Chapter 1427: The Hunt and the Flight (Part Five)
In a boundless, dark space, meteorites of all sizes were interwoven in a chaotic mess, floating without any pattern, stacked layer upon layer. They moved in all directions without any direction.
The moment the stunningly beautiful woman entered the chaotic flow space, she saw everything before her.
She immediately scanned her surroundings with her Divine Sense, but to her surprise, she did not sense the fleeing figure of the young man.
Instead, she once again sensed a familiar fluctuation. It was in front of her, a faint fluctuation of spatial power.
“This… this murderous scoundrel, he… he’s not trying to hide in here, but dares to… continue using spatial law power to escape here?”
The stunningly beautiful woman’s face, which had originally had a faint smile, suddenly turned into a mixture of shock and anger!
She had never expected that the little Nascent Soul, upon coming here, was not trying to use the harsh environment here to hide, but still dared to continue using spatial shift to escape here.
Even her own main body would not dare to use teleportation-like speed to move around like this. Who knew what would happen at the next landing spot, what would appear?
She was powerful, but she was still borrowing the power of heaven and earth. And the true terror of the power of heaven and earth was something that even Body Integration and Tribulation Transcendence old monsters had to revere.
The dangers in the chaotic flow space, you could rely on your formidable strength to resist dangers that others could not, but it did not mean that you could be reckless here.
In a truly dangerous area, even her main body might not be able to return after entering. It was just that she could use the power of the laws of space more, and could deal with relatively more dangers here.
But the wisp of spatial power in front of her disappeared in an instant. This made the Spirit Transformation realm stunningly beautiful woman almost unable to believe the scene she had seen.
That brat’s actions were tantamount to suicide!
The stunningly beautiful woman’s reaction was also extremely fast. She gritted her silver teeth and took a step towards the place where the spatial fluctuations were about to dissipate.
“This time, if I catch you, it won’t be as simple as just refining you and getting your essence blood. I will use your soul as lamp oil and torture you for thousands of years!”
As the stunningly beautiful woman took this step, her phoenix eyes were on the verge of spewing fire.
By following her like this, she had already decided to give up this wisp of divine will. She didn’t know where the young man would appear next.
Perhaps he would directly appear in a black hole, a spatial fragment, this kind of desperate situation. The other party would die as soon as he appeared.
With the other party’s speed, she could only follow closely. Otherwise, after the spatial fluctuations quickly dissipated, she would completely lose the other party’s trace.
But this kind of speed of movement, with her current strength, she didn’t have time to check the surrounding situation. Perhaps just by following the other party closely, she would directly step into a dead zone.
If she sacrificed this wisp of divine will, her main body, which was in seclusion, would also be injured. It was possible that because of this, her main body’s Sea of Consciousness would become turbulent, and some of the insights from this hard-won seclusion would be in vain. How could this not make the beautiful woman hate him?
Just as she took a step, she also waved her jade-like hand, and a streak of light flashed out. The young man’s figure appeared in the darkness.
The young man was a little dazed. As soon as he came out, he felt a darkness before his eyes. He had not yet figured out where he was when his master’s cold voice sounded in his ear.
“Stay here. Don’t leave until I appear!”
Then, the young man stared blankly at his surroundings. Where was his master’s figure?
“Here… this is the chaotic flow space?”
The young man finally saw clearly the environment he was in, his face full of astonishment. How did they end up here while chasing someone?
It was fine for the beautiful woman to take a risk herself, but of course she could not let her disciple also perish with her wisp of divine will.
Therefore, she had left the other party in place. She had not sent the other party out, because she did not want this disobedient disciple to take the opportunity to run around again.
The black-skinned young man had now been forced into a dead end by her. Either she would capture him in a short time, or this wisp of her divine will would perish.
If it was the latter, her main body would also wake up immediately after its Sea of Consciousness was damaged and would know everything. At that time, she would definitely come over in a very short time.
While taking the young man away, she would personally capture and search for that brat. Even if the other party was dead, she would do her best to find his corpse and obtain his essence blood.
At this moment, Li Yan was also sweating profusely. Under the flashing silver light on his body, the cracked bloody wounds were constantly healing and then cracking open again.
