Deep within the underground prison, Phantom stepped silently out of a mirror.
Her Transcendent Stage Late Phase Mirror Realm ability let her move freely between reality and illusion. To her, the Defensive Formation around Asura Hall was as good as nonexistent.
The prison corridor was dark and narrow. Most of the cells on either side were empty, with only the deepest one giving off faint energy fluctuations.
She recognized Ghost Pupil's aura, and a slight smile curved her lips. Just as she was about to walk toward his cell, an extremely faint green mist suddenly rose from the floor beneath her feet.
Phantom reacted swiftly, leaping several meters backward the instant the mist touched her ankles and landing in the shadows at the other end of the corridor.
She looked down at the green mist. It was slowly spreading, staining the entire corridor an eerie pale green.
This was no ordinary poisonous mist. The energy within it was steadily corroding the surfaces of the spare mirrors she had left in the corridor, and fine cracks had already appeared across them.
"It seems you came prepared," Phantom said softly, her gaze sweeping over the shadows on either side of the corridor.
Qin Shuang stepped out of the shadows, her Domain Realm Late Stage Shadow Bloodline operating at full power. The shadow beneath her feet stretched far in the corridor's dim light.
She knew the gap between herself and Phantom all too well. Domain Realm Late Stage against Transcendent Stage Late Phase—an entire major realm separated them. In a head-on fight, she could not withstand even a single blow.
So she had never intended to confront Phantom head-on.
Her task was not to defeat Phantom, but to hold her up and give Jiang Chen's toxins enough time to corrode her meridians.
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