Song Wen's battle with the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar ended quickly, lasting no more than three to five breaths.
Afterward, he and the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar went their separate ways, swiftly disappearing into the distance.
The Heaven-and-Earth Avatar headed east. After flying several hundred li, it landed in a mountain ravine and vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a rice-grain-sized Gu insect. Carrying a storage ring in its mouth, it burrowed into a crack in the ravine's rocks.
Song Wen himself headed west. After flying two thousand li, he concealed his aura and plunged into a surging river.
Not long afterward.
A burly figure appeared in the valley, which had already been reduced to ruins.
Looking at the shattered stones littering the ground and the broken mountainsides around him, the newcomer furrowed his brows.
"The ones who fought seemed to have been two peak Spirit Transformation cultivators, both corpse-path demonic cultivators."
"The two did not determine a victor. One left eastward, while the other went west."
The newcomer muttered softly to himself.
His figure flashed abruptly, and he sped eastward, stopping above the mountain ravine where the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar had last appeared.
"The aura vanished here. Why did it suddenly disappear?"
After surveying the narrow ravine for a moment, seemingly unable to make sense of it, the man shook his head and turned back west.
Soon, he arrived above the stretch of river where Song Wen had disappeared.
"It seems this person escaped through the riverway."
His divine sense spread swiftly, probing along the river. Yet after searching more than two thousand li both upstream and downstream, he found no trace of any cultivator.
At this sight, his brow furrowed ever more deeply.
"How could two corpse-path Spirit Transformation cultivators suddenly appear near Xiuyang City and dare to fight so fiercely here?