The ghost beast's roar had taken on an Illusionary Arts power capable of making demons, fiends, and savage beasts tremble, yet Yu Ci remained inexplicably unaffected, just as before. Only the shockwaves pierced his eardrums, leaving him in considerable discomfort.
At the same time, the information Elder Zhu had mentioned was transmitted over in an exceptionally wondrous manner. Yu Ci felt a slight stir in his soul. Thinking of Elder Zhu's words, he willed it and drew in that external force. A brief inspection revealed a lengthy message, written entirely in divine sense and bound into a compact cluster.
To bundle divine sense across an entire mountain and deliver it with such precision—the old man's attainments in the path of the soul were truly unfathomable!
Yu Ci had no time to marvel, however. The situation before him consumed nearly all his attention.
He was currently on the ghost beast's back!
There was a saying: once you rode a tiger, it was hard to get down. Yu Ci felt that riding a ghost beast was a hundred times worse.
It was not that Yu Ci did not know how dangerous the ghost beast's back was, nor that he did not wish to get away. Yet when he rose several feet into the air and tried to exert himself again, his body felt hollow and empty; his strength had already failed him. Meanwhile, the ghost beast's body suddenly expanded, smashing through the rock beneath Yu Ci's feet and directly lifting him up.
"There are signs of exhaustion... I was too overconfident!"
This was the consequence of Yu Ci forcefully driving earth escape with the Breath-Light Evasion Technique. The Five Elements escape arts were easy to learn but difficult to master, with earth escape being the culmination of them all. Master earth escape,