After giving it some thought, Zhang Tie spoke again. "All right. This is my communication jade slip. Once your king emerges from seclusion, use it to contact me."
"Very well. Since that is the case, I shall take my leave and not disturb you further, Fellow Daoist." The Great Priest accepted the communication jade slip Zhang Tie sent through the air, then cupped his fists in farewell.
After the Great Priest had completely departed, Zhang Tie's body was enveloped in a layer of yellow light. He then descended directly toward the forest below and finally sank into the earth, vanishing without a trace.
By expending divine power and using the power of the World Law to transform the law power of the Chaos Divine Thunder into earth-attributed power, Zhang Tie was able to perform earth escape. After entering the ground, he descended vertically until he was a thousand zhang below before slowly coming to a stop.
As the yellow light around Zhang Tie spread outward, a space three zhang high and more than ten zhang wide appeared around him in an instant.
As the yellow glow around him gradually faded, Zhang Tie waved his hand and took out a white formation disk and thirty-six tri-colored formation flags. Holding the formation disk in one hand and forming seals with the other, he chanted continuously as he calmly began setting up the formation.
This trip to the Immortal Beast Garden required him to travel with the Yaksha King. The other party was at least at the early Mahayana stage, far beyond what Zhang Tie could confront head-on at his current cultivation level. Even with sorcery, Zhang Tie could not guarantee that he could escape the enemy's all-out pursuit in a hostile situation, so preparing some means of escape was simply prudent.
Moreover,