Xiao Hua thought for a moment, then swept his hand and took a yellowish-brown talisman from his storage space. The talisman was exquisitely crafted, its runes floating one by one above the talisman paper, faintly seeming alive as they slowly flowed. It was precisely the Earth Evasion Talisman Xiao Hua had bought at the market!
With a surge of Xiao Hua's spiritual power, the runes upon it abruptly expanded, emitting an extremely faint yellowish-brown glow that enveloped his entire body. Before the cultivator's illumination technique could reach him, the glow gradually sank into the massive boulder!
The instant the Earth Evasion Talisman entered the boulder, Xiao Hua... froze!
Xiao Hua had not been stunned by the Earth Evasion Talisman's effect, nor had he... seen the cultivator approaching overhead! Rather, at the instant he entered the boulder, an incomparable familiarity spread across his skin! A warm, deeply secure feeling enveloped his entire body! It was as though the glow that had carried him into the boulder... was his home, a place he had visited countless times before!
"What... is going on?" Xiao Hua felt this inexplicable familiarity and was utterly at a loss. He even clasped the fingers of both hands before his chest, each forming a different hand seal. The seals felt familiar, yet profoundly mysterious, but... no spiritual power arose from them at all!!! Xiao Hua had an intuition that this spiritual power... seemed beyond what his current cultivation could activate. Moreover... when true qi circulated through his meridians, the spiritual power it generated was fundamentally... somewhat incompatible with these hand seals!
Yet as for exactly what was wrong, Xiao Hua was completely baffled!
Thinking of his unique insights into hand seals, Xiao Hua came to a realization. "Could it be... that I knew this earth evasion technique in