Indeed, Ye Han had figured out how the Demonic Qi Shadow had been pinpointing his location.
But solving the problem was no easy task, since he had neither learned any curse-breaking or evil-warding spells nor acquired treasures of that kind.
However, Ye Han remembered that when he had bought talismans from Ye Chunfeng's stall, Ye Chunfeng had given him a few of every kind he stocked.
He had actually visited Ye Chunfeng's stall in the first place only to obtain the Purple-Gold Runes that the Purple Cauldron had sensed.
So he had bought a random assortment of talismans. He had already used quite a few, but several kinds remained untouched, including evil-warding talismans and curse-breaking talismans, both intermediate-grade talismans...
Thus, Ye Han took out both kinds and used them on himself.
The evil-warding talisman had no effect, but when the curse-breaking talisman activated, a ring of blackish-gray aura surged around him...
Sure enough, a strange blood-colored figure appeared above his head, hovering there as it followed him.
Yet the curse-breaking talisman had merely revealed the blood-colored figure. It had not eliminated it.
At that critical moment, the Purple-Gold Runes within the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea flew out on their own, transforming into a cloud of purple-gold specks of runic light. They enveloped the blood-colored figure and instantly pierced it apart, scattering it into blood essence.
Then the Purple-Gold Runes turned into a streak of purple-gold light, flew into his divine sense sea, and merged back into the Purple Cauldron.
Only then did Ye Han notice that the Demonized Cultivators and magic beast puppets that had been pursuing him began scurrying everywhere like headless flies...
Seizing the opportunity, Ye Han sped up and raced through several branching cave passages. He found that no more magic beasts or Demonized