While at the Willow Snake Clan, Yuan Rong had used a Teleportation Talisman and narrowly escaped the range of Venerable Biwu's perception.
Afterward, he had fled for his life, hoping to put as much distance as possible between himself and the Willow Snake Clan.
Yet he had barely fled a few hundred thousand li before Venerable Biwu caught up with him again.
With his life hanging in the balance, he had no choice but to fight desperately.
First, he brought out a magical treasure called the Mysterious Yin Mirror.
Countless vicious souls surged from its surface, sweeping outward with towering waves of ghostly energy. In an instant, they filled an area a thousand li across, enveloping both him and Venerable Biwu.
A few vicious souls and some ghostly energy naturally posed no threat to Venerable Biwu, but they could interfere with her spiritual perception.
Yuan Rong then seized the opportunity to crush three blood-colored crystals.
He had spent a hundred years condensing those three blood crystals from his own blood essence.
The instant the crystals shattered, they transformed into three hundred figures that fled in different directions.
Each blood shadow carried a trace of his essence, making it difficult even for the spiritual sense of a Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator to distinguish the real one from the fakes at once.
This secret art was called Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions, a supreme escape art he had obtained from the Divine Blood Sect. Cultivated to its utmost, it could produce a thousand phantoms.
However, that required an enormous supply of blood essence-dozens of times the amount contained in his own body.
As everyone knew, losing too much blood essence would leave a cultivator's body extremely weak and could even damage their foundation and shorten their lifespan.
Thus, while cultivating this secret art,