With that thought, Shen Luo recalled the Ghost General standing guard nearby, summoned the Pure Yang Sword Embryo with a turn of his hand, and soared into the sky.
After circling the area for a while, he discovered a small city outside the mountains. He extended his divine sense toward it and soon established that it lay within Scarlet Prefecture, and that these mountains were the Five-Linked Mountain Range.
"Scarlet Prefecture! I only used Yimu Immortal Escape once before the demonic thoughts took control of me, yet I traveled this far!"
Shen Luo murmured to himself, astonishment filling his heart.
Although Dengzhou and Scarlet Prefecture bordered each other, Spring Autumn Temple was at least four or five hundred li from the Five-Linked Mountain Range. Even with his mastery of Yimu Immortal Escape, ten consecutive uses might not have carried him so far.
"Master, when you used Yimu Immortal Escape earlier, the demonic qi in your body poured into the Yi Wood escape light, making it suddenly surge. That was most likely what let you travel so far," the Ghost General said.
Shen Luo froze at these words. After a little thought, he soon pieced together a plausible explanation from his hazy fragments of memory. Taking his physical condition at the time into account, things had likely happened just as the Ghost General described.
Could demonic qi amplify the power of my abilities? If so, it does have some uses, Shen Luo thought despite himself, but he immediately shook his head and discarded the notion.
However great its benefits might be, this demonic qi still belonged to a crooked, unorthodox path. Its very first eruption had nearly caused a catastrophe. He had best uncover its traces and find a way to expel it as soon as possible.
Without further hesitation, Shen