Thinking that such a Phantom Beast was still lurking nearby, eyeing him covetously, Jiang Liu could not help but grow wary.
Although those two strikes just now should have injured the Phantom Beast,
it had still managed to escape, and now he could not find any trace of it.
In every respect, that Phantom Beast possessed formidable abilities of concealment.
Jiang Liu knew the limits of his Divine Sense detection.
The fact that he still could not detect the Phantom Beast's whereabouts meant that its strength should not be much weaker than his own.
The reason he had managed to injure it just now was probably because it had been careless for a moment.
If it truly fought him head-on, injuring it would probably not be so easy.
However, since he had already wounded it, Jiang Liu would certainly find it and prevent it from continuing to wreak havoc here.
But Jiang Liu had a doubt in his heart—one that even made him feel alarmed.
How could a Phantom Beast this powerful have stayed here all this time instead of going elsewhere?
Moreover, the place where it had chosen to remain was the most barren region in the entire desert.
To Phantom Beasts and martial artists, any place with scarce Heaven and Earth Essence was the most desolate land.
A Phantom Beast with such strength could occupy any mountain range and claim a place rich in essence as its lair.
Yet this Phantom Beast had unexpectedly chosen to lie low here without leaving.
If Nangong Xing and the others had not happened to search this area, they would never have discovered its existence.
That was what truly frightened Jiang Liu.
A Phantom Beast like this had gone into hiding here, so it must have had its own scheme.
If its