Chapter 130: 128. Escaping the Clutches (1/2)

128. Escaping the Clutches (1/2)

Chen An ran, running extremely fast.

He did not dare to use Sword Flight, because that would be too exposed, making him an easy target, and hovering in the sky offered too little room for maneuvering.

Running on the ground, however, provided plenty of terrain for hiding or for shaking off an enemy's pursuit.

"This little Foundation Establishment cultivator runs quite fast."

The woman in the purple dress watched Chen An as he moved further and further away, showing no anxiety at all, only a calm, charming smile.

Soon, she lightly lifted her slender Jade Foot from beneath her skirt and took a small step forward.

The next instant.

The flowers and plants around her suddenly shifted and changed, like the scenery outside a high-speed train window, instantly blurring into a smear.

And all of this happened in the moment she lifted her leg.

When her exquisite Jade Foot, clad in a purple embroidered shoe, touched the ground, she, who had originally been hundreds or thousands of meters behind Chen An, instantly appeared in front of him.

Shrinking the Earth into an Inch!

"Young Master, where are you going?"

The woman in the purple dress parted her red lips slightly, her beautiful eyes holding a hint of a superior looking down, her delicate, flawless, and pure-yet-alluring face full of playfulness.

Looking at the woman in the purple dress with her enchanting smile ahead, Chen An's heart instantly plummeted to the bottom.

When did she catch up?

Why didn't my Divine Sense and sensory perception react?

The gap in strength is too vast!

I'm going to fall here today!

Chen An's heart was filled with despondent thoughts.

Fortunately, these thoughts were fleeting.

The next moment.

Without a second thought, he turned around and ran, continuing to flee.

He thought of his wife and daughter at home; as the head of the household, he still had to go back to take care of them, how could he fall here?

Even if the hope was slim, he had to escape!

If he couldn't escape, he would bow his head and become this woman's subordinate.

If that didn't work, then he would fight to the death and go all out against her!

"It's a pity I am only a Gold and Fire dual-element Spirit Root cultivator right now and haven't learned the corresponding escape techniques."

"If only I still possessed Earth and Wood Spirit Roots, then I could have learned the Earth Escape Technique and Wood Escape Technique, which would give me an absolute advantage in running away in these mountains and forests."

Chen An thought to himself while fleeing.

And behind him, the woman in the purple dress just stood there, watching him run away, a smile like a cat playing with a mouse appearing at the corners of her mouth.

After he had run over a thousand meters away, the woman in the purple dress finally lifted her slender Jade Foot again and took a step forward, unhurriedly.

The next instant, she appeared directly in front of his path of escape.

"Young Master, do you still want to keep running?"

The woman in the purple dress kept a smile in her eyes, not worried at all that Chen An would escape from her palm.

Chen An stopped; he stopped running.

He knew that he could not outrun the woman in the purple dress before him.

The result of running would only be one thing: wasting the Spirit Power in his body for nothing.

"Those who understand the times are wise."

Seeing Chen An stop, the woman in the purple dress smiled in a way that was both pure and alluring.

She took enchanting steps and walked toward Chen An with a charming smile, her voice as pleasant as a warbler's: "Don't worry, I won't torture you. I will only consume your vital essence. Once I'm full, I'll stop. As for whether you can handle it, that depends on how vigorous your vital essence is."

Just as the woman in the purple dress was about to reach him.

Chen An saw the shadow beneath her feet and suddenly remembered that he still possessed a Dharma Spell called the Shadow Kill Technique.

So, without thinking, he moved his mind and used the Shadow Kill Technique.

At the same time, he also used the Breath Concealment Technique.

Then, his entire person instantly vanished on the spot and dove into the shadow beneath the woman's skirt.

"Eh? Where is the person?"

The woman in the purple dress was a bit confused.

Then, she immediately opened her Divine Sense and sensory perception to the fullest, searching for Chen An's figure incessantly.

Little did she know, Chen An was hiding in the shadow beneath her skirt at that very moment.

Feeling the powerful Divine Sense radiating from the woman, Chen An did not dare to move a muscle the entire time, constantly doing his best to restrain his aura and empty his thoughts.

