Ninety-nine percent of Zhou Xun's spiritual power had been suppressed. He could only wield the faintest wisp of it.
Using that sliver of spiritual power, Zhou Xun opened his Storage Pouch, took out a stack of Defense Talismans, and tucked them into his robes.
At the same time, he activated a Golden Shield Talisman and enclosed himself within its protection.
Fortunately, maintaining the Golden Shield Talisman required only a trace of spiritual power.
Lin Xueying and the others followed Zhou Xun's example and activated their Defense Talismans.
Zhou Xun then raised his eyes and looked around, only to discover that he could see no farther than five zhang ahead.
He swept the surroundings with his divine sense again.
His divine sense was suppressed even more severely; it could not even leave his body.
"What the hell is this place?" Wang Erniu muttered.
Although this place was exceedingly strange, compared to the Foundation Establishment cultivator pursuing them from behind, it seemed far less threatening.
After all, at their closest, they had been less than three li apart. With a Foundation Establishment cultivator's escape technique, it would take only a dozen breaths to catch up.
Now that this place suppressed divine sense and spiritual power so fiercely, it surely affected Foundation Establishment cultivators as well.
For the moment, they were safe.
"Miss, do you know where this black mist came from?" Zhou Xun asked gravely as he looked at the pitch-black surroundings.
As a direct descendant of a Foundation Establishment lineage, Lin Xueying had seen and heard much. Perhaps she knew the origin of this mist.
"It seems to be the legendary Ghost Domain!" Lin Xueying nodded at his words.
She really did know about it.
When she had been young, she had loved spending her time in the Lineage's library. She