The sudden scene at the city gate shocked countless people—there was such a way to do this?
Then, the Martial Ancestor scooped up the Wizard Apprentice and fled into the distance at astonishing speed.
The others at the gate stood stunned for over a second before someone leaped straight down from the wall and gave frantic chase.
However, no one knew what secret technique the Martial Ancestor had unleashed, but he was incredibly fast. The farther they chased, the more distance opened between them.
Only then did someone help put out the fires on the two martial cultivators.
In similar incidents in the Ghost Shaman World, pursuing the culprit usually came first. Maintaining order required it.
Saving people came second, after all. Rescuing someone cost money—what if the person being saved was some poor wretch?
The two martial cultivators probably were not poor. One was a Martial Ancestor, and the other an Advanced Martial Master.
Yet the Wizard Apprentice trying to save them cast earth- and water-element witchcraft in succession, but still could not extinguish the two human torches.
"Damn it, those are Fireball Spells refined by an advanced Wizard... Those scrolls aren't cheap. How could an apprentice get one?"
"Can't someone have a lucky encounter? Still, that person must have been truly furious to use such a scroll."
"That scroll consumes a great deal of mana. After activating it, that apprentice probably didn't have enough mana left for the Drift Spell."
"How do you know he had no mana left? Look how fast that Martial Ancestor was. No matter how fast the Drift Spell is, can it outrun a secret technique?"
"Even if he had a little mana remaining, he might not have been able to activate a second escape scroll."
Amid the indifferent discussion, the two martial cultivators'