Time and Tide Wait for No Man: To Take, First Give (Part I)

Yu Ci was moving away from the palace area, though he never believed he could easily shake off the pursuit of the Ten Directions Great Venerable.

Sure enough, roughly after he cleared a distance of two hundred li, a blinding white light suddenly flared behind him, and the sound of the air tearing open was like the crying of ghosts. Once this soul-shaking, mind-capturing strange sound passed, the surrounding air became as stagnant and heavy as deep water. This was the effect of the Ten Directions Great Venerable's divine will reaching him.

The might of a True Person cultivator could already extend beyond a hundred li, and the Ten Directions Great Venerable was in a special situation, so that went without saying.

These were still merely appetizers. As the divine will of the Ten Directions Great Venerable surged like a tide, a colossal figure abruptly appeared ahead.

Yu Ci's sharp eyes saw it clearly. That figure, towering over a zhang in height, was originally an unidentified armored beast in the forest. Yet, illuminated by the white light from behind, its body—no more than four chi long—rapidly expanded. Its thick outer armor split apart, tearing open dozens of bloody wounds in a flash, only to mend just as swiftly. In the time it took to blink, this armored beast had already reared onto its hind legs, its sturdy lower limbs propping it up as it took on a preliminary human shape.

Still marveling at the methods of the Ten Directions Great Venerable, Yu Ci watched as the armored beast let out a giant roar and threw a punch from afar. The forest felt as though a storm had been whipped up, and the surrounding nether ghosts and all manner of living creatures began to stir restlessly.

Yu Ci gave a cold