``` [The strange beast with a tiger's body and a human head seemed to have caught your scent.]
[A low growl tore through the air. It wheeled around and lunged straight at you.]
[You frowned slightly. You had sealed away your aura without the slightest leak, yet somehow the beast had pinpointed you in an instant.]
[The situation was dire. This beast had reached the Great Dao Golden Core Realm, far beyond what you could confront head-on.]
[Without hesitation, you moved, and the Sword Escape Art answered your thought.]
[Swordlight wrapped around you like drifting clouds, carrying you off as fast as wind and lightning.]
[Within a few breaths, you had swept over mountain after mountain and reached the entrance to the Medicine Garden.]
[You looked up, and your heart sank. The passage you had come through had vanished. Towering stone pillars closed around you like a cage, and the exit you had left behind had silently sealed itself.]
[You were completely trapped in this world.]
[The beast pursued you relentlessly. It appeared to run slowly, yet reached you in the blink of an eye.]
[Your heart cried danger. Trapped in this cage with the beast, you would be forced into a cornered beast's fight.]
[If you unleashed every means at your disposal and fought to the death, you might leave you both gravely wounded. But something about this beast was deeply strange. It could break through this world's restrictions, and it clung to your aura like a disease rooted in bone.]
[Several times, you circulated the Seven Treasures Wondrous Form Scripture, transforming first into the Great Bright Peacock, then into the Purple-Gold Heavenly Horn Ant, hoping to throw it off your trail.]
[But no matter how you changed, the beast's gaze stayed nailed to you.]
[You fled through the