At this moment, Shen Mo could no longer spare any thought for others. He opened his mouth and spat out a streak of sword light.
Hidden within the sword light was his bonded artifact, the Demon Slayer Sword. It slashed toward the direction away from the relic's core with the force of Star Meteor, reaching a hundred li away in the blink of an eye.
Then Shen Mo reached out with a massive hand, seized the terrified Hong Gu, and directly activated—
[Sword Evasion] divine ability activated. Shen Mo and Hong Gu vanished into thin air. When they reappeared, they were already where the Demon Slayer Sword was;
However, even after fleeing a hundred li away, they were still far from safe before the indescribable danger at the relic's core... Shen Mo gripped the Demon Slayer Sword's hilt, surging true essence into its blade as he prepared to deploy the flying sword again and use Sword Evasion!
Yet in that instant, the true essence rushing through his body like a tidal wave suddenly fell into a deathly stillness, as though frozen. He could not wield even a wisp of it.
Without true essence to sustain the escape art, the spiritual radiance around Shen Mo went out like a candle flame in the wind!
Hong Gu beside him suffered the same fate. In an instant, the two of them plummeted from a height of a hundred zhang.
Bang!
Rumble!
A cluster of buildings standing amid the mountains was smashed into ruins by Shen Mo and Hong Gu's falling bodies.
This place had long since been excavated. The formations and restrictions that had once covered it were now extremely weak, while the cultivation resources left behind were all mundane objects. It was likely a residence for low-ranking disciples of the