Alex didn't move a step forward when he heard Shen Jing's voice in his head. A moment later, he felt a gust of wind.
Alex turned around, simply out of instinct, to see if Shen Jing had come. However, no one was there.
"That's not the direction you want to go towards," Shen Jing said from right next to him, but Alex couldn't see him at all.
He strained his senses as far as he could to find him, however, the next set of words came from so near him that he felt the breath on his ears.
"I'm right here."
Alex jumped a little, looking in the direction where the sound came from but saw no human standing there. It wasn't until Shen Jing got rid of some sort of technique that Alex finally saw him.
'What was that?' he wondered.
Alex checked his connection with Pearl and felt him someplace far away. "Where's Pearl?" he asked.
"Cultivating someplace else," Shen Jing said.
"Is he safe?" Alex asked as a sense of panic ran through him.
