one of the most dangerous places in the three realms and it resided in the depths of the Demon Realm.

Senior Shen accepting an entire year's punishment in that dark and horrible place just explained how difficult it was for him to act like a normal friend around the Supreme Being of the Immortal World.