Chapter 1425: The Hunt and the Flight (Part Three)

Li Yan, sitting motionless on the tree, felt two Divine Senses sweep past him, but they only glanced over him before moving on. He couldn’t help but feel a sense of relief.

He didn’t care about the youth’s probe at all. It was just that the stunningly beautiful woman’s main body might be a Void Refining Realm existence. He absolutely could not treat her as a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator.

Otherwise, in their previous clash, his arm wouldn’t have been numb for dozens of breaths before he recovered. Li Yan was afraid that the other party had some methods that surpassed the Spirit Transformation realm.

But when the stunningly beautiful woman’s Divine Sense swept into the distance, Li Yan finally began to relax. This meant that his dual concealment was still something the other party could not break. She was just bluffing there.

Then, Li Yan saw the beautiful woman withdraw her Divine Sense, and suddenly two golden pillars of light shot out from her eyes. Then, in the void in front, an eye appeared and began to scan.

As soon as this eye appeared, Li Yan had a bad feeling. He felt that the eye, looking down from the sky, seemed to be able to see through everything in the world.

But at this time, although Li Yan’s sense of palpitation was getting stronger, he could not act rashly.

So, he circulated “Tidefall” and “Stealthy Night Art” to their limits, hoping to resist this inexplicable prying.

But when the eye had swept around a circle, and finally when it looked at him, its gaze suddenly froze, and then it dissipated.

A feeling of extreme danger immediately arose in his heart.

Li Yan could also see that the beautiful woman seemed to be having a hard time using this divine ability, and it should not be able to be used for a long time.

As long as he dodged this wave of probing, the stunningly beautiful woman probably would not have a better detection method.

But the sudden sense of danger that arose in his heart made Li Yan greatly alarmed, and he secretly cursed, ‘Not good!’

Then, he saw the stunningly beautiful woman in the mid-air a thousand zhang away, the corner of her mouth suddenly curled up slightly, and a smile appeared.

Li Yan’s heart trembled, and he immediately wanted to turn and flee.

However, just as he had seen the smile on the beautiful woman’s mouth a thousand zhang away a moment ago, in the next moment, it was as if someone was whispering in his ear, speaking in a cold voice.

“Not a bad cultivation art!”

Li Yan was instantly like a startled rabbit. All the Magical Power in his body erupted. In a short-distance dodge, he used “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens” without thinking.

He first fell directly from the tree branch, but while he was still falling, his body had just begun to unfold. He kicked the void with his heel, and his spine made a “crack” sound, and he suddenly shot forward at a right angle.

In just an instant, Li Yan’s speed had reached its limit.

In an instant, streaks of silver light were dragged out on the surface of his body. The concealment art had also completely disappeared.

“Swoosh!”

“Hiss!”

A sharp sound of breaking through the air was heard, and at the same time, a soft sound was also heard almost at the same time.

When Li Yan brought up the sharp sound of breaking through the air, he had already appeared hundreds of li away. Time seemed to have slowed down at this speed.

And at the place where he had just stood, the large tree that several people could barely wrap their arms around was directly enveloped by a suddenly appearing giant palm shadow.

The giant palm shadow’s five fingers instantly closed. The towering tree, in an instant, seemed to have gone through ten thousand years. Its trunk suddenly stopped swaying in the air, and in the next moment, it had turned into a pile of wood ash.

Then, a graceful and curvaceous figure appeared in the air above where the large tree had originally been.

“To have cultivated to such a speed, how pure must your Essence Blood be? Your physical body has been tempered quite well, having actually reached the Mid-stage Spirit Transformation level!”

The figure in the air quickly solidified. It was the beautiful woman. She had already withdrawn her snow-white jade-like palm, and the giant palm shadow below also disappeared in an instant.

An even more dazzling strange light shone in the stunningly beautiful woman’s eyes. She had not expected the other party to be so fast. Before her attack had even arrived, the other party had already escaped hundreds of li.

Moreover, because her attack had been sudden, the other party, in his haste, had dodged at a small angle. What kind of physical body was needed to withstand such a change at such a speed?

She immediately believed that this ordinary-looking young man possessed extremely pure Undead Nether Phoenix Essence Blood, not just a wisp as she had previously thought.

Only in this way could he have such a powerful physical body with only a Nascent Soul realm cultivation.

The stunningly beautiful woman actually did not know that Li Yan had also cultivated a top-level body refining cultivation art. But the confirmation at this moment made the stunningly beautiful woman even more surprised and joyful.