He had already used “Quaking Cosmos” for the third time. On many parts of his body, blood was surging in the cracks, but he had firmly locked it in the wounds with his Magical Power, not letting it flow out, so as not to leave more clues for the other party to track.
But in this way, he needed to consume more Magical Power.
Li Yan had already swallowed two doses of qi recovery pills, but he had no time to refine them and could only forcibly borrow some of their effects.
Now the “Rongsun” water droplets had been temporarily used up and were slowly regenerating.
This life-saving trick of his was really effective. The other party could no longer follow him step by step as they had in the outside world.
Every time he came out of the art, the other party did not appear immediately, and the uneasy and dangerous palpitation in Li Yan’s heart had also become faint.
Li Yan did not dare to stop immediately. Every time before he used the art, he hoped that when he came out of the art, the sense of danger would immediately disappear.
It was just that until now, this feeling had only continued to weaken, but it was still there.
This forced Li Yan to be terrified every time he used “Quaking Cosmos” again.
Although he could sense a little of the scene in front of him half a breath in advance, this was undoubtedly walking on the edge of a cliff, and he might die at any moment.
“I hope that one more time will be enough to completely shake off the other party!”
Li Yan, covered in blood but with no blood flowing out, if someone were to see him with their Divine Sense here, it would be a blood man standing in a gray scene. In the gray-red color, he looked very terrifying.
He quickly glanced at the meteorite he was stepping on. In front of him was a meteorite that was only half a person tall, with a dense array of fine small pits on its surface.
The meteorite was emitting a low “buzzing” sound. If he didn’t use his Divine Sense to feel it, Li Yan couldn’t even hear it with his ears.
As these sounds were transmitted, the half-person-tall, black-as-charcoal meteorite itself was sometimes clear and sometimes blurry, often hovering between semi-solid and semi-illusory.
Li Yan knew what it was, an entrance to a spatial fragment, or an exit.
As soon as he touched it, he would be instantly sucked in. Whether he could come out again was really unknown.
Sweat dripped down Li Yan’s forehead. He was just a little bit away from entering there. The entrance to this spatial fragment in front of him was only a little more than seven zhang away from him.
It sounded like there was still quite a distance, but for a cultivator, this was almost a non-existent distance.
During the execution of the art just now, he vaguely felt that the space in front of him was somewhat different from the scenery on both sides. He immediately stopped the art. When he stopped abruptly and saw clearly the charcoal-like stone in front of him, sweat immediately poured out in layers on Li Yan’s forehead, and his entire legs were trembling. But whether Li Yan was afraid or had other thoughts, it was only for an instant.
He had finally managed to pull away, so of course he couldn’t just be afraid here.
He prayed in his heart, and with a trace of fear, his lips trembling as he cursed the stunningly beautiful woman’s eighteen generations of ancestors, he once again used “Quaking Cosmos.”
Li Yan only felt a series of scenes changing before his eyes, and then a blur of rapid rotation. These scenes were no longer like in the past, no matter how he condensed his Magical Power and Divine Sense, he could not see the scene in the picture clearly.
Now, he could vaguely see some of the scenes of the images rushing towards him, and the time he had to react was at most only half a breath.
Although Li Yan’s heart was pounding violently, in these quickly flashing images, there was nothing that made him feel palpitations.
The distance of thousands of li, for teleportation, was actually very short. But Li Yan felt as if he had gone through countless years. He both hoped to escape farther and felt that this moment was too long.
When the image in front of his eyes suddenly became clear again, the power of the laws of space outside his body was also consumed at this moment.
On Li Yan’s face, on many parts of his body, the bloody wounds had once again expanded. Under the tearing of this speed, he could only endure the severe pain.
A feeling of weakness and soreness also came from his bones. Li Yan knew that he had reached his limit. If he did it again, his bones would be shattered into pieces.
He had once again successfully avoided entering the deadly zone, but he couldn’t care about the injuries on his body at all, letting the blood in his Magical Power wrap surge.
The moment his figure stopped, his Divine Sense instantly spread out towards the surroundings!
In the next moment, a smile appeared on Li Yan’s blood-covered face, but this made him look very ferocious. This time, the feeling of being locked on had finally completely disappeared.
