Seeing the Ghost Venerable turn into a black shadow and flee, everyone stared at one another in wide-eyed disbelief.
"This!"
"Damn it, we actually let that guy get away."
Everyone hung their heads in dejection. The Ghost Venerable had been within their grasp, yet who could have expected him to escape?
This was not any one person's responsibility. Though everyone was furious, they could only sigh in the end.
Everything had happened in the blink of an eye. Yang Chen had not reacted in time either; by the time he did, the Ghost Venerable had already escaped.
He could not help but sigh over the missed opportunity, then asked, "Mountain River Destruction Map, what was that?"
"It should have been one of the Netherworld's methods. I do not fully understand the Netherworld either. My master was the same back then, but my master came to understand the Netherworld's terror and thus sealed off the passage to this plane in advance," said the Mountain River Destruction Map.
Yang Chen's brow furrowed tightly.
The other Enlightenment Stage cultivators were not much happier either. Then, a Dao King cultivator said, "Brothers, there is no need to be too discouraged. Although the Ghost Venerable escaped, he abandoned his physical shell just now. He is no longer much of a threat, and for the time being, it will be difficult for him to stir up any more trouble. Once we return, we can report this matter to the two Lord Heavenly Venerates. I believe the two Lord Heavenly Venerates will personally enter this place to deal with it. That Ghost Venerable is hiding himself and slipping away, making him difficult to find, but with the two Lord Heavenly Venerates present, dealing with him should not be difficult."
"Yes, that makes sense." Upon hearing this, the