Xiang Yuan tunneled through the earth, using the innate divine ability of Five Elements Escape Art to carve out a small space. Like riding an elevator, he plunged downward with his head lowered.
Unlike other cultivators, once he reached the Innate stage, he possessed the Five Elements divine ability to "split mountains when meeting mountains, evade waters when meeting waters." Its origin lay in the Five Elements Pearl Yue Huanjiang had given him during Acupoint Opening. He cultivated the Five Elements internally, which fed back into his nine apertures—the exact opposite of other cultivators, who cultivated the nine apertures externally and fed them back into the inner Five Elements.
After Spirit Transformation and the Nether Passage Realm, all divine abilities related to the Five Elements had increased to varying degrees. Earth escape and burrowing in particular had countless marvelous uses—truly an indispensable divine skill for home life, travel, murder, and robbery.
After sneaking downward for a while, to an unknowable depth, Xiang Yuan worried that the Wheel Prison Great Demon might catch up. He changed direction and continued descending.
Then he switched to automatic mode and let the small space move downward by itself.
Once he was sure he was safe for the moment, Xiang Yuan looked at the nearly carbonized deadwood in his arms. It was light as air, without any weight at all, and even more fragile than glass. With the slightest excess force, it would shatter all over the ground.
Lingyue, your master got burnt to a crisp!
Inside the earth-escape space lay several of Bai Wuyan's magic treasures: the No Calamity Sword, Immaculate White Lotus, and Cloud-Woven Heavenly Robe. Their divine radiance had dimmed, leaving them dull and lightless, their surfaces covered in cracks.
The moment Bai Wuyan breathed her last, these magic treasures would become