Translator: CinderTL
The sun-chasing spear flashed with blinding light, its tip aimed directly at Chi Pei's chest.
Though his divine soul was severely wounded and wracked with agony, Chi Pei refused to succumb entirely to the pain. In this life-or-death moment, he struggled to maintain a sliver of clarity.
A yellow-earth Talisman suddenly appeared in his hand.
As a wisp of spiritual power flowed into it, the Talisman shattered, coalescing into a yellow-earth protective shield around him.
Clang!
The sun-chasing spear struck the shield with a deafening impact.
A shockwave erupted, dust billowed, and the entire mountain cave trembled violently, sending countless loose rocks tumbling down.
Ripples spread across the shield's surface, making it appear on the verge of collapse, yet it held, though it was sent hurtling backward.
Chi Pei, shield and all, crashed into the cave's rocky wall, shattering through the mountain's crust and flying out into the open air.
Song Wen gave Chi Pei no chance to recover. He pursued relentlessly, channeling all his strength and spiritual power into the sun-chasing spear. Using the spear like a staff, he swung it down with brutal force.
The shield shattered instantly, dissolving into motes of spiritual light that scattered in all directions.
The sun-chasing spear continued its descent, crashing down on Chi Pei's head.
Chi Pei's skull burst open like an overripe watermelon.
Song Wen's gaze sharpened. Not a drop of blood flowed from the shattered skull.
This was another Substitute Puppet.
Song Wen immediately unleashed his divine sense, scanning the surroundings. Within moments, he detected Chi Pei's presence dozens of miles to the southeast.
The Life Substitution Art could teleport a person to any location within the range of their divine sense.
Yet Chi Pei had only moved a few dozen miles. Song Wen's divine sense, though weaker due to the miasma, still covered a radius of about one hundred and twenty miles. This clearly indicated that Chi Pei's divine soul had suffered severe damage, rendering him unable to freely control his divine sense.
Song Wen moved swiftly, pursuing Chi Pei relentlessly.
As the distance between them narrowed, Song Wen noticed Chi Pei wasn't fleeing. Instead, a green phantom shadow rose above his head.
The phantom shadow, several dozen feet tall, resembled a monstrous serpent with nine heads.
Chi Pei was activating the Ten Thousand Poisons Body technique to resist the corrosive effects of the Soul-Scattering Smoke and Red Dust Fragrance on his Sea of Consciousness.
Song Wen wasn't surprised that Chi Pei had mastered this cultivation method. After all, Song Wen had once helped him search for the Corroding Heart Cold, and he had suspected as much back then.
As the Ten Thousand Poisons Body circulated, Chi Pei seemed to gradually suppress the spreading poison. The agony on his face faded, replaced by a sinister, venomous expression.
"Ye Hua, this young master will remember this debt. One day, I'll make you wish you were dead, but you won't even get that!"
As he spoke, a blood mist gradually enveloped him, obscuring his figure.
"Blood Escape Technique!" Song Wen's eyes narrowed, instantly recognizing the secret art Chi Pei was using. "Trying to escape? Not so fast!"
Massive waves of blood erupted beneath Song Wen's feet, surging rapidly toward Chi Pei's location.
In an instant, the Blood Sea had spread over a hundred miles.
The crimson tide then expanded upward and downward, swiftly forming a hemispherical barrier that covered a hundred-mile radius.
Just as the barrier solidified, a ripple appeared on its southeastern edge, as if something had collided with it.
The next moment, Chi Pei's figure materialized.
"Blood Sea Seal!" He stared at the crimson barrier, his expression darkening. "Ye Hua, who are you really? How do you possess the Blood Sea Seal?"
Chi Pei's mind churned with suspicion and uncertainty. He couldn't help but wonder if "Ye Hua" was a fellow disciple from the Divine Blood Gate, harboring a deep-seated grudge and having deliberately followed him to the Qicang Domain to seek revenge.
Yet, after racking his brain, he couldn't recall any Divine Transformation Stage cultivator within the Divine Blood Gate who matched "Ye Hua"'s description.
What was particularly astonishing was that Ye Hua's Blood Sea Seal could manifest a Blood Sea spanning a hundred miles in radius. How much blood essence had he refined to achieve such a feat?
Refining the Blood Sea Seal required the user to personally refine and purify the blood essence collected from living beings. This was an extremely time-consuming and arduous process that could not be delegated to others.
"Who I am is irrelevant. Today, you must die," Song Wen declared, standing outside the barrier. As his thoughts flowed, several tentacles, each over ten feet thick, erupted from the barrier like massive whips, lashing out at Chi Pei.
Chi Pei's expression remained grave but showed no panic. He held a black talisman in his hand, its surface faintly crackling with Thunderlight. Tossing the talisman into the air above his head, he shattered it with a flick of his wrist.
Instantly, a blinding sphere of Thunderlight erupted. The sphere rapidly expanded to a colossal size, transforming into a hundred-foot-tall orb resembling a sun forged from lightning, suspended in mid-air.
A silver Thunder Pillar, over ten feet thick, erupted from the thunderous sphere, surging toward the heavens. The pillar struck the barrier's dome, causing it to tremble violently, flickering like a candle in a storm, its stability as fragile as a stack of eggs.
Seeing this, urgency flashed in Song Wen's eyes. The thunder talisman Chi Pei had activated was undoubtedly a fifth-tier high-grade talisman, its power formidable. Moreover, thunder magic inherently countered the Blood Sea Seal to some extent.
The barrier created by the Blood Sea Seal wouldn't hold for much longer!
Song Wen immediately channeled all his energy into controlling the tentacles, lashing them at Chi Pei with increased ferocity.
As long as Chi Pei was captured, it wouldn't matter if the Thunder Pillar broke through the barrier.
Chi Pei activated another Thick Earth Talisman, conjuring an earth-yellow protective shield.
Snap!
A Blood-colored Tentacle struck the shield, causing it to flicker but not shatter.
Snap! Snap! Snap!
Multiple tentacles lashed out in succession, battering Chi Pei through the air.
On the fifth strike, the shield finally buckled and shattered with a thunderous crash.
Yet Chi Pei's expression remained calm, his gaze fixed expectantly on the sky above.
At that very moment, the Thunder Pillar finally pierced through the barrier created by the Blood Sea Seal.
The barrier shattered into crimson blossoms that rained down like blood-red petals, even the tentacles extending from it disintegrating into nothingness.
"Ye Hua, whoever you are! I swear on my divine soul that one day, this young master will avenge this humiliation!"
As his words faded, silver Talisman fragments drifted from Chi Pei's hand, erupting in a blinding silver light.
Bathed in the radiant glow, Chi Pei's figure gradually faded into transparency before vanishing completely.
A Minor Teleportation Talisman? Song Wen wondered inwardly.
He couldn't be certain if Chi Pei had used a Minor Teleportation Talisman, but all signs pointed to it.
Chi Pei, as a core disciple of the Divine Blood Gate, possessed an extraordinary array of life-saving measures.
The Minor Teleportation Talisman could teleport him at least three hundred miles away.
Song Wen's divine sense couldn't reach such a distance.
Yet his expression remained as calm and composed as ever, his confidence unshaken.
(End of the Chapter)
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