As she withdrew her palm, she waved her other hand, and the young man was taken into her spirit-storing space. Her own figure also disappeared in an instant.

She had already seen how fast Li Yan was. If she continued to chase with her disciple, even with this disciple’s physical body, he would not be able to withstand the force of breaking through the air at such a speed. He would just be a hindrance.

But she couldn’t leave this disciple here anymore. He didn’t need to watch the rest of the matter…

After just a few more flashes, Li Yan had already changed directions continuously and had gone more than ten thousand li. He was already fighting for his life.

This beautiful woman was an existence that he could not defeat at all. And Li Yan was even more unwilling to fight here. There were many demonic beasts around, and all kinds of conditions were extremely unfavorable to him.

The beautiful woman’s previous attack showed that her mastery of the laws was much stronger than his.

With Li Yan’s caution, once he determined that he was basically no match for the opponent, he was unwilling to clash with the other party head-on. In that case, he would definitely be left behind. By the time he felt that he was no match and wanted to escape again, it would probably be too late.

And what made Li Yan even more afraid to fight with the other party was that he had basically confirmed that the other party was most likely a wisp of divine will clone.

If her main body were to appear, Li Yan felt that he might not even have a chance to cry.

Not only was the eye that the stunningly beautiful woman had deployed just now, which had made Li Yan extremely wary, but her speed was also incredibly fast. He had clearly seen the other party still a thousand zhang away before, but she had reached the top of his head.

Li Yan didn’t even see how the other party had moved. If it weren’t for Li Yan’s almost instinctual sense of life and death, he would have almost been hit by the other party just now.

This was the first person Li Yan had encountered since he started cultivating, apart from True Lord Qianchong, whose speed made him feel that he was no match for them.

With such terrifying speed, it was unnecessary to guess the beautiful woman’s main body. It was definitely a “Golden-Winged Great Peng,” with a very deep mastery of the laws of space.

So, Li Yan had used his speed to the limit in just a few flashes, using all his Magical Power and physical strength without any reservation.

But under such a use of “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens,” Li Yan’s Magical Power had been consumed by thirty percent in less than five breaths. This kind of consumption was terrifying.

Li Yan’s Magical Power was already much more abundant than his peers, but it was still like a broken dam, flowing away in a torrent.

And his physical body also felt a stinging pain, and his joints also made a series of “creaking” sounds.

Li Yan knew that he couldn’t go on like this. And his original plan was to shake off the other party for a moment. In the brief instant that the other party’s Divine Sense had not yet locked onto him, he would immediately use the “Quaking Cosmos” divine ability.

Then, he would carry out a long-distance teleportation-like escape!

After escaping the other party’s blow just now, he no longer needed to precisely control and continuously change directions within a small range.

Compared to his current escape method, of course the “Quaking Cosmos” divine ability was better. If he continued to use “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens” like this, both his bones and his meridians would suffer serious damage.

“Quaking Cosmos” also used the laws of space, but it only borrowed a part of his physical strength. It was not comparable to “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens,” which relied entirely on the physical body to forcibly cross space.

After using these two cultivation arts alternately, in the end, once he could confirm that the other party had not locked onto him, Li Yan would once again use “Stealthy Night Art.”

He still insisted on his judgment. To use that kind of golden eye divine ability, the other party would definitely have to pay a great price and could not use it at will.

It had to be said that Li Yan’s experience in facing enemies was very rich, and his judgment was already very close to the truth.

Because he had been attacked by the other party just now, and was intimidated by the other party’s terrifying speed, Li Yan had no choice but to use “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens” continuously to change his position in his hasty escape, thereby increasing the distance between them.

At this time, Li Yan immediately released his Divine Sense and scanned behind him. In his senses, apart from some nearby demonic beasts, he did not find anything else.

Li Yan couldn’t help but feel relieved. His speed slowed down a little, and the silver light on his body also dimmed immediately. He was about to form a hand seal to use “Quaking Cosmos” without hesitation.

But almost without a moment’s pause, the palpitation arose again, and a voice suddenly sounded behind him again.

“Why did you stop running? So you are a human cultivator, and you even know ‘Phoenix Soars to the Heavens.’ It seems your fortune is not bad, having obtained the Essence Blood of the ‘Undead Nether Phoenix’!”

Li Yan felt all the pores on his body stand on end, and his heart almost jumped to his throat. He was startled by the sudden voice.

The voice that sounded behind him was precisely that of the stunningly beautiful woman. And the content of her words really made Li Yan’s soul tremble and his spirit flee.

