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Originally, Jin Luosha's "Original Sin Brand" should be immune to all sealing barriers, but it must be said that human creativity knows no bounds, and their knack for causing trouble is just as unpredictable. Who knows which seals triggered a reaction? Although they cannot block the sensing ability of the "Original Sin Brand," they can greatly disrupt Jin Luosha's precise positioning ability at close range. In other words, Jin Luosha can now sense in which country and city the brand she set exists, but pinpointing its exact location within the city is extremely difficult.

"Huh?" Jin Luosha, while sensing, suddenly looked up in surprise and turned her head back. Chen Xuanfeng also turned his head and saw several robed figures pushing open the opera house door and walking out.

"Oh? Is it them?" Chen Xuanfeng asked.

"Correct, their movement direction aligns with the brand's shifting location," Jin Luosha affirmed.

"Alright, let's go." Whether it was to track the target or to escape the opera, the two of them hurriedly dragged Li Jia out of the theater. Their hurried exit almost made the people outside think there was a fire in the theater.

However, after they followed the robed figures from a distance into a building, Jin Luosha suddenly found that the sensing of the "brand" had disappeared.

But she wasn’t taken aback, as she had encountered such a situation before. Sure enough, moments later, a response from the "brand" came from a distant location.

"Brother, they used a teleportation array," the girl said, looking up.

Teleportation magic can turn a thousand miles into a single step, but its effects vary greatly depending on the target. The simplest is the teleportation of non-living objects, which doesn't involve consciousness or soul, so even a high-level mage can accomplish it, with the only variables being the distance and the weight of the items.

Teleporting living beings is far more challenging. To ensure the target's consciousness and soul are not harmed, it often requires a large number of mages and a massive teleportation array. If the target wields immense power, such as super magical beasts or a sword saint, the requirements increase even more. The sole exception is when the teleporter is a mage themselves—if a mage controls spatial magic, the requirements are only slightly higher than teleporting non-living objects. Even mages unfamiliar with spatial magic, as long as they are high-level, can cooperate under the guidance of a spatial mage to complete the teleportation. Of course, this also applies to non-human creatures, dragons being a classic example.

However, although they all fall under spatial magic, there are many internal differences. For example, the moon-aligned "Spatial Flicker" of the deceased "White Night Knight" is completely different from the long-distance teleportation arrays set up by the Holy Temple and the blood elves. Therefore, he still couldn't teleport autonomously like a mage and had to rely on the support of many mages.

Given the circumstances, it’s clear that among the robed figures, there was likely a spatial mage, allowing them to teleport away in such a short time without emitting strong spatial magic fluctuations.

Chen Xuanfeng’s group, however, had no means to teleport. Fortunately, they weren't in a hurry, as the force capable of deploying a tenth-level mage to retrieve the data and setting up a long-distance teleportation array could only be the Mage Guild. Therefore, it was certain that the data would soon reach the true target. Instead of wearing themselves out chasing, it was better to wait until the dust settled before striking decisively.

Sure enough, over the next few days, the "brand" underwent several more teleportations before finally stopping in one place. Jin Luosha, after sensing, was delighted to find that the location was only about three hundred kilometers from their current position. Among the several teleportations, this last one was the closest.

Though three hundred kilometers is no short distance, it was only half a day’s journey for Chen Xuanfeng’s group of five.

By noon, the target was already in sight.

"Li Jia, take a look. What is that place?"

"Hmm, according to the map, that should be the mouth of the Xiu River on the southwestern coast of the Mainland. If the data is accurate, there should be a Magic Tower named 'Hua Yin Tower' nearby, affiliated with the Mage Guild. It's of medium scale, designated as a place for apprentice mages to advance to formal mages. Usually, about ten mages and one archmage stay there," the artificial girl replied, accessing the data in her mind.

As they spoke, Chen Xuanfeng suddenly noticed a flicker in the forbidden spell mark detection orb in his hand. It was the information they had been waiting for for months—the forbidden spell mark crystal was nearby.

Chen Xuanfeng couldn't help but smile. "At last, there’s a response. The target is nearby. It seems that so-called 'Hua Yin Tower' is probably just a front for the Mage Guild. This place should be the lair of the forbidden spell casters."

The forbidden spell mark detection orb, only the size of a human eye, can only sense the direction of forbidden spell marks within a hundred kilometers. If there are interferences like seals, this range can shrink further. Therefore, to confirm the target, Chen Xuanfeng circled the area within a hundred kilometers twice before finally pinpointing the target's location—exactly at the "Hua Yin Tower."

"Hua Yin Tower" is a tower about forty meters high and over ten meters in diameter. In Chen Xuanfeng's previous life in the Central Plains, such a tower would be considered a skyscraper, but in this magical world, it's only of medium size. The tower is constructed from magically shaped stone blocks, with no decorations but many magic arrays carved on it. Below the tower, there is a building complex the size of an ordinary village, where the apprentice mages studying in the tower live and work.

Chen Xuanfeng's group quietly approached, observing from a hilltop not far away.

"Brother, there's indeed a problem," Jin Luosha, being a top-tier mage, quickly noticed the issue. "That tower appears to be an ordinary Magic Tower, but I can sense that the space around it is very abnormal. It's likely using spatial expansion technology. In other words, the interior of the tower might be more than ten times its external size. Judging by cost and concealment, this place should at least have the configuration of a top-tier Magic Tower."