Hum, hum, hum …
Waves of sword cries resounded as the sword light wrapped around Ye Chen and shot out. It was as if an aurora had pierced through heaven and earth, traveling several li in an instant.
"Success!"
Ye Chen was overjoyed. His consciousness sunk into his body, and he immediately felt the Green Lotus Zhen Yuan turn into Zhen Yuan threads, continuously fusing into the sword light and propelling his body forward.
At this moment, his speed doubled.
"What!"
The three behind him were shocked. Before, their speed was still above Ye Chen's, and they were about to catch up. But, they did not expect that Ye Chen had performed some kind of secret art, and his speed had skyrocketed, leaving them two miles behind in the blink of an eye.
"Damn it, we can't let this kid get away!"
Shen Tujue roared. The martial will that had condensed into the embryonic form of his martial spirit was added to his Zhen yuan, and his flying speed also increased drastically. Although he could not catch up to Ye Chen immediately, he did not think that Ye Chen would be able to persist. As long as he did not fall too far behind, he would eventually catch up.
Pei Youdao and Gold Rock had also cultivated some secret techniques to increase their speed, so they were far behind Ye Chen and Shen Tujue.
"There's a conveyor gate below!"
After flying for several hundred li, Ye Chen gradually felt that he couldn't take it anymore. Seeing a conveyor gate below, he dived down without thinking.
Puchi!
The incomparably sharp sword light wrapped around Ye Chen, slicing through several high-rank blood demons. Less than ten meters away from the conveyor gate, Ye Chen immediately stopped the flow of Zhen Yuan, dispersed the sword light around him, and stepped into the blood-red whirlpool.
On one of the islands of the Bloodstone Islands, Ye Chen's figure appeared out of nowhere.
"Shen Tujue was only thrown a few dozen li away by me. After six or seven breaths, he will be transported out. Ambushing him here will only cause him some injuries at most, and won't be able to kill him in one go. Once I'm entangled with him, the other two will come out, and it will be too late."
The thought of ambushing him flashed through his mind, but Ye Chen immediately rejected it. He flew towards the boundless lake, making everyone on the island confused.
Not long after, Shen Tu Jue was teleported out.
"Which direction did that kid escape to?" Grabbing an Astral Reaching expert with his Zhen Yuan hand, Shentu Jue sternly shouted.
The captured Astral Reaching Realm warrior pointed to the left in panic, "There!"
"Hmph!"
Tossing the other party aside, Shen Tu Jue burst forth with speed, heading in the direction the other party was pointing at.
Soon after, Pei Youdao and Gold Rock came out. The people in the vicinity observed their expressions, and hurriedly pointed in the direction that Ye Chen and Shen Tu Jue had left.
When the two of them walked far away, the crowd started discussing.
"What's going on? The core elders of the three rank 6 sects seem to be chasing after that young man."
"It's probably a conflict of interest!"
"Conflict of interests? That young man is merely twenty years old, yet he managed to provoke three Extreme Astral Reaching Realm warriors to hunt him down. No matter what the consequences are, this kind of means is enough to make people gasp in admiration. "
…
Above the boundless Star Region Lake, Ye Chen's body was sparkling. His Zhen yuan kept shattering and splashing everywhere.
"Sure enough, the Sword Light Flying Art is still very unstable. Being able to use it before was largely due to luck."
The Sword Light Flying Art was a secret art that Ye Chen had created when he felt that his attack speed surpassed his movement speed. The key point of this secret art was to link his body with the condensed sword light and then launch an attack. In this way, he could theoretically catch up to the speed of the attack.
However, Ye Chen was still unable to perfectly link his body with the sword light. The balance between the two was hard to grasp.
"My speed is only a bit slower than Shen Tu Jue's. If I keep this distance, he won't be able to lock onto me and launch an effective attack."
Unable to use the Sword Light Flying Art, Ye Chen wasn't impatient. Blazing Zhen Yuan, his figure turned into a wisp of black smoke, lightly sweeping through the air.
Twenty li away, Shen Tu Jue saw Ye Chen's figure from afar. His voice, wrapped in Zhen Yuan, transmitted out at an unimaginable speed, "Leave behind the Blood Evil Stone. Otherwise, today will be the day of your death."
Ye Chen didn't say a word.
"Bastard, go die!"
Shen Tu Jue punched out. The boundless fist energy was like a long dragon, rapidly approaching Ye Chen.
Peng!
His Protective Zhen Yuan slightly distorted. Under the effect of the fist energy, Ye Chen's speed didn't decrease, but instead increased, increasing the distance between him and Shen Tu Jue.
"Damn it!" Shen Tu Jue clearly understood what was going on. Although an Extreme Astral Reaching expert's attack was powerful, if the distance was too far, there was no way to guarantee one hundred percent of its might. When that fist landed on Ye Chen's body, it only had thirty percent of its might remaining.
Since his attack couldn't do anything to Ye Chen, Shen Tu Jue didn't waste any more time. He focused all his attention on increasing his speed, closing the distance bit by bit.
Dozens of li behind Shen Tu Jue, Pei Youdao and Gold Rock caught up one after the other.
In the Blood Demon Battlefield, Blood Evil Beasts would only appear once every few decades. Each time, they would appear, at most a dozen or so. They and the deceased White Bone Ghost General had killed eleven Blood Evil Beasts in total. The remaining ones were hidden in the depths, and weren't easy to find. Moreover, even if they killed all the remaining Blood Evil Beasts, the Blood Evil Stone they could obtain wouldn't even be worth half of that Blood Evil Stone. Otherwise, they wouldn't have mobilized so many people to chase after Ye Chen.
"If I knew it would be so troublesome, I would've joined hands with Shen Tu Jue to kill this kid." Activating his Zhen Yuan, Gold Rock thought bitterly.