He was terrified of being sensed by her.

"How strange, why did this human male cultivator suddenly disappear?"

"Is it haunted?"

The woman in the purple dress searched for quite a while, but she could never sense Chen An's presence, and she felt it was inconceivable.

Refusing to believe it, she searched for a while longer, but the result was still that she could not find a trace of Chen An.

Helpless, she had to give up and left, feeling quite frustrated.

During this time, Chen An kept hiding in her shadow, restraining his aura, and only when he noticed a spirit mouse darting past nearby did he move his mind to transfer into the shadow of the spirit mouse.

"Hmm?"

The woman in the purple dress suddenly stopped her steps, her pair of slender willow eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Just a moment ago, she had sensed Chen An's presence.

But it was fleeting, and it vanished without a trace very quickly.

"An illusion?"

The woman in the purple dress was utterly baffled.

On the other side.

Chen An had already gradually moved away from the woman in the purple dress, following the movement of the spirit mouse.

Not until he could no longer see the woman in the purple dress at all.

Did he then stir his thoughts, emerge from the spirit mouse's shadow, and rush straight toward the direction of his home.

"That was truly dangerous just now; fortunately, I know the Shadow Kill Technique and the Breath Concealment Technique, otherwise, I would definitely have been in grave danger and drained dry by that fox demon."

"Thinking about it now is truly terrifying."

"That said, I wonder what the view beneath the skirt of that woman in the purple dress is like; if I hadn't been afraid of being sensed by her Divine Sense just now, I definitely would have looked up to get a good observation."

Chen An thought about these random things in his heart and soon returned to the tunnel in his home.

He had originally thought about wandering around those abandoned wooden houses to see if he could collect some daily supplies.

But out of caution, he ultimately dismissed this idea.

He thought about staying in the tunnel for ten days or half a month first to observe the situation outside before deciding.

In any case, the supplies currently stored are enough to last for a year or so.

"Husband, why did it take so long to return?"

Just as Chen An walked to the open area in the center of the tunnel, Wen Zhiyun walked over holding their daughter, Chen Yike, and asked.

Song Huaying also walked over, her little face full of worry as she said, "Husband, I have been using the Sound Transmission Talisman to contact you just now, but you didn't respond; did something happen up there?"

Shen Qingyi and Gu Xinyue did not speak, but both cast their gazes onto Chen An, waiting quietly for him to speak.

Chen An did not intend to hide it and said truthfully:

"I just encountered a fox demon up there that survives by feeding on the essence of human males; the spiritual pressure radiating from her body reached the Golden Core Stage, and she had nine tails growing behind her, suspected to be the legendary Nine-Tailed Fox Demon."

Nine-Tailed Fox Demon?

Upon hearing these four words, his wives and concubines all revealed expressions of surprise.

This is a legendary great demon.

Not even one can be found among ten thousand fox demons.

How could one possibly appear in the Red Cedar Forest?

Husband must have seen it wrong!

The wives and concubines all thought this in their hearts.

Among them, Shen Qingyi asked, "Husband, is it possible that you saw it wrong?"

"If it really were a Nine-Tailed Fox Demon, then how did you escape from her hands just now?"

Shen Qingyi has a relatively straightforward personality and has always spoken her mind directly.

She did not doubt that Chen An was lying, she just had doubts in her heart.

Chen An thought for a moment and said, "I shouldn't have seen it wrong; there were indeed nine tails, but whether it is specifically a Nine-Tailed Fox Demon, I am not too sure about that either."

"It should just be an ordinary fox demon," Shen Qingyi said, then continued to explain: "The Nine-Tailed Fox Demon is the supreme existence among fox demons; many fox demons yearn to become a Nine-Tailed Fox Demon and often use some tails to decorate themselves to experience the posture of a Nine-Tailed Fox Demon."

Was it really just a decoration?

Chen An recalled the scene he saw earlier of the woman in the purple dress descending from the sky; he remembered that the nine tails behind the other party were moving at the time, and for a moment, he could not guess the other party's identity.

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