Chapter 358: The Sky-Lifting Giant Hand! The Ghost Gate Opens! The Temple of the Great Emperor of Eastern Peak! Is the Dragon King Manifesting or Devouring People?
And indeed, the robed elder was dead.
The greedy Old Ghost Wusheng, who sought to profit from others’ struggle, was dead! The thousand-year yin tree of Fengdu was dead; the ghostly face born from the remains of some mighty being in the great chasm was also dead; the sealed evil eye in the city’s altar was dead as well[1]!
Su Shunqing drew a long breath and patted her chest, still shaken.
“That damned Daoist... what a terrifying killing aura he has!”
With a thought, she gradually veiled her presence, slipping away into the shadows of the ancient city.
To cultivate to the third realm, and still preserve contingencies within her corpse-body even after disaster, Su Shunqing relied not merely on ferocity, but on a keen sense of timing and circumstance!
At this time, Li Yanchu’s heart stirred. His cold gaze swept in the direction Su Shunqing had disappeared with a thoughtful glint in his eyes. He was one who had entered the Dao through martial cultivation, and his fleshly body and primordial spirit were both equally formidable and, above all, tempered with a warrior’s instinct honed through countless trials. Unless one used a special means to conceal themselves, it was near impossible to escape his perception.
Su Shunqing’s cultivation was not yet restored to the third realm, and had let slip a trace of aura just now.
Still, at this moment the ghost city was teeming with sinister presences, and its air choked with resentful gazes, so he did not dwell on it.
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Roaaar!
At this time, a deafening roar split the heavens. Every ghost within the city felt terror seize them, the dread born of facing something far greater than themselves. From within Fengdu, an ancient aura awakened.