The Daoist's Primordial Spirit raced through the void, without dazzling escape light or a rainbow trail. No one could see him, no one could sense him. Even ten times the speed of thunder fell far short of his-he truly had reached the utmost extreme of speed.
Sending his Primordial Spirit hurtling out of his body, escaping the shackles of flesh, and racing through the void without a flying sword or any other external aid, relying solely on his understanding of the void and his command of his Primordial Spirit-this was the fastest escape technique Cheng Xinzhan could currently employ. As for Innate Earth Escape, its strengths lay in concealing his traces and passing through barriers. Though fast as well, it still fell a notch short of Spirit Wandering, which pursued sheer speed.
The reason the Daoist was in such a hurry, traveling as a Primordial Spirit, was that he had detected a brand-new Fourth Realm presence in the heart of Hehuang, precisely where the Northern Faction Demon Sect's Heavenly Demon Tower stood.
The Heavenly Demon Tower, also known as the Nine-Story Demon Tower, was a demonic Archetypal Sect with a long heritage in Hehuang. It had two distinguishing features. First, it accepted only demons, not humans, and its cultivation emphasized swallowing bloody prey alive rather than qi ingestion, making it exceedingly savage and bloody. Second, its tower had a peculiar structure: its base was above and its tip below, built upside down from ground level into the earth. What exactly lay within, how deep it went, how large it was-outsiders never knew. It was extremely mysterious.
True Lord Cheng's interest in the Heavenly Demon Tower, however, was not due to its strangeness or mystery. It was simply because he knew that his disciple White Dragon was currently training and cultivating