After Wai finished the potion, he decisively dispelled the Stone Prison.
The instant the Stone Prison was lifted, Wai's skin all over his body began to petrify.
As the Stone Prison vanished, the scene outside entered Wai's sight. At that very moment, his pupils abruptly contracted. Reflected in them was a pitch-black evil ghost mask—the very mask Ghost Shadow wore on his face!
That meant... Ghost Shadow had been waiting right outside the Stone Prison! They were practically face-to-face now!
Wai's heart lurched, and he immediately attacked Ghost Shadow.
The moment his palms came together, several earthen spikes sprang from them. After extending segment by segment and accelerating continuously, the sharp spikes could deliver three layers of impact—shattering shields, drilling holes, and crushing bones, each layer escalating over the last.
At the same time, the horizontally released earthen spikes generated a recoil force, allowing him to immediately retreat and widen the distance.
The earthen spikes smoothly pierced Ghost Shadow's body, and Wai successfully pulled away. Yet there was not a trace of joy on his face, because the feedback through the spikes was clearly wrong. It felt soft and yielding, as though he had stabbed cotton rather than a solid human body.
As Wai wavered in alarm, the sound of wind suddenly rose behind him.
Wai did not turn around. He merely tapped the ground with his foot, and a stone pillar shot up from the earth. Standing atop it, Wai rose directly ten meters into the air.
Only then did Wai turn to look below.
A human shape slowly separated from the pillar's shadow. The fading silhouette gradually became solid, like an ink-black outline being filled in with color by a painter.
The person who became tangible was Ghost Shadow!
Wai immediately turned back toward the place where he