"Fuck... I was careless!"
The moment Li Yun rushed into the Black Mist, he realized he had acted rashly.
Hidden within the Black Mist was a vortex that spanned at least twenty or thirty meters.
Billowing Black Mist and Weird Beasts poured out of the vortex. At the same time, its center gave off a terrifying pull. When that force caught Li Yun, even he struggled to keep his footing.
His body was lifted helplessly off the ground.
The Aperture Refining Realm experts who had rushed in ahead of him fared no better. The pull had already swept them up, and they were being dragged toward the vortex's center.
They struggled, pouring out True Qi with all their might to break free, but it did little good.
Li Yun had no idea what lay at the center of the vortex, but it certainly could not be anything good.
He had no intention of letting it suck him in.
With a thought,
he immediately activated the Earth Burrowing Technique.
In an instant,
a deep connection to the earth arose within him. It was as though gravity had suddenly grown dozens of times stronger, forcibly dragging his airborne body downward against the vortex's pull.
The instant his feet touched the ground again,
Li Yun's body seemed to turn into a drop of water. He slipped straight underground, descending more than ten meters into the earth.
The familiar, crushing pressure of the earth engulfed him. Li Yun once again felt a stifling sense of suffocation. He knew that without True Qi, he could not move in and out of the earth at will.
If he stayed too long, even at Body Tempering Twelfth Level, he still risked being crushed to death underground.
He did not dare waste a moment.
He picked a direction