Withered Marsh.
Five hundred li beneath the ground.
Song Wen was rapidly fleeing northwest.
After escaping Du'e's range of perception, he used the substitute-death spell to teleport onto a patch of mud protruding above the water's surface.
Then, he activated an Earth-Escape Talisman and burrowed deep underground.
The Earth-Escape Talisman was exceedingly mystical, allowing him to move freely through soil and rock, like an eagle striking across the vast sky or a fish swimming through the sea, unhindered in every direction.
His speed underground was only slightly inferior to his speed through the air.
Moreover, although using the Earth-Escape Talisman left behind traces of his aura, those traces were already faint to begin with. Coupled with the concealment of the thick rock, they were difficult to detect.
The Earth-Escape Talisman paired with the substitute-death puppet was simply the perfect combination for fleeing.
Still, neither could compare to the talisman Chi Pei had once used to teleport ten thousand li.
Song Wen tried to descend deeper underground, but once he passed a depth of five hundred li, the earthen-brown spiritual radiance surrounding him began to sway violently and grow extremely unstable, as though it could scatter at any moment.
This was because the deeper he went underground, the pressure from the earth increased exponentially. That pressure was like a thousand mountains and ten thousand peaks crushing down upon him at once, layer upon layer, boundless and overwhelming.
It was worth mentioning that, with Song Wen's divine sense suppressed by the thick rock, he could not perceive the situation aboveground and thus had no idea exactly how deep he had gone.
This depth of five hundred li was what Ye Bing had told him when she gave him the Earth-Escape Talisman.
Therefore, Song Wen did not know whether he had shaken off