"Did that bastard leave with Guo Jing'an's soul?"
Watching that beam of light vanish, He Ping realized that as the enemy fled, he had taken Guo Jing'an's soul with him.
"But why save Guo Jing'an? Was it because he considered that man one of the future Eight Cultivators of Wind and Cloud, someone blessed with extraordinary fortune?"
As He Ping pondered this, he was also shaken by the boundless might of Little Stone Buddha's "Fourth Dharma Seal."
He surmised that under the Fourth Dharma Seal's power to distort heaven, earth, space, and time—where only I am the "true self," only I am "reality," while all things in the world are "unreality"; where only I am the "true Dharma," while all things in the world are "heretical paths"—even someone as powerful as the Heart Fox Great Sage would undoubtedly be defeated if she took that strike head-on.
Yet that mysterious man had endured a blow from the Fourth Dharma Seal and still had the strength to flee. That alone showed how extraordinary he was.
"That's right. Since Guo Jing'an is one of the future Eight Cultivators of Wind and Cloud, there is reason enough for that man to have set his sights on him." Little Stone Buddha's past body withdrew from the flesh puppet.
"This man's identity and origins are anything but simple. He has cultivated the Earthly Escape from the Three Evasions Heavenly Book to such a level; perhaps he has very close ties to the Taiyi lineage... Furthermore, he should now be an Underworld Immortal of the Other Shore. This is a method of attaining the Dao by an aberrant path. Few in the world can accomplish it, and even within the Other Shore, there may not be many who have found the way in..."
"He's that formidable?!"
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