Serpent Ancestor

Since there were other hidden experts around who could arrive at any moment, Xu Hei immediately decided to stop engaging with this person and escape directly.

Xu Hei increased his speed to fifty percent, quickly widening the distance between them.

Without using the Earth Escape Technique, this was already his full speed!

Mu Lei, who was chasing from behind, suddenly had a change in expression.

"Is he really going to escape?"

Mu Lei was anxious. He had hoped that the other party would stay and fight him, giving him a chance to hold him back.

But Xu Hei didn't even try to test him and fled at full speed, completely beyond his expectations, rendering all his preparations useless!

"Stop right there!"

Mu Lei pointed his thunder seal, sending out a bolt of lightning that blasted a large pit in the ground ahead, but Xu Hei had already disappeared from sight.

"Chase him!"

Mu Lei gritted his teeth and used the Earth Escape Technique with all his might, pursuing forward.

Under Mu Lei's full-speed chase, the distance between them finally began to close, but it was consuming a lot of his energy.

"You little brat, do you really think you can escape? If you have the guts, stay and fight me! I don't even need a magical treasure to kill you!"

Mu Lei cursed from a distance, not caring whether Xu Hei could hear him or not.

Xu Hei sneered inwardly. If the opponent had maintained fifty percent speed, he would never have counterattacked and would have immediately fled.

But full-speed pursuit was different; it meant leaving no room for retreat.

"You're courting death!"

Xu Hei suddenly stopped, using the Earth Escape Technique to eliminate inertia, then turned and charged directly at Mu Lei.

His speed was unbelievably fast, almost twice that of Mu Lei!

"What!"

Mu Lei was shocked, but he reacted quickly, pointing his thunder seal and sending out a bolt of lightning that blasted a large pit ahead, dirt flying and creating a hollow space.

"Boom!!!"

The lightning was so close that not only did Xu Hei get struck, but even Mu Lei was affected, spitting blood and being thrown back, landing in the scorched earth.

A deep pit, thirty meters wide, had appeared.

Mu Lei immediately looked up ahead.

He saw Xu Hei standing quietly in the hollow space, his body charred black, surrounded by a shattered golden light shield, the golden shield talisman.

However, the golden shield talisman clearly couldn't block all the lightning.

Mu Lei's face darkened, and he was about to activate the thunder seal again.

Suddenly, Xu Hei opened his mouth, and a dense black flame shot towards Mu Lei's face.

Fireball Technique!

This simple basic spell, in Xu Hei's hands, displayed an unimaginable power. As the black fire emerged, the air twisted, and the dirt melted into lava, like hellfire, sweeping towards Mu Lei.

"What kind of sorcery is this?!"

Mu Lei was horrified, as if he had seen a ghost. He instantly took out a jade pendant and held it in front of him.

"Gravity Technique!"

Xu Hei's eyes were bloodshot, and he shouted inwardly. The Gravity Technique descended, acting on the jade pendant in Mu Lei's hand.

Mu Lei felt a thousand-pound force pressing down, causing the jade pendant to deviate from its position and slip from his hand.

Everything happened too fast, too fast for Mu Lei to think or grab the jade pendant, and the Fireball Technique had already arrived.

"Boom!!"

The flames surged, igniting a fifteen-meter-wide black fire, completely melting the dirt behind Mu Lei, with lava flowing out. Mu Lei let out a piercing scream.

Hearing this scream, Xu Hei didn't feel any joy; instead, his face darkened.

Being able to scream meant he wasn't dead!

Sure enough, Xu Hei focused his gaze and saw the jade pendant shattered, forming a soft white light shield that protected Mu Lei's body.

However, the jade pendant's position had deviated slightly, and the light shield didn't fully protect Mu Lei's body.

His left arm, left shoulder, and part of his body were outside the light shield, completely melted in the flames, burned to nothingness.

All of this was caused by the slight deviation of the jade pendant, with Xu Hei's Gravity Technique playing a crucial role. Otherwise, Mu Lei might have been unharmed.

"Damn, just a bit more!"

Xu Hei sighed inwardly. He had only practiced the Gravity Technique for three days. Given another week, he could definitely move the jade pendant completely.

Having failed to kill in one strike, Xu Hei didn't hesitate, immediately grabbing Mu Lei's storage bag and diving into the earth to escape.

Three breaths after Xu Hei left.

An old man, burning with a blood-red aura, descended into the pit. He glanced at the severely injured Mu Lei, his face expressionless, and helped him up.

"It's all my fault. I failed to protect you."

Chen Daoling, with a blank expression, gave Mu Lei a pill and carried him on his back.

"Don't worry, I will avenge you!"

Chen Daoling flashed and dove into the earth, chasing forward.

His Divine Sense spread out, instantly covering over a hundred meters, quickly locking onto the rapidly fleeing Xu Hei.

For the first time, Xu Hei felt the other party could detect him while he couldn't detect the other party, feeling a Divine Sense collide with his, filled with murderous intent.

Xu Hei's Divine Sense could reach ninety meters, indicating the other party's Divine Sense exceeded a hundred meters.

"A Divine Sense over a hundred meters, what level of cultivation is this?"

Xu Hei's mind raced.

Such a Divine Sense had surpassed the late Qi Refining Stage, likely an old monster who had been stuck at the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage for countless years.

As for Foundation Establishment, Xu Hei believed he couldn't provoke such an existence yet.

"Young one, I underestimated you. I left my disciple with so many life-saving treasures and repeatedly warned him not to underestimate you, yet he was still almost killed."

"If you surrender, you can keep your life."

From afar, Chen Daoling's Divine Sense transmitted.

Xu Hei treated these words as nonsense, without any intention of mocking. Under the dual effects of the Earth Escape Technique and his physical strength, he fled forward at unprecedented speed.

"Eh? You actually mastered the Earth Escape Technique, how strange!"

Chen Daoling was inwardly surprised.

His speed also suddenly increased. Chen Daoling had practiced for many years, mastering the Earth Escape Technique to a level far beyond ordinary people.

Under his full-speed pursuit, even Xu Hei could clearly feel the distance closing.

Not only was speed an issue, but True Qi consumption was also a major problem.

Xu Hei had been continuously using spells, and with his current True Qi, he could only sustain it for half an incense stick's time!

Soon, Xu Hei's Divine Sense could already capture the other party, an old man in a Daoist robe, with the injured Mu Lei on his back.

Xu Hei's eyes flickered, and he changed direction, heading towards a large mountain.

Ninety meters, eighty meters, seventy meters...

Before long, the distance between them was only fifty meters.

At this moment, a rocky area appeared ahead, full of hard granite.

In such terrain, the Earth Escape Technique was difficult to use. Xu Hei immediately emerged from the ground, his figure flashing towards the cliff above.

The next second, Chen Daoling also emerged from the ground, his eyes narrowing. He was in a canyon, with towering cliffs on both sides.

"Boom!!!"

Suddenly, it sounded like an explosion overhead, smoke filled the air, and the canyon shook.

Immediately, countless rocks fell from the cliffs on both sides, crashing towards Chen Daoling.

"Not good!"

Chen Daoling's face changed, hurriedly dodging back, but more and more rocks kept falling, blocking his retreat completely.