The Charm Ghost's flight technique was remarkably accomplished. For the first ten miles or so, she fell not a whit behind the wind-escape art, clinging tightly to the tornado as it surged northward, and even at one point forcing Qiao Ruohe's hurricane to veer southward.
This was not because Qiao Ruohe's wind-escape art was inferior to the Form Manifestation cultivator's flying technique, but because he was continuously channeling spiritual power into Huang Yingying amidst the gale, feeding her every medicinal pill he had on hand in a desperate bid to staunch the endless flow of blood from her two-foot wound and save her life.
He knew that if her physical body died, though her soul might endure, an Out-of-Body Stage cultivator could not control a disembodied spirit. The soul would become a lonely, wandering ghost, ultimately seized by the underworld enforcers of the Nine Springs to serve as a slave.
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