The avatar and the incarnation traveled together, the incarnation hidden within the avatar's sleeve. Both the avatar and incarnation were Zhang Tie, yet neither was entirely Zhang Tie. They were connected, yet each remained independent. Looking across the entire human race, there was likely no second person capable of wielding such an unfathomable secret art as naturally as Zhang Tie—seamlessly combining the supreme secret technique of Soul-Possessing Beast Control from the Great Wilderness Scripture with a Divine Rune grandmaster's avatar, and, under the effects of the Mind-Splitting Technique, reaching a realm as inscrutable as ghosts and gods...
Zhang Tie's avatar sped forward. Only when he was about to fly out of the narrow passage's exit did he deliberately become more cautious and slowly reduce his speed. Even an idiot would know that the junction where one emerged from a relatively cramped, concealed space into a vast open one was the place most likely to harbor an ambush.
When he was less than a hundred meters from the exit, the black little beetle that was Zhang Tie's incarnation silently flew out from his sleeve, found an inconspicuous spot, blended into the surrounding rock wall, and went still.
When Zhang Tie's avatar reached the exit, he acted as though he had no idea there was an ambush in the underground space outside. Out of nothing more than an Earth Knight's instinct and caution in such circumstances, he abruptly stopped. Rather than rashly flying out, he remained at the edge of the opening, his blazing gaze carefully surveying the underground space.
Under the Lotus Blossom Eye, whose avatar ability had been reduced by more than half, Gao Tianzhao and the Devil Race knights lying in ambush immediately held their breaths and hid with even greater care, terrified that all their efforts would come