His luck today was really at its peak. He had used teleportation in the chaotic flow space time and time again, and had safely dodged the danger.
And with one last chance to pull away from the other party, he had finally shaken off the other party’s lock.
As soon as he had this feeling, Li Yan did not delay for a moment. A light flashed in his hand, and he quickly swiped in front of him. A dazzling light shot out from it.
Li Yan’s figure flashed, and he drilled out!
This time, he still did not use his Magical Power to tear open the void, but still used the “Sand Star King Stone.” He did not want to leave a trace of Magical Power fluctuation here.
And he would not use “Stealthy Night Art” here to hide in the vicinity. It was better to let the other party go around in circles here!
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The stunningly beautiful woman looked at the endless darkness in front of her. Her pretty face was already pale with anger.
Although she had been chasing relentlessly, the astral winds in the chaotic flow space were overflowing, and there were also various distorted and unknown spatial zones.
All of this was dozens of times worse than the external environment, which accelerated the disappearance of Li Yan’s tracks.
She could not completely follow the other party’s path. The clues she could obtain were the spatial fluctuation traces left by the other party.
And these traces would spread out in the next moment and then disappear.
It was only because she was such an expert in the laws of space that she could still find the traces after the other party had escaped ten thousand li at teleportation speed.
When she followed here later, what she sensed were the spread-out traces. This was like Li Yan was walking in a line, while what she saw was a blurry, wide range.
In the outside world, it was still a line. Here, it was a judgment direction of a range. In this way, the chaotic flow space was completely different from the outside world.
The so-called “a miss is as good as a mile” had occurred!
Moreover, on the way, twice, because she was too fast, she had almost plunged headlong into a fragment crack and a slowly rotating vortex.
This had forced the stunningly beautiful woman to use all her strength and use her spatial divine ability to influence the area in front of her for a moment, so that she could barely avoid the danger.
But in this way, the traces left by the young man in front of her became fainter and fainter. Until she reached here, they had almost completely dissipated.
The beautiful woman stood in the darkness, releasing her Divine Sense and constantly scanning, her face becoming more and more unsightly.
A wisp of her divine will from a dignified Void Refining cultivator, and an existence of the “Golden-Winged Great Peng” clan, had actually been shaken off by a Nascent Soul realm human cultivator using the laws of space.
If this matter were to get out, what face would she have to say that she was a “Golden-Winged Great Peng” in front of others, let alone mention her proud spatial divine ability.
At this moment, the stunningly beautiful woman felt an unprecedented humiliation. And this human cultivator was a prey she was determined to get.
“That damn brat who deserves a thousand cuts, I want you dead!”
The stunningly beautiful woman gritted her silver teeth. In her pair of phoenix eyes, a great sun and a shallow moon appeared again…
A few breaths later, the beautiful woman once again flashed and chased in a direction in the darkness…
After Li Yan stepped out of the space, a gloomy light circulated all over his body, quickly forming a spiritual power light shield on his body.
At this time, it was already noon outside. The sun overhead made Li Yan involuntarily squint his eyes slightly.
As his Divine Sense spread out in all directions, he found that this was a vast swamp, with dense water plants connected in patches below.
And on the surface of these water plants, even at noon, there was still a faint layer of mist, slowly moving and ethereal.
Under the faint mist, you could see the crystal clear water, gently rippling, constantly pushing or stroking the stems of the water plants…
“Hmm? This should still be the ‘Heavenly Demon Prairie,’ right?”
Li Yan sensed that this swamp was very large, but he did not sense any demonic beasts around. In the distance, some water birds were resting in the grass.
This made Li Yan, for a moment, not know where he was. It was most likely still in the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” but he just didn’t know which area it was.
His heart was still worried about that stunningly beautiful woman, fearing that she would appear at any time. Immediately, he flew quickly in one direction!
After Li Yan had briefly confirmed the surrounding situation, he decided to immediately find a suitable place and use the illusion formation “Mirror Flower” to conceal his aura.
Then, inside, he would begin to refine pills to recover his Magical Power. The injuries on his body were all caused by the tearing of space. As long as he was given time, it was not a big deal to recover.
He was now just too exhausted of Magical Power and physical strength. He could not continue to flee. He didn’t know what he would encounter ahead.
