The Zhaoshen Map was extinguished, but the disturbance in the distance had yet to travel here through any ordinary medium. There was a time lag, and within that cramped interval, the Shadow Ghost howled:
Hide, hide, hide!
The Shadow Ghost's thoughts were sharp and concentrated. Anyone else would have been driven into a muddle by its racket, which only showed its state of mind. It was no wonder it was nervous, for the Shadow Ghost had long understood one fact:
At least for now, if Yu Ci lived, it might live. If Yu Ci died, it was certainly finished!
The power that had snuffed out the Zhaoshen Map in an instant undoubtedly surpassed the Void Stepping realm. Above that was naturally a tribulation cultivator.
Leaving aside the gap in strength between a tribulation cultivator and the rest, their six-sense divine abilities alone were as far apart as heaven and earth. At the distance between Yu Ci and the Earthfire Eye, he could evade the perception of Void Stepping cultivators. But even when facing a tribulation cultivator least skilled in sensing, it would still test his luck to the extreme.
No one knew why such a formidable figure had suddenly appeared. Though Yu Ci had once dared to face off against a Longevity True Man like He Qing, he knew perfectly well that it had been an unrepeatable situation brought about by many factors working together. Now that he had truly witnessed the terror of tribulation cultivators, he no longer possessed the recklessness of a newborn calf unafraid of tigers. More than anyone, he understood where the might of True Person cultivators lay.
"We should hide. But where?"
Ordinary methods of concealing one's form and traces would hardly work on a tribulation cultivator. The more reliable method was to burrow deep