"Careful, fall back! It's a Soul Artifact, a Soul Artifact!" Jian Qianxiong's frantic roar had turned into a shriek from sheer urgency.
Yan Wuji gave a savage grin, his gaze sharpening. The low-grade Spirit Soul Artifact Yama Brush, which he rarely used, turned into a streak of black light and stabbed straight at Ye Zhen!
Wherever the black light passed, even the air rippled in rings. The instant its radiance flared, the two Grand Elders guarding Ye Zhen's flanks, Nian Sijing and Cai Xingchang, could not stop themselves from retreating.
As for Ye Zhen, locked onto by Yan Wuji's Yama Brush, he felt his heart abruptly clench, as though all the blood in his body had frozen in that instant.
Ye Zhen's pupils shrank to pinpoints. One strand of his divine sense abruptly descended upon the other Wind Swallowing Beast that had only recently been activated at his chest, while another silently opened the entrance to the Mirage Dragon Pearl.
Originally, the Crimson Moon Guardian on the Crimson Moon Soul Ring should have offered the greatest certainty at this moment. Unfortunately, it had already been used in the previous battle against the Human-Snake Monster and would need at least eight more days before it could be activated again.
He could only settle for the next best thing.
Still, Ye Zhen did not have much confidence that the Wind Swallowing Beast could devour the attack of the Soul Artifact before him.
After all, Wind Swallowing Beasts, as exotic beasts, came in varying strengths.
The three Wind Swallowing Beasts Yang Yiguan had sent Ye Zhen were merely hatchlings of three or four months. Even after being force-grown with the Beast Taming Sect's secret art, they had only just passed their infancy and entered their growth phase.
To reach the point where they