"Th-th-there..."
Fang Huai stared at the enormous meteor before him, still steaming fiercely and only three or four meters away. For a long while, he was too stunned to speak.
"Oh my, what a coincidence. How did such a huge rock fall from the sky? Before I even had a chance to act, it crushed these beasts to death. What a pity." Lu Jun feigned surprise, a kindly smile spreading across his face.
Fang Huai swallowed and dropped straight to his knees before Lu Jun.
A meteor smashed the rebellious soul. My lord, I'm an honest man!
Lu Jun raised a hand, and a gust of wind lifted Fang Huai back to his feet.
"Why did you suddenly kneel again? Don't be afraid. It was merely a natural phenomenon. Let's head back to town first," Lu Jun said.
"...All right..." Fang Huai's parched throat took a long while to force out those words.
The two of them followed the path they had taken up the mountain earlier and headed down.
But Fang Huai's state of mind was now completely different from before.
After taking only two or three steps, Fang Huai laid all his cards on the table.
"Lord Lu, I come from a Spirit Medium family in Jingzhao Prefecture. My ability is—Spirit Medium. I can communicate with the recently deceased, or with the divine true spirits within Visualization Diagrams," Fang Huai said.
"Oh." Lu Jun nodded indifferently.
"Lord Lu, the reason I was previously able to have a White Tiger phantom cling to my body was that I performed a true-spirit descent with the White Tiger Immortal within a Visualization Diagram," Fang Huai explained.
"Oh." Lu Jun's expression remained flat.
"Lord Lu, not long ago, I became stranded here. The demons of this place seized control of the passage