On the “Heavenly Demon Prairie,” it was better to recover to his peak state as soon as possible.
At the same time, Li Yan also felt that the beautiful woman was most likely still searching in the chaotic flow space. But as long as she didn’t chase out from the place he had come out, then there was no need to worry too much.
In the chaotic flow space, even a distance of a few li, in the outside world, you wouldn’t know where you had gone.
Li Yan flew while looking around. Not long after, he saw a patch of relatively lush water plants on this swamp covered with a layer of mist.
He felt that he could use the environment there to hide. The mist there was also relatively dense, which could also increase the concealment function.
As for Donglin Tingyue and the others, he would wait until he had recovered before contacting them.
Li Yan was not at ease meeting Donglin Tingyue and the others while he was injured. Although he had saved the other party’s life, with Li Yan’s character, he would not completely trust the other party.
With this thought in mind, his figure flashed and he disappeared from the air.
In the next moment, he appeared in the place where the water plants were lush. The mist here was thick and swirling, and the water plants were clustered together, like a sheaf of sharp green arrows pointing straight to the sky.
After Li Yan released his Divine Sense and carefully scanned the area below several times, he did not find anything abnormal, and only then did he land.
Immediately, his body came into contact with the mist, and at the same time his feet also touched the tips of the grass below.
Li Yan’s Divine Sense simultaneously communicated with the “Earthen Patch,” and he was about to take out the “Mirror Flower” illusion formation and set up a formation around him to conceal himself again.
But at this moment, an unexpected thing happened!
The mist, which was already waist-deep, suddenly tightened, like a living chain, and bound the unprepared Li Yan firmly.
Li Yan’s heart pounded wildly in an instant. He, who had always been cautious, had carefully scanned the area several times. He had not found anything abnormal in the mist or the water plants below.
His reaction was faster than his shock. His entire body’s Magical Power instantly surged, and his muscles tensed, trying to break free from these strange mists.
But to Li Yan’s great alarm, even though his reaction was extremely fast and he had instantly erupted with all his remaining Magical Power and physical strength, the force coming from the mist was even stronger, like a mountain toppling and the sea overturning.
The moment Li Yan had just exerted his strength, his entire body was dragged out with a “whoosh” sound, creating a sound of breaking through the air.
In the next moment, he had entered the water plants below. The whole process was as fast as lightning.
It was like a poisonous snake lurking in the water plants, at a certain moment, it swiftly struck out its tongue and coiled a flying insect away.
There was not even a moment’s pause. Even though Li Yan was not in his peak state at this time, he was not much different from an ordinary Late-stage Nascent Soul.
But even so, in front of that force, he was still as fragile as a mosquito!
As Li Yan disappeared, a string of bubbles rose from above a small patch of water plants with a “gurgling” sound. Many of the water plants also swayed a few times, and then returned to normal.
The patch of mist that had disappeared with Li Yan just now was replenished by the nearby mist again. The entire swamp above the water plants was once again a slowly flowing mist, silent…
When Li Yan reacted, he had already felt his body pass through a patch of water plants. He could even feel that those water plants were as hard as sharp arrows. It was only because of his tough physical body that they had not been able to harm him.
Then he was dragged into a body of water below. How could Li Yan sit and wait for death? His Divine Sense immediately communicated with the “Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike,” trying to make it cut off these mists that were binding him.
But to his horror, the moment he entered the water plants, his entire Sea of Consciousness began to churn violently, completely out of control.
He wanted to use his Divine Sense, but his Divine Sense had already become scattered. And in just this short period of time, he had already been dragged into the depths of the water.
Here, he could still see the messy grass roots everywhere. These grass roots were still constantly floating and swaying in the water.
But what made Li Yan feel strange was that his own body had suddenly become as if it had become ethereal.
Although the clusters of water grass roots were extremely dense, his body was as if it didn’t exist, passing through them.
At this time, because of the violent turmoil in his Sea of Consciousness, Li Yan’s reaction was already much slower than usual.
It was not until a few breaths later that he finally reacted. It was not that his body had become ethereal, but that these water plants might be some kind of illusion.
And just as he had just reacted, his vision suddenly darkened, and then a bright light was dazzling. The surrounding water plants and river water had all disappeared in a short moment…