“She knows ‘Phoenix Soars to the Heavens’… ‘Undead Nether Phoenix’…”

This was his biggest secret apart from the Five Immortal Sects. Only Bu Luo, Zhao Min, and Gong Chenying knew about it.

This thought had just arisen, and Li Yan didn’t have time to think too much. The silver light on his body, which had just dimmed, once again shone like a flame.

“Boom!”

With a sonic boom, Li Yan disappeared from his original spot again. And at the place where he had originally been, cracks appeared in the void, which had been directly shattered by the impact of his physical body.

At the instant Li Yan disappeared, his Divine Sense also saw a shocking scene. About six hundred li behind him, the stunningly beautiful woman stepped out of the void. The other party had actually gotten so close.

When the stunningly beautiful woman looked at him again, the killing intent in her eyes was gone, but was filled with infinite surprise…

At the same time as Li Yan disappeared, the stunningly beautiful woman’s just-appeared figure once again quickly merged into the void.

At this time, the stunningly beautiful woman’s heart was actually even more shocked by Li Yan’s speed. She had been chasing Li Yan almost on his heels.

Even with her mastery of the laws of space, the two of them had always maintained a distance of nearly a thousand li, and she had actually been unable to catch up.

It was not that her speed was not fast. The other party had only gone ten thousand li in a few breaths. This was originally as slow as walking in her eyes, but this black-skinned brat was extremely cunning.

In this distance of about ten thousand li, he had changed directions fifteen times in a row, changing directions several times in almost half a breath. And they were all the kind of sharp-angled turns that made you feel very uncomfortable and out of sync.

And in half a breath, he had already gone one or two thousand li. The continuous change of direction at such a high speed was truly terrifying.

This forced the stunningly beautiful woman to slow down time and time again and change with him.

The abnormal ability of this divine ability of the “Undead Nether Phoenix” to change directions at high speed, even their “Golden-Winged Great Peng” clan could only look at its back and could not compare.

Another reason was that the current stunningly beautiful woman, because she was restricted by her cultivation, and had just used the “Grotto-Heaven Golden Eyes,” her cultivation had slipped. When she used the laws of space again, she could only briefly merge into the void to cross it.

She had to be squeezed out of the void by the spatial power time and time again, and then immediately use the laws of space again to merge and pursue.

This made her speed only able to be maintained at less than forty percent of her main body’s power.

More than thirty percent of her speed was only barely comparable to a Late-stage Spirit Transformation’s full-speed escape.

And with Li Yan’s desperate escape, a Nascent Soul realm cultivator’s body could have a speed comparable to about thirty percent of hers, which had greatly surprised the beautiful woman.

Didn’t that mean that this small Nascent Soul cultivator, although his cultivation realm was pitifully low, his speed had surpassed a great realm and more?

Such a big change, however, made her even more overjoyed. As long as she captured the other party and refined the Essence Blood in his body, it would definitely make her main body’s strength increase greatly again.

Their “Golden-Winged Great Peng” clan, because of their special bloodline, had mastered the laws of space. This was the foundation of their strength.

This was also the reason why their clan had some blood relations with the two phoenix clans, and even the Kun Peng clan.

However, after the “Golden-Winged Great Peng” cultivated to the Void Refining Realm, it would become much more difficult to break through to the Body Integration Realm.

Their bloodline had originated from the phoenix, and was not as pure as the two phoenix clans, nor did it have the ancient and majestic power of a fish transforming into a Kun Peng.

So, their clan had always been located at the edge of the inner circle of the “Heavenly Demon Prairie.” This branch of theirs had even run to the region close to the outer circle.

Further into the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” there were more ancient demonic beast races, and they all had terrifying existences of the Body Integration Realm.

It was even rumored that in the core location, there might even be ancient and old clans of the Tribulation Transcendence period. This was roughly what the stunningly beautiful woman could know.

If the “Golden-Winged Great Peng” clan wanted to reach the Body Integration Realm, they either had to be able to comprehend a stronger spatial law that surpassed their innate divine ability, or they had to have the opportunity to devour and refine the Essence Blood of other high-level bloodline demonic beasts.

But those high-level bloodline demonic beasts, their young would basically stay in the depths of the “Heavenly Demon Prairie” before they became strong.

Even if there were some that came out, they would basically be at the Spirit Transformation or higher. Other demonic beasts would also have to consider carefully whether they could eat them clean.

The descendants of those powerful demonic beasts that could appear, just like the “Golden-Winged Great Peng” before, which one of them did not have a supreme treasure to protect them?

