Fox Immortal (Part 2)

"Wait, Scholar Xia! How could this be?"

Watching Xia Yuanchen vanish without a trace in an instant, Han Lingsha could not help crying out. Murong Ziying, Liu Mengli, and Yun Tianhe were equally stunned. He had looked like nothing more than an ordinary scholar, yet he possessed such abilities.

"So that was an earth-element immortal art. It could be used like that?"

Shen Fei looked just as surprised, though he was not shocked by Xia Yuanchen's sudden disappearance. He had known from the start that Xia Yuanchen was a rogue immortal and a mountain god, even if he did not look the part at all. What truly surprised Shen Fei was the power Xia Yuanchen had used to disappear.

Shen Fei had always been fascinated by the Five Elemental Arts and had been practicing them all along. He had focused especially on earth-element arts because of the Earth Spirit Pearl. Yet after seeing Xia Yuanchen vanish, Shen Fei immediately realized that he had made a grave mistake—a fatal one.

He had treated the Five Elemental Arts as enhanced versions of ninjutsu. Coupled with the influence of the immortal arts in the games, he had always thought in terms of attack when practicing them. Yet the Five Elemental Arts were not limited to offense. Xia Yuanchen's movement just now had used an earth-element art.

"Then the Earth Spirit Pearl's return-to-town ability probably works on the same principle. I should give this more thought." Xia Yuanchen's disappearance reminded Shen Fei of the Earth Spirit Pearl's teleportation ability in the game. He had thought it impossible in the real world of Chinese Paladin, but now it seemed entirely achievable. This could practically be called shrinking the earth into inches.

Of course, Shen Fei understood the principle, but actually accomplishing it would likely require