Tu Zhang and Immortal Fairy Ji Xiang had none of Venerable Feng Ji's wariness. Their bodies and minds had already relaxed, and they had never imagined that someone would suddenly launch an attack on Qin Fengming at that moment.
The two were Mahayana cultivators, after all. The instant the attack appeared, they swiftly activated the incantations within their bodies.
But before either of them could strike, Xia Liang's body had already been enveloped by the Shadowy Phantom Great Law Venerable Feng Ji had unleashed, and sharp, ghostly blade-light shattered his body. In an instant, fragments flashing with scarlet light burst outward, forcing the attacks the two had been about to launch to change course at once. They hurriedly shielded themselves while rapidly retreating backward.
There was no other reason than that the two could see clearly: those fragments plainly did not look like splattered flesh and blood. That was not Xia Liang's true body.
Venerable Feng Ji had likewise recognized the situation. His eyes were wide, and his spiritual sense rapidly spread across the surroundings.
In merely an instant, he sensed a fluctuation flash rapidly through the void before stopping a thousand zhang away. Xia Liang's body then emerged.
Without the slightest hesitation, Venerable Feng Ji vanished from where he stood. He unfolded his Shadowy Phantom movement technique and appeared at that location almost simultaneously with Xia Liang's body. Several more ghostly blades flashed into existence, and a violent, icy aura swept forth, once again drawing that figure into its midst.
At that moment, the icy soul energy revealed by Venerable Feng Ji's use of the Shadowy Phantom Great Law far surpassed what it had been before. After his journey through Ice Valley and his baptism by ice-soul energy, the ice-soul energy contained within Venerable Feng Ji's Shadowy Phantom Great