Chapter 3139

Although the space-transportation divine technique of Pili Tian is formidable, it cannot function if he and the target location are completely blocked off from each other; otherwise, the transmission would fail. At the same time, he cannot penetrate from one space into another.

When did he fall into such a trap?

The Eye of Fear read his thoughts and said to him: "Just now you extinguished that ball of strong light in the air, and here a cave suddenly appeared out of nowhere, preventing even the fear power I absorbed from entering."

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Pili Tian squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth.

He still had one unresolved question: since he himself advances by instantaneous translocation, not traversing empty space and leaving no trace, how did the enemy manage to track him down?

As his words fell, a figure emerged from the corner ahead.

Aside from being somewhat taller and broader-shouldered, this person's appearance looked utterly ordinary. Thrown into the bustling official road, passersby would not give him a second glance.

But his appearance here caused Pili Tian's expression to change.

Because this person's clothes had several tears, exactly the kind caused by his spatial flying blades. In other words, this guy was the opponent he had just fought?

This person was still swaying a small grass basket in his hand, inside which a cluster of white light bounced about, unable to escape the basket.

Pili Tian immediately sensed the aura of a heavenly deity: "The Departure and Arrival God?"

This fellow actually had the soul of a heavenly deity locked in a grass basket, like keeping crickets! But upon seeing the Departure and Arrival God, he also understood something in his heart.

Of course, this grass basket must also be a magical artifact. Pili Tian furrowed his brow: "Who are you? State your name."

He could still sense that this person's aura was somewhat strange. Neither like an immortal nor resembling the martial generals of Cangyan, but rather somewhat like a heavenly deity.

A very... mixed feeling.

This person slowly walked over and stopped beside the prone heavenly demon.

The heavenly demon's vitality was tenacious; even though severed at the waist, it was still alive now. But its gaze toward this person was extremely terrified, both hands scraping on the ground as it frantically crawled toward Pili Tian.

"Divine Sovereign, save me!"

Pili Tian could sense the emotions of this heavenly demon, for at this moment the fear bursting from it surged five or six times stronger than before, all rushing toward the Eye of Fear.

He then saw this person grab the heavenly demon by the back of the neck and yank it up from the ground—

and then stuff it into his mouth!

This action was so swift that Pili Tian hardly had time to see it clearly. But a human mouth certainly could not accommodate such a large object.

The heavenly demon's cry for help cut off abruptly, the cave fell into an eerie silence, save for the grating sounds of this person chewing raw meat and broken bones. "Who exactly are you?" Pili Tian asked, "No, what exactly are you?"

Strangely, he felt a sense of familiarity from this person before him.

"You don't recognize me?" the person chuckled lightly, "You haven't always wanted to take me as a vessel for divine descent?"

Having already tracked down his target, he casually put away the grass basket.

This is one of the treasures lent to him by the Red General to deal with Pili Tian.

The Departure and Arrival God can trace the origins and trajectories of divine techniques and abilities, but what it tracks is not Pili Tian, but the Eye of Fear!

The fear factors on the southeastern battlefield of Lingxu City all converge toward the Eye of Fear, and in the view of the Departure and Arrival God, this spectacle is more splendid than the evening clouds, almost impossible to mistake.

As for Pili Tian's fondness for instantaneous translocation, the Red General had also mentioned it to him. This tracking is indeed difficult, but advancing by instantaneous translocation means Pili Tian does not take detours, and from Mount Xushan to the southeastern gate of Lingxu City is not far, so he will most likely proceed straight ahead.

The ambushers only need to wait for him on this line, and all will be well.

"Vessel for divine descent?" Pili Tian furrowed his brow, suddenly recalling:

"Shuangye? You are actually Shuangye?"

Before the previous large-scale divine descent, the Holy Mother of Jin Du had already died in the mortal realm. At that time, even the Holy Sovereign of Lingxu believed Shuangye was dead, because the lives of Jin Du Mother and Child were linked; when the mother died, the ghost offspring could not possibly survive. Although Pili Tian felt regret, at that time he had already secured a vessel for complete divine descent, so he did not think further.

Unexpectedly, Shuangye stood alive and vigorous before him once more, and her cultivation had advanced greatly!

"Just the two of you, thinking to stop me?" Pili Tian chuckled, "Ji Ju, you dare betray us—I will surely dig out your heart-core and inlay it into my treasure ring!"

When the War Alliance attacked Mount Xushan, the Great Fire Spirit refused to aid the Heavenly Palace, leading to Mount Xushan's swift fall. This grudge, the heavenly demons have already recorded, and I did not expect Ji Ju now to dare escalate further.

He seized the dharma ring and waved it a few times; the mandala flower petals inside scattered outward, transforming into over a hundred cutting threads.

Whatever the cutting threads touch, whether person or object, will be instantly severed!

The Fire Spirit and Shuangye recognized the danger, retreated a step, and immediately merged into the stone wall, vanishing from sight.

The cutting threads sliced into the stone wall, carving deep fissures.

But immediately afterward, the fissures on the stone wall disappeared at a visible speed, as if smoothed by an invisible pair of hands.

Could this mountain stone also possess self-healing ability?

Pili Tian made several more cuts, then questioned the Eye of Fear: "Why didn't you seize the opportunity earlier to deal with them?"

"The Fire Spirit is a clone, and my fear techniques are ineffective against it." the Eye of Fear replied, "As for that other entity, I am still seeking its inner weakness!" "This flesh-eater is merely a base offspring of a lower god born in the mortal realm—you should be able to see through it at a glance!" Pili Tian knew, however, that the Eye of Fear had previously released only a wide-range fear divine ability on the Lingxu battlefield; it also possesses the ability to target individuals, known as "Fearful Gaze"!

Whoever is singled out by this gaze, whether human or god, will have their innermost shadow unearthed, which the Eye of Fear then exploits to the fullest.

Pili Tian has indeed suffered from this before.

"You are mistaken; it is not simple." the Eye of Fear's voice also turned solemn, "I glanced at its inner self earlier—something was off, there was nothing at all."

"What do you mean?" Pili Tian, despite his rich experience, could not grasp this statement, "Barren as a corpse?"

"No, no, it merely hides itself well." the Eye of Fear no longer explained, "You must lure it out, fight it more! Prolong the time, then I can truly capture its fear!"

This strange cave obstructed its perception; the flesh-eater hid within the stone wall, thus escaping its probing.

In the past, Pili Tian would not have regarded the mixed offspring of a lower god as worth noting, but the flesh-eater is different!

Seeing Shuangye's figure emerge again from the stone wall, Pili Tian suddenly understood:

"Recently, heavenly deities have been disappearing one after another—originally it was you behind it!"

He had originally intended to take Shuangye as his own vessel for divine descent, and of course understood the nature of the flesh-eater. Flesh-eaters, in the brief period after birth, are typical of "consume the strong to become strong," so during this time, the people of Lingxu often received reports of heavenly deities mysteriously vanishing.