As the Universe Turns - Chapter 343
Chapter 343 One Step Away from Life and Death
Soon, the nine people behind him also appeared in the blood mist. However, the nine of them were not restrained by the blood mist. In a hurry, Xiao Chen bit the tip of his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood essence. The blood essence immediately formed a blood curtain in front of him. The blood curtain broke the restriction, causing him to rush out in an instant.
This was naturally not a Xuanqing Sect technique, but a technique from Xiao Cangtian’s Nine Yin Nine Yang Profound Technique that sacrificed blood essence to break the restriction.
“He ran away again …”
Xue Yanzi’s face was slightly shocked. He didn’t expect that this person would actually be able to break through his Blood Soul Restraint. Just how many secrets did this kid have on him?
“Chase!”
The three of them quickly chased after him. Xiao Chen had just used up his blood energy. At this moment, his face was pale. Seeing the three of them rushing out of the blood mist, he did not think carefully and formed another seal with his fingers. In an instant, he executed the Instant Step Cosmos and disappeared into the vast world.
“You’ve escaped another thousand miles … have you seen it clearly this time? Is it a spell or a magic treasure?”
The three Dao Harmonization Realm elders stopped and asked themselves if it wasn’t for the Life and Death Zhui Ming Talisman, Xiao Chen would have already escaped from their sight twice, and they wouldn’t have been able to catch up.
“I just saw him forming a seal … Could it be some kind of lost technique?”
Ghosts and gods said in a gloomy tone. The other two focused their eyes. They knew that there was only one technique that could instantly escape a thousand kilometers. That was the Thousand Miles Blood Escape Technique. However, this technique consumed a lot of blood essence. No one could use it twice in a row.
“Continue to chase after him!”
Xuan Yunzi’s eyes turned cold. At this moment, the three of them made up their minds. In their eyes, no matter how powerful this junior was, he still had the Life and Death Zhui Ming Talisman on him. Even if he was like a turtle in a jar, he would never be able to escape.
However, they were no longer in a hurry to capture him. Rather, they had to force him to use all of his abilities. In this way, when they captured the other party, no matter if it was a cultivation technique or a magic treasure, they would not miss anything. Otherwise, like yesterday, if they captured this person directly from the beginning, how would they know that this person actually possessed such a powerful Thousand Miles Escape Technique?
Ten days passed like this. In these ten days, Xiao Chen had to execute Instant Step Cosmos almost every other day, so that he could escape the pursuit of three Dao Harmonization Realm experts. During this period, he had also used the Blood Transformation Needle to kill two elders at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm. To this day, there were only seven people left on the other side.
During this period of time, he had used the Instant Steps Cosmos so frequently that his True Essence hadn’t dried up as usual. On the contrary, this feeling of dying almost every time made his comprehension of the Concept clearer.
However, he had sacrificed his blood essence to break the restriction on the three of them, causing his face to turn pale and blood-colored. If he continued to wear away like this, he would definitely die. However, where was the vast mountain range right now?
Originally, his plan was to arrive at the Imperial Capital of Yun Country first and find a way to remove the Life and Death Zhui Ming Talisman from his body. But now, it had been ten days. He had been heading east, but not a single trace of the Imperial Capital could be seen. Instead, he was getting farther and farther away from the prosperous area of Yun Country. It was obvious that the map he had bought in the black market was wrong.
“Little friend, you don’t need to run anymore …”
Right at this moment, a divine sense entered his mind through the Life and Death Zhui Ming Talisman. Xiao Chen’s face immediately turned even paler. The three of them caught up again. It was obvious that they were less than a hundred miles away from him. To the three of them, a hundred miles away was only a fraction of an ordinary person’s cultivation.
Today, Xuan Yunzi and the others had roughly figured out his background. They did not plan to pursue him anymore. They wanted to capture him alive today so that they wouldn’t have to sleep too long. From their point of view, this matter was already very easy, because the other party had run out of tricks.
At this moment, Xiao Chen’s face was pale. He could feel that his comprehension of the Undying Concept was about to break through another level. At that time, his cultivation would definitely break through another realm, and he would even directly reach the Void Refining Dao Combining Realm.
At that time, he only wanted to kill the three of them in one thought, but before he broke through, he was definitely not a match for the three of them.
He knew this very well, so he had to find a place to make a breakthrough. Otherwise, if this continued, he would be exhausted at the expense of convenience. But now that he could not reach the Imperial Capital, how could he temporarily avoid the pursuit of the three of them?
The auras of the three of them gradually approached, causing the clouds in the distant horizon to surge violently. At this moment, Xiao Chen’s heart was beating faster and faster. This time, he truly felt the feeling of wandering between life and death!
Ku Lingzi was right. The cruelty of the Eastern Cultivation World was far from being comparable to the Immortal Origin Five Regions. This was a place where strength was respected. If he was caught up to by those three people today and was unable to break through to the next realm, then he would undoubtedly die. However, if he was lucky enough to break through to the next realm today, then those three people would undoubtedly die.
This feeling of life and death was only a step away. Today, he finally realized that in the past, he had never experienced life and death so intensely, nor had he ever felt such a strong desire to survive.
In the past, regardless of whether it was jumping off the Immortal Burial Cliff, crossing the boundless Death Desert by himself, being hunted down several times in the Immortal Northern Ancient Realm, or everything he had experienced back in the Immortal Origin Five Regions …
None of the things that had happened in the past allowed him to experience life and death as deeply as he did today. Even then, he didn’t put life and death in front of him at all.
But today, at this moment, his desire to survive was stronger than ever, because if he wanted to live, he had a reason to live … He wanted to bring Fusang Flower back to save Wei Yang!
“Boom!”
The ground suddenly trembled violently. The auras of the three Void Refining and Dao Harmonization Realm elders were approaching. Xiao Chen quickly calmed down. Without any hesitation, he instantly twisted his fingers and formed a seal. His figure disappeared from where he was. When the incantation of Instant Step Cosmos was completed, his figure had already appeared more than 200 miles away. He could only teleport for more than 200 miles. This was his greatest limit today.
“This is …”
When Xiao Chen arrived at an unknown mountain range, he sensed an abnormal Spiritual Energy fluctuation. He instinctively extended his Spiritual Sense out. However, just ten miles away, it was blocked by an extremely powerful restriction.
After sensing that restriction, he immediately knew that he was saved today, because this restriction was enough to block his divine sense, and it was also enough to block the Life and Death Zhui Ming Talisman!
He didn’t hesitate any longer and immediately headed towards the restriction. When the time came, he was slightly shocked by the scene in front of him. Spiritual Energy was constantly leaking out from the valley in front of him, and tens of thousands of people were filling up the cracks in Spiritual Energy. These people … were actually the people who were brought into Yun Nation to seek refuge last time!
Apart from these tens of thousands of people, there were also countless troops from Yun Nation, as well as the two Void Refining and Dao Harmonization Realm Orthodox cultivators. Xiao Chen faintly felt that something was amiss. How could Earth Grade Cultivation Realm leak out Spiritual Energy for no reason? I’m afraid there’s something fishy about this. Yun Nation is not filling in the Spiritual Energy crack. Instead, he is using the Spiritual Energy crack as a cover to do something …
However, right now, he couldn’t care less. He had to think of a way to enter and temporarily avoid the pursuit of the Ten Fire Elders of the Devil Flame Sect. Right now, it would be his only chance to break through to the next realm.