Afterward, Xiao Hua put the jade slips, jade pendants, and the like into his space. Frowning slightly, he closed his eyes to contemplate them. As time passed, his brows drew tighter and tighter. This so-called Ancient Fire Art was indeed obscure and difficult to understand... The sun set and the moon rose, and the sky had already darkened. East Ridge Medicine Garden was completely shrouded in the pitch-black night. Xiao Hua sat with his eyes closed in contemplation, his entire body enveloped in starlight from beyond the heavens, invisible to both divine sense and the naked eye. The Dragon Transformation Art within his body continued to circulate on its own. There was still a great deal of flame in Xiao Hua's meridians, all transformed from the Fire Marrow Blazing Crystal—enough to sustain him through the final stage of the eighteenth layer of Qi Cultivation.
It was around midnight, precisely when yang energy waned and yin energy rose. Outside East Ridge Medicine Garden, where there had been no movement for a long time, a palm-sized, flat spirit beast resembling a bat emerged from the black night. It had come from a forbidden area near East Ridge Medicine Garden, and it was precisely the one awakened by the thunderous sound of Xiao Hua's Bright Thunder Evasion!
The spirit beast drifted through the night sky, almost blending into the darkness so completely that no trace of it could be seen. Moonlight poured down like water, yet it too was absorbed by the beast's fur, casting only its shadow upon the ground.
The spirit beast flew extremely fast as well. Several zhang passed beneath it in the blink of an eye. Before long, it had approached the formation around East Ridge Medicine Garden.
The spirit beast clearly knew the formation. Its entire body slanted