With Venerable White holding the fort, the Invisible Sword Gu huddled off to one side, not daring to move.
In fact, Venerable White was curious himself. Why had the Invisible Sword Gu started trembling the moment they saw him, too afraid to attack?
Invisible Sword Gu were ferocious spirit beasts. They were bold and utterly fearless, with offensive power around the Fourth or Fifth Grade. They were also invisible and undetectable even to a cultivator's spiritual senses. To ordinary cultivators, Invisible Sword Gu were every bit as deadly as an attack they never saw coming.
Sword Gu were also fiercely territorial. Under normal circumstances, they would charge even an Eighth-Grade Profound Sage who intruded on their turf, let alone a Seventh-Grade Venerable! They had no fear of death. Even if they could not beat an enemy, they would smear the intruder's face with their blood and droppings.
Only someone like Venerable Blazing Fire, whose Beast Taming Arts had reached a miraculous level, could soothe the Invisible Sword Gu and make them retreat obediently.
Venerable White had never learned the Beast Taming Arts. Yet as he approached, the Sword Gu began to shake. They backed away until they were ten meters from him, as though frightened out of their wits.
Senior White himself was baffled.
The Invisible Sword Gu kept ten meters between themselves and Venerable White.
They watched him warily. The handsome human cultivator before them seemed to have suddenly grown much weaker, dropping straight from Tribulation Immortal to Seventh-Grade Venerable. But they could never mistake his distinctive aura.
The moment they sensed that aura, fear rose from the depths of their souls. Forget attacking him; they could not even muster the will to resist.
In the end, Venerable White caught only one Sword Gu, a larger one