The Two-Headed Armadillo stared at the eyes of its companion, which Lu Xuan kept turning over and over in his hands. The hatred in its gaze grew stronger and stronger, almost taking solid form.
The grayish-yellow glow around its body grew ever denser. With a crack, all the scales across its body sprang open at once, and the ropes binding it snapped in an instant.
All of this seemed to catch Lu Xuan off guard. Before he could react, the badly injured Two-Headed Armadillo seized that fleeting chance and plunged fiercely into Stone Mountain.
Before it left, it gave Lu Xuan a venomous, hate-filled glare.
"It isn't easy being the villain."
Lu Xuan sighed with feeling, circulated the Greater Five Elements Art, and a thin layer of grayish-yellow Spiritual Power appeared over his body. He likewise burrowed into Stone Mountain.
The reason he had left this injured Two-Headed Armadillo alive was not because he had any intention of taking it out of the blessed land to raise it. In truth, he only wanted to follow it, find the gathering place of the Two-Headed Armadillo Demon Beast group, and thereby locate the rare spirit soil they depended on for survival.
So, after Qian Dinghong and the other person left, he returned to Stone Mountain, released the injured Two-Headed Armadillo, and deliberately provoked it with words and the remains of its companion, giving it a chance to escape.
Within the Greater Five Elements Art Lu Xuan cultivated was the Five Elements Escape Technique, and he was similarly skilled at earth escape.
His Spiritual Sense locked tightly onto the Two-Headed Armadillo darting rapidly through the rock. From the inner side of the thin-as-a-cicada's-wing dark-gold Concealing Spirit Cloak, countless nearly transparent threads emerged, completely isolating and concealing his aura and Spiritual Power.
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