Elder Jing Geng transformed into a brilliance and drilled a hole in the mountain wall, escaping into the distance.
This talisman was no simple matter, it was passed down from his lineage, which possessed a complete heritage, remnants of a great sect that had been destroyed in the past.
This talisman had been transmitted within their lineage for thousands of years, carefully preserved without loss of its spiritual energy.
He was resolute in his decision, immediately activating the talisman upon sensing extreme danger.
He had no regard for the fact that this lifesaving talisman had been passed down for thousands of years, as it was intended for use in the most perilous times.
The brilliance that he became tunneled out of the belly of the mountain, fleeing at a velocity several times faster than what a Golden Core cultivator should be capable of.
The wolf-headed human-shaped fourth-grade spirit beast had arrived, its perception incredibly powerful, coupled with the fact that this was its territory.
It instantly detected the formation at the cliff edge, perhaps if there had been no formation, it wouldn’t have so directly discovered the anomaly.
The formation laid by the Array Master Dong Wei might be useful against great demons, but it had no effect on a fourth-grade spirit beast, an existence equivalent to a Nascent Soul Ancestor.
The wolf-headed human-shaped fourth-grade spirit beast shattered the formation with a single palm strike, revealing the Array Master Dong Wei and two Golden Core cultivators within it.
Array Master Dong Wei, maintaining contact with Elder Jing Geng, only managed to send out a single word with his Divine Thought before being engulfed by a terrifying presence.
The three Golden Core cultivators were as powerless as infants before the fourth-grade spirit beast.
By the time the wolf-headed human-shaped fourth-grade spirit beast passed by, the three Golden Core cultivators had turned into a pool of filth, their corpses no longer existent.
It was then that the wolf-headed human-shaped fourth-grade spirit beast noticed the fleeing brilliance of Elder Jing Geng.
The wolf-headed human-shaped fourth-grade spirit beast also realized that the Corpse Lotus it had cultivated for over a thousand years was gone, and that the fleeing brilliance had a hint of the Corpse Lotus’s aura.
Without any hesitation, it chased after the fleeing brilliance.
As Elder Jing Geng fled, there was still a sliver of hope in his heart.
In his mind, the refined corpse should still be within the cavity of the mountain. He couldn’t detect the corpse, but he figured the arriving fourth-grade spirit beast certainly could.
If the refined corpse could delay the spirit beast for just a moment, he could use the activated lifesaving talisman to escape with his life.
As for the matter of the Corpse Lotus, he felt only relief. If there were no refined corpse, he might have lost his life, making the Corpse Lotus useless.
However, just as he entertained this thought, he sensed the terrifying presence behind him.
It was only because the fourth-grade spirit beast did not want to damage the environment of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains that it hadn’t exerted its full power; otherwise, the sheer aura of the spirit beast would have immobilized him.
"What’s going on? Why is it not chasing the real thief?" He was filled with bewilderment, not knowing that the wolf-headed human-shaped fourth-grade spirit beast also had not discovered Li Yuanba’s trail.
Where was Li Yuanba at this moment?
The place he was in was one that no one had anticipated.
He was inside the body of a corpse underwater, an enormous body.
The ice-cold pool water prevented the Divine Thought of Golden Core cultivators from penetrating, so they could not perceive what was beneath the water.
But Li Yuanba didn’t use Divine Thought; with "Divine Sight," he could see everything at the bottom of the lake.
He saw a gigantic corpse, a kind of creature he had never seen before, not even mentioned in any of the archives.
The body of the strange beast filled nearly half of the bottom of the pond, entwined by numerous remaining roots of the Corpse Lotus.
When Li Yuanba realized a fourth-grade spirit beast was approaching, he didn’t have time to think. Using his own legal treasure, IBMz15, he obtained the best plan.
Without a moment’s hesitation, he first used "Step by Step Lotus" to reach the side of the corpse in the water.
He felt the ice-cold chill of the water. Fortunately, he was in a Corpse Refining state. The formidable strength of Body Refinement combined with the corpse’s defensive power allowed him to withstand the chill.
He didn’t pause underwater, immediately channeling all his spiritual power to perform "Space Movement."
Since his main body, Li Shiming, had reached the Golden Core Middle Stage and learned "Space Movement," Shiming also shared this knowledge with him.
However, he was only in the Golden Core Early Stage and using "Space Movement" was still somewhat strenuous, hence why he needed to appear next to the corpse in the water to perform it again.
Even so, his Corps Refining form’s Yin Cold Spiritual Power was completely drained.
That was exactly what he needed. According to the analysis from his life-bound legal treasure, IBMz15, in front of a fourth-grade spirit beast, it was safest to have no spiritual power fluctuations at all, to appear as an ordinary being.
Of course, he couldn’t truly have no spiritual power, but when he used "Space Movement" to pass through the surface of the giant corpse and enter its belly, the giant body could shield any remaining spiritual power fluctuations.
The biggest difference between "Space Movement" and "Step by Step Lotus" is that "Space Movement" allows for spatial movement that ignores physical barriers.
He was successful. When he entered the interior of the giant corpse, Elder Jing Geng first failed to locate where he was hiding.
Then, the wolf-headed human-shaped fourth-grade spirit beast that came in afterward also failed to discover Li Yuanba.
But Li Yuanba was not having an easy time. He suspected the giant corpse had been a fourth-grade spirit beast. He had a deep understanding of the Nascent Soul Stage as well.