Chapter 1386: Hunting Envoy, Escape!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
While it was sound theoretically, reality was cruel!
It was probably because Xiao Leng’s speed was too fast that the Demon-Killing Battle Kings behind could not catch up at all. Furthermore, they had to stop occasionally to kill Netherworld Envoys. Hence, Jiang Yi flew unstably for a few minutes but did not see anyone else at all.
Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+
A slight air-splitting sound rang as the spatial zone beneath started to tremble slightly. Jiang Yi’s face darkened as he felt a stench of cold and evil aura swiftly nearing. Without saying, a black demonic beast was approaching.
Buzz!
The Fire Dragon Sword appeared in Jiang Yi’s hand as he shot out tens of thousands of tiny fire dragons downwards. Fire dragons filled the skies as they wailed down, dispersed the black fog, and lit up this side of the sky. Jiang Yi could clearly see an ugly black demonic beast flying towards him.
Originally, as he had been with Xiao Leng, Jiang Yi had not needed to attack himself. Thus, he had not really felt how terrifying this black demonic beast was. At this moment—facing it alone, Jiang Yi immediately felt different. His heart started to race as if it was about to jump out while his whole body was shaking. It wasn’t because he was terrified on the inside. It was more because this black demonic beast’s aura made Jiang Yi instinctively feel frightened.
“Divinity Slayer!”
The black demonic beast’s speed was extremely fast. Jiang Yi gritted his teeth, and he withstood the fear in him and sent out three fire dragons. These three fire dragons were evidently much bigger; their auras were also at least two times stronger. Now that Jiang Yi had reached the G.o.d General Realm and his heavenly powers had been upgraded, it was also normal that his Divinity Slayer had grown stronger.
“Tsk—”
Three fire dragons soared forward. Unfortunately, that black demonic beast moved like the wind and twisted and turned in the sky, evading the three fire dragons and continuing its advance towards Jiang Yi. Its speed was so fast that within a second, its black, sharp claws had reached Jiang Yi’s face.
“Merged Flames!”
Jiang Yi did not have a choice anymore. He could only use his most powerful move. If the Merged Flames could not burn this black demonic beast, Jiang Yi would die here.
The Merged Flames this time were those he had combined the Golden Geocentric Flames from the Demon Fire Mountain with two other types of flames. There had been ten b.a.l.l.s of these Merged Flames initially. Having used some in the Drizzling Mountain Ridges, Jiang Yi was left with four b.a.l.l.s of Merged Flames now. This was his strongest attack at present.
“Tsk! Tsk!”
Once the Merged Flames appeared, its power was instantly evident. Hot waves of air caused turbulence in the air as the black fog in a five-kilometer radius was all dispersed. That black demonic beast was now only a few hundred feet from Jiang Yi. When the burning flames had appeared, it had stopped, terrified, and wanted to turn to flee. However, the Power of Heaven and Earth in Jiang Yi was swiftly activated as Jiang Yi’s speed immediately increased exponentially. He quickly flew towards the black demonic beast. Although his flying was still rather unstable, he still managed to pull close the distance between him and the demonic beast as he sent the Merged Flames in his hand forward.
“Uh…”
The black demonic beast emitted a strange cry full of pain and suffering as its body was turned into ashes. However, at the last moment, its mouth opened; and it spat out a spew of black fog. That black fog formed into a sharp arrow that shot towards Jiang Yi. Although most of it was dispersed by the flames, a small portion of them entered Jiang Yi’s body.
“Netherworld Aura!”
Jiang Yi was shaken; he did not dare to be careless. If the Netherworld Aura was to attack and overcome him, he would become a creature of the Netherworld Realm. No one in heaven and earth would be able to save him then. He immediately released his Xiaozhuan characters, and they appeared just as the Netherworld Aura surged into him. The Xiaozhuan characters’ golden glow enveloped his entire soul spirit consciousness: however much Netherworld Aura entered, they were immediately purged and cleansed. None managed to even get close to Jiang Yi’s primordial spirit.
“Alright!”
Jiang Yi breathed out in relief. It seemed as if the Nameless Divine Art had a very strong Yang character that was naturally a counter to the Netherworld Aura. As long as he wasn’t controlled by this aura, getting hurt or even getting killed were acceptable to Jiang Yi. After all, once someone was controlled by the Netherworld Aura, that person would become a lackey for the Netherworld Realm; that would really be akin to a living h.e.l.l.
