At that very moment, due to the absence of the Firepower Flying Disc, the tornado fully took shape, turning into a towering whirlwind hundreds of meters high and over fifty meters in diameter, sweeping towards them.
"It's chasing us..." Jiang Yiyi exclaimed, her face pale, as the tornado seemed like a monstrous entity of this world to her.
"It's the cold air, caused by the cooler..." Zhao Jiayan said, also very tense.
Yang Yuan, with a grave expression, silently manipulated the Firepower Flying Disc to speed up.
However, the tornado at the back also sped up, growing larger, persistently clinging close behind them, constantly exerting a strong pull.
"Hold tight!"
Yang Yuan shouted, holding Jiang Yiyi with one hand and gripping the steel cable with the other, loudly telling Zhao Jiayan.
"Got it!" Zhao Jiayan replied nervously.
"Whoosh, whoosh!!"
The terrifying tornado behind them kept expanding, its diameter swiftly increasing from fifty meters to eighty meters, then a hundred meters, two hundred meters, three hundred meters...
And its height swiftly soared from two to three hundred meters to five hundred meters, eight hundred meters, fifteen hundred meters...
Even—
Gradually, it seemed to touch the sky and the earth, twisting and turning, relentlessly pursuing them.
"What the hell is that?!"
Some tens of kilometers away, eight superpower users traveling saw the tornado reaching the sky and the earth, all showing expressions of astonishment.
"Looks like a tornado!"
"What a gigantic tornado..."
"It seems to be growing bigger."
"Look, the tornado seems to be chasing something..."
The eight of them looked into the distance, surprised to find a 'tiny figure' desperately fleeing ahead of the sky-reaching tornado, seemingly about to be engulfed at any moment.
"Isn't that the Firepower Flying Disc?"
"There's something hanging below the Firepower Flying Disc..."
"Seems like a person... Could it be those three from before?"
"Have they done something so outrageous or offended the deities of this world?"
"Hahaha... Why do I feel like laughing?"
"Hahaha... Just laugh if you want to..."
The eight couldn't help but laugh at others' misfortune, feeling the resentment from being forced to battle monsters earlier dissipate.
Even the ice-cold beauty Wu Chengxin couldn't help but look gleeful, as she had been quite tormented by the Firepower Flying Disc, turned into a tumbling gourd by the wind it created.
She now also felt a sense of revenge fulfilled, unable to hold back her laughter.
"Whoosh, whoosh..."
At this moment, the place where the eight were located also started to get windy.
Moreover, the wind was becoming stronger.
The slightly chubby man 'Yueyue' laughed with Schadenfreude, "Even here it's getting windy; how formidable must that tornado be?"
"Haha, I'd really like to put myself in their shoes, I bet it's really tough..."
Tan Zhiming laughed loudly too, feeling a sense of delighted revenge.
The others also couldn't help but laugh, inexplicably feeling a rush of exhilaration from having revenge served.
However—
They soon couldn't laugh anymore.
Because they realized, even though the tornado wasn't directly pursuing them, it was rapidly enlarging, increasingly having an end-of-the-world feel.
Then—
The sky-reaching tornado began affecting the atmospheric region, causing its diameter to inflate like a balloon.
"Oh no, it's getting windy here too..."
The eight all had a bad premonition and hastily sped up.
But soon, they began to feel chills up their spines.
Because the nearby sand and stones were being blown up into the air.
Even the gigantic scorched trees were snapping in the wind.
More and more vegetation was being whirled up high.
Even the eight of them seemed in danger of being blown away.
"Oh crap..."
"Run away!!!"
"Tan Zhiming, you jinx..."
"Tan Zhiming, damn you!!"
"Tan Zhiming, damn your mother..."
The eight were terrified, and except for the somewhat reserved Wu Chengxin, the other six were cursing at Tan Zhiming's jinxing mouth, frantically fleeing, almost flying.
But as their bodies flew forward, their souls seemed to chase from behind.
Because the cataclysmic tornado was about to engulf them, driven by the world-ending storm it induced.
"Ahhh!!!"
"Yueyue, quickly use your superpower..."
