Chapter 1426: The Hunt and the Flight (Part Four)

Li Yan’s heart hammered in his chest as he fled. It wasn’t just from the massive expenditure of magical power, but because his “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens” movement skill, which had never been recognized before, had been identified in a single sentence.

A wave of shock and a rare sense of panic washed over him.

Throughout his cultivation journey, he had relied on the divine abilities of the “Undead Nether Phoenix,” and he had long understood the value of its essence blood. It was a treasure countless cultivators dreamed of obtaining.

Only now did Li Yan realize that due to the limited knowledge of cultivators in the lower realm, no one had ever been able to recognize the movement skill he used.

This had inadvertently caused him to only remember the earnest teachings of Dong Fuyi and Ping Tu—to always be careful to hide the arts of the Gui Water Immortal Sect to avoid adverse consequences.

He had long forgotten that the preciousness of the “Undead Nether Phoenix” essence blood would likewise bring him enormous risk.

Li Yan didn’t know what relationship the stunningly beautiful woman had with the “Undead Nether Phoenix” clan, but her determination to capture him was definitely related to her recognition of “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens.”

Either she would hand him over to the “Undead Nether Phoenix” clan for judgment, or she would refine him herself to obtain the essence blood in his body.

Apart from these two possibilities, Li Yan could think of no other outcome.

‘This is a real lesson!’ Li Yan thought, a tinge of regret in his heart. After so many years in the Immortal Spirit Realm, he still hadn’t fully integrated, always thinking about “going home” and passing on messages.

Moreover, after successfully tricking several Spirit Transformation cultivators, he had actually started to focus his thoughts in one place.

But this was no time for regrets.

As he flew, the silver light on Li Yan’s body suddenly dimmed. The circulation route of the magical power in his body instantly changed. As he formed a hand seal, that exceedingly cold voice once again sounded in his ear.

“Brat, your physical body has reached its limit. Surrender obediently, and I can make you suffer less!”

Li Yan’s face was grim, but he knew the gap between them and could only swallow his anger.

This time, it was even more dangerous than the great battle with Xue Longzi. If they fought, he would be finished nine times out of ten. The small distance advantage he had just painstakingly created had been completely wiped out.

Ignoring everything, Li Yan’s phantom-like body paused for a moment. An inexplicable power arose from him, and his figure blurred once more, leaving only a faint afterimage.

This time, under the stunningly beautiful woman’s lock, Li Yan could no longer care if she could recognize the secret arts of the Gui Water Immortal Sect. And with just this slight delay, the stunningly beautiful woman had closed the distance to just over a hundred li.

From behind, the beautiful woman had just stepped out of the void when she saw Li Yan’s figure, this time not turning into a silver light and disappearing, but vanishing into the void before her eyes.

“Hmm? He also knows spatial laws? Although the laws he has comprehended are still very crude, he can already use spatial laws to escape from a distance. This brat actually cultivates a spatial law, and has reached the point of entry. But he is just a small Nascent Soul realm cultivator of the human race, yet he has such an understanding…”

The beautiful woman was too familiar with the power of spatial laws. From the place where Li Yan had disappeared, she had instantly captured a familiar power fluctuation.

Moreover, she immediately saw that the other party’s was a spatial art. It was just that the spatial magical power the other party had mastered seemed to have just reached the entry level. This made the beautiful woman even more overjoyed.

According to that brat’s current realm, it would be good if he could merge into the void within a short distance.

Her own clan’s was an innate divine ability, a blessing that came with their bloodline, not something that was comprehended through hard work.

Then for this human youth, at such a realm, to be able to cultivate to this level, how could it not make her overjoyed?

She immediately believed that this should be because the other party, after refining the “Undead Nether Phoenix” essence blood, must have forcibly crossed the void with his physical body, and thus had taken the opportunity to comprehend an alternative spatial power.

And in the world, apart from innate divine abilities, separate spatial-type cultivation arts were extremely rare. The jade of another mountain can be used to polish one’s own stone. This cultivation art was of too great a use to her.

This made her even more certain of her thoughts, and her heart was already filled with wild joy.

After Li Yan had guessed the other party’s intention, he now fled even more desperately.

The “Quaking Cosmos” that Li Yan was using at this time was about four thousand li each time. That was escaping at the speed of teleportation. If the other party was a true Spirit Transformation cultivator, Li Yan would probably have already shaken them off.

Last time, after his comprehension through the “Fuxi Plate,” he had brought this cultivation art to the minor accomplishment stage, but it had only increased the distance by a few hundred li, and he still couldn’t reach a farther distance.

At his current physical body level, he could still only support seven uses.

This was not to say that Li Yan’s physical strength and toughness had not grown after so many years of cultivation in the Immortal Spirit Realm, but that the growth was still not enough to support him in using it for the eighth time.

Li Yan felt that perhaps when he advanced to the Spirit Transformation realm, he might be able to fully improve the “Quaking Cosmos” cultivation art.