“Eh?”
After the Netherworld Aura had been completely cleansed, Jiang Yi then opened his eyes and saw a black pearl floating in front of him. This Netherworld Pearl was actually so brittle and strong that it had withstood the Merged Flames.
“Go!”
Jiang Yi did not dare to remain here for long. His attack had been quite loud; if he attracted a few black demonic beasts that came and attacked, he would not have enough flames to deal with so many. He continued to fly back to the starting point to find that group of Demon-Killing Battle Kings.
What bewildered him was… he had flown for a full five minutes, but he had not encountered a single person. He felt as if he seemed to have lost his sense of direction within the black fog. The surroundings were so dark that his heartbeat very fast as he stopped in mid-air, not knowing whether to proceed or retreat.
After standing there for tens of seconds, Jiang Yi gritted his teeth as he changed course again and decided to look for Xiao Leng instead. Being close to Xiao Leng would be much safer for Jiang Yi. If he continued to fly about like this and could not find anyone from the Demon-Killing Pavilion—with him having lost contact with Xiao Leng, he would definitely die here.
However—
After flying for another ten minutes, Jiang Yi found out to his astonishment that he could not even locate Xiao Leng.
He had only been flying for five minutes just now while his current direction was accurate. He had followed the exact same path back. However, Xiao Leng was nowhere to be found. There were only three explanations. Xiao Leng could have been killed by a Netherworld General, the two had changed a battleground, or a maze had been set up in this abyss that could make people get lost in it.
“Oh, no!”
Jiang Yi thought about how he had flown for so long but had not seen a single member of the Demon-Killing Pavilion and had a bad premonition. A powerful Netherworld General could have created a maze in this abyss, making anyone who entered it lose their sense of direction. It was going to be very hard to escape from this maze unless the formation used to build it was destroyed!
Destroying it should not be a problem. That a.s.sistant Pavilion Lord seemed to be extremely strong. He was at the very least a mid-tier Battle G.o.d. However, this took time. Jiang Yi only had three b.a.l.l.s of flames left. If he encountered another four Netherworld Envoys, he would be finished.
“What should we do?”
Jiang Yi thought for a while but could not think of anything. He could only grit his teeth as he continued flying forward. He could only try his luck and see if he could meet Xiao Leng or the formidable martial artists from the Demon-Killing Pavilion.
Jiang Yi’s luck was not very good!
After flying for another fifteen minutes, Jiang Yi did not encounter anyone else but had actually met another two black demonic beasts. They used up two more b.a.l.l.s of his Merged Flames. Although he managed to defeat them, he did so barely; and he was growing more and more serious. He had only one ball of Merged Flames left. If he encountered even two more enemies, he would become a helpless scholar that could be killed anytime.
“Where did everyone go? There are a few hundred people, and I have not even met one? This is too strange!”
The surroundings were pitch-black. Jiang Yi frantically continued to search in every direction as he felt as if he was seeing things. No matter how big this abyss was, so many people had entered. Furthermore, they were all very fast. It couldn’t be that he had not even met one person in such a long time.
“Could Xiao Leng really have died in battle? If not, why has he not come to look for me after so long?” Jiang Yi had a bad feeling about all this. This time, he had thought that with Xiao Leng accompanying him, he was absolutely safe. However, he did not imagine things would come to such.
“Wu-wu~”
From away, an ear-splitting roar could be heard. It jolted Jiang Yi from his thoughts. Following that, an extremely frightening aura came from the front to the left. Jiang Yi was instantly taken back as he was so afraid his soul almost flew out of his body. That was the aura from a Netherworld General.
“Hunting Envoy, escape!”
A howl came traveling by from even further away. It was the voice of the Blue Eagle Prefecture Pavilion Branch a.s.sistant Pavilion Lord. Jiang Yi did indeed want to flee. However, as the Netherworld General’s powerful aura had already enveloped him, Jiang Yi could not move at all. He could only watch as a huge skeletal giant shot forward crazily towards him.
“I am done for!”
Although half of this skeletal giant’s body had been blown into bits and one of its legs was already broken, its might was still extremely powerful. A casual blow from it could probably kill Jiang Yi easily!