Pei Youdao wasn't too angry. What should be his would be his in the end. What shouldn't be his, as long as he tried his best, everything would be fine.
The four, one in front and one in the back, flew at extreme speed.
Passing Astral Reaching experts, upon seeing this scene, all stopped in the vicinity, looking at each other in astonishment.
…
Unknowingly, several hours had passed, and the sun was slowly setting in the west.
Stuffing a Zhen Yuan replenishing Seven Star Pill and a meridian repairing Wonder Spirit Pill, Ye Chen turned his head to look back. Shen Tu Jue was persistently chasing after him. The distance between the two was gradually closing in on the ten li mark. At this moment, neither side was burning Zhen Yuan. Astral Reaching experts rarely burned Zhen Yuan for more than half an hour, as doing so would result in enormous side effects. Ye Chen was able to maintain a distance of more than ten li thanks to his tyrannical body. To a certain extent, he could burn Zhen Yuan for a quarter of an hour more than Shen Tu Jue. Otherwise, he would've been overtaken two hours ago.
"The Blood Demon Battlefield is at the border of South Rudra Region. After a few hours of flying, I should be sixty to seventy thousand li away from South Rudra Region."
At Ye Chen's level, the speed of rushing at full speed was extremely frightening. Of course, very few people would rush at full speed under normal circumstances. This was due to endurance.
…
Another few hours passed by, and it was already deep into the night.
"Haha, little bastard, let's see where you can run now. Dragon Elephant Strike!" Closing the distance of seven to eight li, Shen Tu Jue raised his Zhen Yuan and punched at Ye Chen.
Peng!
After half a day of rushing, Ye Chen was already exhausted. Adding the numerous attacks he had received before, the internal and external injuries were constantly corroding his body. His soul power had clearly sensed Shen Tu Jue's attack, but he was unable to effectively dodge it, and thus received the punch.
Spurting out a mouthful of blood, Ye Chen's mind was a bit muddled.
"Hold on a little longer!"
Relying on his powerful sword will, Ye Chen bit the tip of his tongue and forced himself to be clear-headed. He numbly operated his Zhen Yuan, maintaining his peak speed.
Shen Tu Jue was also very tired. However, he believed that the first to fall would be Ye Chen.
"Suppress for me!"
Raising his right hand, he smashed down from the air, and an elephant condensed from Zhen Yuan loudly descended.
"Break!"
Gathering his remaining strength, Ye Chen pulled out the Thunder Sword and slashed at the Zhen Yuan elephant.
Rumble!
A powerful shockwave radiated out, and Ye Chen's figure swayed incessantly. Shen Tu Jue once again caught up to him. The distance between the two was less than five li.
"Damn it! My Zhen Yuan is about to be exhausted!"
The Seven Star Pill could indeed replenish Zhen Yuan, but there was a subtle conversion process involved. After such a long time of rushing, the impurities within Ye Chen's body were quite numerous. His Zhen Yuan refining speed was horrifyingly slow, and it had already reached the point of being one disaster after another. On the other hand, Shen Tu Jue was at the peak of late Astral Reaching realm after all. His Zhen Yuan was a bit more vigorous than Ye Chen's, and there was no lack of better pills than the Seven Star Pill in Floating Mountain. Therefore, his situation was much better than Ye Chen's.
Seeing Ye Chen's speed slowing down, Shen Tu Jue was overjoyed. Pei Youdao and the Gold Rock were dozens of li away from them. After killing Ye Chen, the Blood Evil Stone inside the half-beast Blood Evil Beast's body was clearly his. In the future, he could rely on this Blood Evil Stone to condense a true martial soul.
Laughing heartily, Shen Tu Jue didn't attack Ye Chen. He wanted to maintain his Zhen Yuan advantage, and couldn't waste it.
Inside his dantian, the Zhen yuan core started to dim. The Green Lotus Sword Qi that was revolving around the core seemed to have sensed that Zhen yuan was running out, so it started to shatter in an orderly manner, merging with the core and barely providing enough Zhen yuan for Ye Chen. However, if it went on like this, the Zhen yuan formed by the Green Lotus Sword Qi would not be able to last for too long.
One disappeared.
Two disappeared.
Three disappeared.
…
Six disappeared.
"Only one Green Lotus Sword Qi remains." In the Blood Demon Battlefield, Ye Chen had used a total of two Green Lotus Sword Qi. Of the remaining seven, six had been transformed into pure Green Lotus Zhen Yuan, and only one remained, revolving around the Zhen Yuan core.
Just as he was about to reach the end of the line, a huge fog suddenly appeared before him.
Ye Chen did not even think about it before rushing in.
"Where do you think you're going?" Shen Tu Jue didn't think too much and charged into the fog.
"Something's wrong!"
The next moment!
Shen Tu Jue's face was overwhelmed with shock as he shot out.
Looking around, Shen Tu Jue muttered, "This is the Star Regional Lake's Bewilderment Fog Forbidden Zone, a path of no return for Astral Reaching experts. I almost fell in."
Soon, Pei Youdao and Gold Rock appeared.
Gold Rock said doubtfully, "Shen Tu Jue, I lost him."
Pei Youdao shook his head with a grave expression, "This is the Bewilderment Fog Forbidden Zone. It's thirty thousand li wide. Even Sea of Soul realm experts would have to spend a long time to come out."
"Bewilderment Fog Forbidden Zone!"
The night was too dark, and Gold Rock didn't pay much attention to it. Hearing Pei Youdao's words, he immediately discovered the abnormality of the fog. The radiating of his spirit power was unexpectedly restricted by ninety percent. Normally, he could radiate ten li, but now, he could only radiate one li.
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