But today, after continuously using “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens,” he could still barely use it five times. And to be able to do so was the foundation he had accumulated over so many years of cultivation.

If it were in the past, using “Quaking Cosmos” for the fifth time today would have brought him great harm, and parts of his physical body would have disintegrated.

After so many years of arduous cultivation, his physical strength, although not enough to use it eight times, was already very close.

In addition, this divine ability used the power of spatial laws, and the physical body only bore a part of the pressure during the shuttle.

It was not like “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens,” which almost broke through all laws with one force, using a brute physical body to resist all external pressure.

After continuously using “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens,” Li Yan’s physical body had already suffered some damage.

Although his body had a self-healing ability, compared to the continuous consumption, it still could not be repaired in time.

Li Yan stepped out of the void. Just as he was about to carefully identify the direction, this time, only a cold sneer of “chi” sounded in his ear.

Li Yan’s heart pounded wildly. This time, the other party couldn’t even be bothered to speak, and was sticking to him like a leech, firmly behind him.

When Li Yan appeared thousands of li away again, he had just stepped out of the void. As he raised his hand, he was about to throw something.

In his Divine Sense that had instantly spread out, the plump and curvaceous figure appeared once again. This time, the distance between the other party and him had been shortened by another twenty-odd li. Li Yan immediately cried out in his heart.

The stunningly beautiful woman’s mastery of the laws of space was far stronger than his. The other party could quickly find the traces in the void he had just passed through and constantly approach.

If this continued, it wouldn’t be long before he was caught.

And the stunningly beautiful woman behind him was even more shocked by this divine ability of Li Yan’s.

‘It actually has the speed of teleportation. Unfortunately, this wisp of divine will has been weakened again after continuous consumption before, and can only approach step by step.’

She herself was just a wisp of divine will. Even if she had related pills, she could only maintain the divine will and reduce its consumption. A divine will that had left its main body could not be restored upwards.

However, the more and more powerful Li Yan’s divine abilities were, the more determined the stunningly beautiful woman was to capture him.

Seeing that not only had he failed to shake off the other party, but he was also getting closer and closer, Li Yan began to become anxious.

He had no other escape arts he could use. The result of all this was all due to this beautiful woman’s speed being unacceptably fast.

Li Yan only needed to get rid of the other party’s lock for half a breath, and then he could use “Stealthy Night Art” again. But the other party seemed to know his thoughts and did not give him any time at all, always firmly locking onto him.

Even Li Yan had the thought of tearing open the void, entering the chaotic flow space, and using “Quaking Cosmos” again, just like when he had dealt with Xue Longzi back then.

Now, after using “Quaking Cosmos,” Li Yan could already sense some of the scene in front of him about half a breath in advance, which was somewhat safer than before.

But teleporting in the chaotic flow space, he had no direction at all. In the next moment, he didn’t know where he would be in the outside world. To get out smoothly would be difficult.

Li Yan was afraid that with one careless mistake, he would fall into some powerful demonic beast clan as soon as he came out of the chaotic flow space. That would truly be sending a sheep into a tiger’s mouth.

So, when Li Yan had just appeared, he had planned to place a “Sand Star King Stone” to leave a positioning mark for himself.

But the other party was like a maggot on the bone. The moment he appeared from the art, the stunningly beautiful woman had appeared in an instant and had still firmly locked onto Li Yan.

This made Li Yan’s idea of placing the “Sand Star King Stone” a pipe dream.

In this situation, once he threw out the “Sand Star King Stone,” the other party would also discover his secret and could easily retrieve it.

“No, I only have four chances left. I’ll risk it!”

The ruthlessness in Li Yan’s heart immediately surged up. The remaining four times to teleport in this vast prairie would only take him out nearly twenty thousand li.

According to the current situation, it was not of much use. At that time, he would really have no other way.

So, what he wanted was not to merge into the void here, but to tear it open and enter the chaotic flow space behind the void.

Li Yan raised his hand, and the “Sand Star King Stone” in his hand swiped at the sky. This time, he didn’t even use his Magical Power, but directly used this object to cut a crack in the space above his head.

Then, he plunged his head in, and the crack in the void quickly closed.

“Trying to hide in the chaotic flow space, this is a desperate act!”

The stunningly beautiful woman behind him saw the young man’s figure, who had just solidified from the void, seem to raise his hand as if to deploy something.

But after a slight pause, he suddenly swiped fiercely at the air. A spatial crack appeared above his head.

Then, the other party plunged his head in. Although the stunningly beautiful woman was shocked in her heart, she was not surprised.

The other party had already run out of options and was trying to escape using the chaotic flow space.

Her thoughts raced. Just as a faint trace of the spatial crack that Li Yan had torn open remained, she had already caught up.

Raising her jade-like palm, she also swiped at the original trace without hesitation, and the crack appeared again.

Then, she also plunged her head in!