Chapter 140: Falling Short of Success

The person launching the sneak attack from behind.

Was none other than the sole surviving leader of the Yin Puppet Tribe, the Yin Puppet King.

The Yin Puppet King had only barely survived the energy explosion of thirty fifth-order Nuclear Blast Pills by relying on a fifth-order protective formation and a sixth-order protective talisman.

Yet even so, the Yin Puppet King was already severely injured; otherwise, he would not have used a precious sixth-order talisman against Ye Qingxuan.

While there was certainly wariness toward Ye Qingxuan involved.

The greater reason was that the Yin Puppet King was too heavily injured at this moment, his strength greatly diminished, and he did not want to take risks, wishing to settle the matter in one strike.

But he had not expected that Ye Qingxuan would have detected his presence from the very beginning, and had even taken out a sixth-order talisman to deal with him a step earlier.

The collision of energy from the two sixth-order talismans caused the expressions of both Ye Qingxuan and the Yin Puppet King to change simultaneously, and they both retreated backward.

As Ye Qingxuan retreated, he once again activated a fifth-order protective talisman, condensing a fifth-order energy shield around himself.

The Yin Puppet King opposite him did the same.

Although he was a Nascent Soul realm cultivator himself, he was currently severely injured, with less than one percent of his strength remaining, so the defensive power of his own shield naturally decreased as well.

Therefore, the Yin Puppet King also activated a fifth-order talisman to protect himself.

"Boom— Bang—"

The intense sound of energy clashing resounded through the sky once more, though the energy fluctuations this time were much weaker.

The fifth-order protective talismans could easily block the energy ripples left after the two sixth-order talismans had countered each other.

After the first exchange, Ye Qingxuan did not stop.

Looking at the Yin Puppet King in the distance, who could not even control his own injuries, Ye Qingxuan launched another sixth-order talisman at him.

This time, the Yin Puppet King's expression changed drastically, because he had no other sixth-order talismans left.

If there were no sixth-order talisman to cancel out the suppression inherent in a sixth-order talisman.

In his current state, he would absolutely be unable to shake off the suppression of the sixth-order talisman and could only take its power head-on. Looking down at his own condition, a miserable, bitter smile appeared on the Yin Puppet King's face.

Watching the Yin Puppet King, who had run out of trump cards, Ye Qingxuan could not help but show excitement.

If he could hunt down the Nascent Soul realm Yin Puppet King, plus a few Golden Core realm Green Demon corpses, he would absolutely be able to advance to the peak of the Golden Core realm after offering them as sacrifices.

The moment the sixth-order talisman in his hand was triggered, Ye Qingxuan felt as if he had already seen the fruits of victory.

But the next moment, Ye Qingxuan's expression changed abruptly.

Sensing the spatial fluctuations beginning to churn around him, Ye Qingxuan cast a reluctant glance at the Yin Puppet King, who was about to fall, and took out another fifth-order displacement talisman.

Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Qingxuan directly activated the fifth-order displacement talisman in his hand.

As a light shone, Ye Qingxuan's figure instantly vanished from the spot, while at the same time, the Yin Puppet King opposite him was struck by the sixth-order talisman Ye Qingxuan had triggered, his life force gradually dissipating.

The next moment, with the churning of spatial fluctuations, a Green Demon of the Deity Transformation realm with an overwhelming aura suddenly appeared.

In a world at the level of a Small Thousand World like the Demon Realm, a Deity Transformation realm cultivator could already tear through space to perform void travel.

After the Deity Transformation realm Green Demon arrived, he glanced at the Yin Puppet King's corpse, which had completely perished and was falling downward, and casually collected the corpse.

Then, sensing the spatial fluctuations of Ye Qingxuan's talisman displacement, he sneered and said:

"You slaughtered my tribe, and you still want to run?"

Immediately, he took a step forward, his figure vanished, following the spatial fluctuations produced by the displacement talisman Ye Qingxuan had activated to track him.

On the other side.

After Ye Qingxuan landed, he did not stop and activated another fifth-order displacement talisman.

The reason he did not activate a sixth-order displacement talisman was that Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base was too low.

