Ye Han reacted with lightning speed. With a flick of his finger, he opened the swirling spatial passage into the Purple Cauldron Space, drawing Fairy Jade Orchid toward it...
Fairy Jade Orchid's expression shifted. She immediately understood what was happening, stopped resisting with her spell power, and slipped into the Purple Cauldron Space...
Ye Han used Cloud-Chasing Divine Steps and swept his hand casually. A wave of spell power and spirit light rolled outward, sending a whirlwind over the leaves and ground around him. The traces of his and Fairy Jade Orchid's presence dissolved into a light breeze and drifted away.
He had spent considerable time and effort getting past the Black Water Sect's layers of patrols and traps to reach this place.
If he were discovered now, all his efforts would come to nothing.
With that thought, Ye Han turned into a streak of spirit light and darted into a tree. He flashed through the woods repeatedly and vanished after just a few movements.
Over the past year or so, besides cultivating, healing his injuries, and studying the Great Geng Sword Art, he had also made considerable progress in the Five Elements Cultivation Method. Now, by circulating the Life-Giving Wood Spirit Art, he could blend his body perfectly with the surrounding trees and conceal his aura from others without even using the aura-concealing and invisibility powers of the Myriad Images Mask and the Red Mask...
Of course, unless a Nascent Soul Realm great cultivator came, no one could hope to find him...
Sure enough, those streaks of flying light carried more than twenty Foundation Establishment Realm disciples of the Black Mountain Sect. They came swarming in with a roar and began searching the area...
"Split up and search! Don't let anyone from the Azure Profound Sect slip in!"
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