How could the four of them fail to understand? The figure before them, which looked exactly like the short-bearded elder, was merely an illusory shadow no different from a True Person—not even an External Incarnation.
"Shadow Body Talisman." The name of this talisman surfaced in all four of their minds almost simultaneously.
The two Elder Lis were cultivators from Jian'an Prefecture. Even though they had never personally seen the Ghost Talisman Sect's two guardian talismans, they had heard of them. As for Rong Qing and the other cultivator, they had learned the talisman's name from Bing'er and Qin Fengming, and they were still aware of some of its power.
Upon seeing what had appeared before them, how could they have any other thoughts? It was undoubtedly the Ghost Talisman Sect's Shadow Body Talisman.
While the four Elder Lis were each fighting a short-bearded elder from afar, in another direction, forty or fifty kilometers from where the five had first clashed, two cultivators were currently confronting each other.
"Who are you, and why have you intercepted me?"
The short-bearded elder had just broken out of the stony ground. Before he had time to sweep his gaze around, he saw an extremely young cultivator at the early Ghost Lord stage standing a hundred yards before him. The young man wore a faint smile and stared at him with eyes bright and piercing.
At this sight, the short-bearded elder, who was at the mid-stage Ghost Lord realm, could not help feeling startled. He spoke in a deep voice.
This elder was naturally the short-bearded elder who had activated the Shadow Body Talisman.
After activating the Shadow Body Talisman and transforming into two copies of himself, he had separately cast two secret arts to control the clones, making them carry the attacks away and