"If used, it'll teleport us to where we were ten minutes ago. Are you sure you want to use it?"
"No, don't!!"
"Tan Zhiming, damn you!!"
"Damn it, I'll curse all your moms..." Tan Zhiming also was enraged, arguing with everyone while desperately fleeing.
"Ahhh... Tan Zhiming, damn your mom!!!"
The eight were all lifted into the air, whirling madly like the flying dust everywhere.
At the critical moment, Wu Chengxin acted, summoning metal wires to connect them all together, preventing them from being scattered.
"Whoosh, whoosh!!"
The tornado behind them had reached an astounding thousand meters in diameter and was still expanding.
As for its height, it truly reached the sky and the earth, with the world's very thick atmosphere allowing such a devastating tornado to form.
It was now like an energy source quickly charging it up, making it inflate like a balloon.
...
"Whoom—"
Finally, the Firepower Flying Disc picked up speed, reaching an astonishing speed of two hundred meters per second, completely shaking off the tornado behind them, rapidly pulling away.
"Hold on tight, don't get blown away by the wind!"
Yang Yuan shouted, continuing to control the Firepower Flying Disc to move away, while glancing back at the sky-reaching tornado.
He saw that after being shaken off, the tornado finally stopped chasing them, instead wandering aimlessly through the high-temperature zone.
Wherever the thousand-meter-wide tornado passed, withered, brittle giant trees were swept up into the sky, absorbed into the tornado's core.
That area turned into a true storm of flying sand and rocks, with the whole world seeming submerged in a sandstorm.
Although the tornado's diameter was just over a thousand meters, the atmospheric region it influenced far surpassed this range.
Several tens of kilometers away, a wild wind was blowing, making it seem as though the whole world was in a sandstorm.
At this point, the sun had completely set, and under the evening glow, the Firepower Flying Disc took them rapidly away.
"Is this... a man-made natural disaster?"
Zhao Jiayan muttered, her lovely face turning a bit pale, holding onto the steel cable firmly, fearing being blown away by the storm, subconsciously shrinking her body, feeling very cold.
Because the temperature in their area remained just ten degrees, with the whirlwind howling during rapid movement, chilling her to the bone as though it were the depths of winter.
And indeed, it was the dead of winter, but the appearance of the Drought Fiend had caused the high-temperature disasters.
Yang Yuan didn't answer because he was pondering something.
That is, the cooler was still with them. As long as it remained, the massive temperature differences would persist. Clashing hot and cold air currents could very well cause the tornado to reappear.
Then, they might constantly face the predicament of being chased by tornadoes.
Zhao Jiayan also thought of this issue: "Should we get rid of the cooler?"
"Absolutely not, the outside temperature is over a hundred degrees Celsius. If you really throw away the cooler, you'll be roasted alive."
Yang Yuan refuted this option: "Let's first find a place with dense trees to settle, places like that aren't easy for tornadoes to form. I'll see if I can limit the cooler or remake one that isn't so exaggerated."
And before that, sufficient water storage was necessary, as a cooler without a high enough level couldn't condense moisture.
Of course, if everything went smoothly, he planned to directly fly out of the high-temperature zone in one go. Since they had the Firepower Flying Disc as a vehicle, their speed was swift.
But he was a bit worried that after leaving this zone, they might encounter strong beasts.
This world isn't as peaceful as it seems now; currently, over ninety percent of creatures have fled this area due to the high-temperature disasters.
Otherwise, in this Barbaric World, without sufficient strength, it's virtually impossible to take a single step.
"Over a hundred degrees Celsius..."
Zhao Jiayan looked at the outside air's distorted environment, feeling a chill down her spine.
The Firepower Flying Disc sped forward, completely leaving the tornado behind.
Not wanting to be too conspicuous, Yang Yuan deliberately moved away from the main group's path, circumventing a hundred kilometers, intending to directly cross the Endless Mountain Range, escaping the high-temperature zone in one go.
Before long, they flew out of the Stone Mountain District and entered a plain area.
Due to sparse vegetation in this region, and given their position wasn't high, they immediately saw the ruins of buildings below.