Killing across realms was a common occurrence. Not to mention angering a powerful demonic beast race. Even a race like the “Golden-Winged Great Peng,” which was already considered very powerful, their life and death was only in the thought of others.

Moreover, some powerful demonic beasts’ Essence Blood, after the “Golden-Winged Great Peng” swallowed it, just from the perspective of cultivation, it was unpredictable whether it was a blessing or a curse.

In the end, not only might it not help them break through, but it might even make their own bloodline become extremely mixed, and it was even possible for them to explode and die.

But today, the stunningly beautiful woman had unexpectedly discovered someone using the “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens” divine ability. This made her first surprised, thinking that a member of the “Undead Nether Phoenix” clan had come out.

The “Undead Nether Phoenix” clan should not exist here in the “Heavenly Demon Prairie.” In the information that the stunningly beautiful woman knew, they seemed to live in other realms.

This “Undead Nether Phoenix” clan had always been at odds with the other two phoenix clans. Those two phoenix clans were also divided into many different races.

But they basically had one thing in common. Most of them cultivated fire-attribute cultivation arts, and their innate divine abilities were also the laws of space.

The true phoenix bloodline, its mastery of the laws of space was not something the “Golden-Winged Great Peng” could compare to.

But this “Undead Nether Phoenix” clan, their innate divine abilities did not include the laws of space. This was almost an anomaly of the phoenix race.

But the physical body of this race was the strongest among all avian species!

Even compared to the legendary Kun Peng, which transformed from a fish, its physical body was not inferior. It was said that they dared to clash head-on with the Kun Peng and were not afraid at all.

The “Undead Nether Phoenix” clan was extremely domineering. Even if the other two phoenix clans were proficient in the laws of space, in front of them, they could shatter a part of the world, making the space where the other party was escaping become fragmented and easily slaughtered.

The “Undead Nether Phoenix” clan rarely appeared. It was said that because their physical bodies were too powerful, they could already ignore the existence of many laws and could just use their strength to forcibly interrupt or break through those laws.

This had also caused them to be restricted by the heavenly Dao. Their reproduction was also particularly rare, and there might only be a small number of them in other realms.

The stunningly beautiful woman also did not sense any demonic aura from Li Yan’s body. Although a demonic beast could conceal its demonic aura after cultivating to the Nascent Soul realm, the brat’s realm was much lower than hers. Especially in the clash before, the Magical Power that Li Yan had displayed had no demonic power at all. On the contrary, it was extremely pure Daoist power.

This made the stunningly beautiful woman immediately think of a possibility. This ordinary-looking young man was a human cultivator. He must have obtained the Essence Blood of the “Undead Nether Phoenix” and refined it.

This result made the stunningly beautiful woman’s mind race with excitement. If she could refine this young man, she could obtain the Essence Blood in his body.

Even if it was not much Essence Blood, she could also use the enhanced physical body from these Essence Blood to try to forcibly cross a farther void.

In that way, she would have a different understanding of the void, and there would be a good chance that her spatial laws would break through again, thus becoming a Body Integration Realm cultivator in one fell swoop.

And in the subsequent chase, the surprises Li Yan brought her became bigger and bigger. With his Nascent Soul realm cultivation, his speed was almost comparable to that of a Late-stage Spirit Transformation.

Moreover, in that distance of ten thousand li, the almost abnormal dozen or so changes of direction, if it were her, only her current main body could do it.

But if it were her Spirit Transformation realm self, her physical body would definitely have been torn to pieces. But the other party’s physical body was still intact, and he looked as if he had no problems at all.

And the stunningly beautiful woman herself could only rely on the powerful laws of power to constantly change directions and then close the distance again.

If it weren’t for her borrowing the spatial laws comprehended by her main body, she would have been thrown off her trail long ago.

For the other party to have such an amazing physical body, this brat had either refined at least four drops of Essence Blood from an adult “Undead Nether Phoenix,” or he had refined a drop of Essence Blood from an “Undead Nether Phoenix” at the Body Integration Realm or higher.

Either of these two situations, either one, made the stunningly beautiful woman almost have the excitement of “there is no greater happiness in the world.”

However, she believed that the brat she had encountered should belong to the former situation.

Because the Essence Blood of a Body Integration Realm “Undead Nether Phoenix,” even her main body would have to risk exploding to refine it. The other party’s little cultivation was obviously unable to do it.

But this was already enough!

The stunningly beautiful woman, who had once again merged into the void, while galloping, actually stuck out her fragrant tongue and gently licked her full lips!