It was very likely that you had never been someone who had just entered the True Immortal realm. He even believed that your true cultivation was actually that of an Immortal King. He could only comfort himself this way; only then could he accept having been beaten so miserably by you.
Hou Ba still refused to admit that a cultivator of the same realm could defeat him so easily.
Thus, Hou Ba followed behind you, thinking all the way. Yet he failed to notice that, bolstered by your Shrink Ground into Inches, you had swiftly arrived before Xue Feng. Although Hou Ba's eyesight could not locate Xue Feng, who had already used a secret art, Xue Feng likewise failed to see either of you.
But this was no difficulty for you. Under your control, Xue Feng was soon enveloped by your Breath Concealment and Cloud Swallowing supernatural power, though this increased your Immortal Essence consumption considerably.
Concealing all three of you at the second level at once consumed Immortal Essence at a rate nearly equal to your recovery speed. This was also a form of weakening for you.
Meanwhile, Xue Feng, who had originally been tense and solemn-faced, saw you and Hou Ba behind you. His eyes reddened, yet in the end, nothing else fell.
Clearly, he had not originally believed that Hou Ba would definitely be able to save him. But he was obviously different from Hou Ba. Having deeply cultivated secret arts of breath concealment and concealment, he would not be like Hou Ba, utterly unresponsive even when a Spell and Supernatural Power had enveloped him.
Therefore, he understood even better than Hou Ba just how powerful the concealment you had provided was. From that alone, he no longer remained frozen in place as before, terrified of being