He had already used two sixth-order talismans in succession; if he used a third sixth-order talisman, his spiritual power would be exhausted.

By then, once he was tracked, he would truly lose the ability to resist. Ye Qingxuan did not believe that a single sixth-order displacement talisman could shake off the tracking of a Deity Transformation realm cultivator.

After all, a sixth-order talisman was ultimately just an external force; how could it compare to the cultivation and abilities of a Deity Transformation realm cultivator?

The light of the fifth-order displacement talisman shone again, and Ye Qingxuan's figure vanished once more with the light.

With a time difference of less than a few seconds, the figure of that Deity Transformation realm Green Demon appeared once again at the spot where Ye Qingxuan had just vanished.

Sensing the churning spatial fluctuations again, a playful smile appeared on the face of this Deity Transformation realm Green Demon, and he said softly:

"Human ant, I want to see how many more displacement talismans you have."

Then he took a step out, following the spatial fluctuations, and tracked in the direction Ye Qingxuan had fled once again.

After Ye Qingxuan landed for the second time, sensing the spatial fluctuations behind him again, he did not panic.

He calmly took out five fifth-order displacement talismans and activated them all at once.

Activating five fifth-order displacement talismans simultaneously directly consumed a large amount of Ye Qingxuan's remaining spiritual power.

Ye Qingxuan's face turned pale, and the Supreme Grade spirit stone he had been holding in his hand continuously replenished his consumption.

With the activation of the five fifth-order displacement talismans, Ye Qingxuan threw four of them in different directions, while he himself held onto only one.

Five rays of light flashed together, and Ye Qingxuan's figure vanished again.

After landing again, Ye Qingxuan did not continue to activate the fifth-order displacement talisman.

Instead, he fled into the nearby mountain range at his limit speed, found a small crack, and operated the minor divine ability "Deceiving Heaven" to completely conceal his aura and figure.

After waiting for a moment, the figure of that Deity Transformation realm Green Demon appeared not far above Ye Qingxuan. After sensing the fluctuations around him, he frowned and said: "Still not here? Chose wrong again?"

Then his figure vanished again, returning to the previous location to choose another direction to pursue.

And Ye Qingxuan, who had been lurking and hiding, did not immediately get up and leave, but remained lurking in place.

Sure enough, after a moment, that Deity Transformation realm Green Demon appeared again, a wisp of aura appearing in his palm, and he said suspiciously: "Still nothing? That human ant has disappeared? Interesting!"

The wisp of aura in his hand was left behind when Ye Qingxuan was fleeing in a hurry and did not have time to clear it.

It was not difficult to intercept an aura that had not been cleared; it just required a little time.

He had originally thought that tracking Ye Qingxuan would be easy, so he had not wasted time intercepting the aura Ye Qingxuan had left at the Yin Puppet Tribe from the start.

But he had not expected to lose Ye Qingxuan's trail in the end.

So he could only return to the ruins of the Yin Puppet Tribe again, specifically to intercept Ye Qingxuan's aura to track him.

He had not expected that even with the help of the aura, he still could not find Ye Qingxuan's trail.

Scanning the surroundings, after his spiritual sense swept through an area of nearly ten thousand miles, he confirmed that he had not found the figure of that human ant.

This Deity Transformation realm Green Demon felt that he had been toyed with, forcibly suppressed his anger, and said in a deep voice:

"Human ant, don't let me meet you next time, humph!"

With an angry snort, he took a step out, left the place, and vanished.

He did not continue to search for Ye Qingxuan's trail.

Having confronted the Deity Transformation battle teams of the Di Xuan Realm for many years, he naturally had some understanding of the extremely strong concealment methods of those Deity Transformation battle teams in the Di Xuan Realm.

Since the other party had already shaken off the tracking and successfully concealed themselves, if they did not take the initiative to appear or strike again, he would have no way to easily find the other party.

What he had not expected was that an ant below the human Deity Transformation realm would dare to come to the Demon Realm and act recklessly.

What he had expected even less was that this human ant could successfully escape from his hands, causing him to lose his dignity.

However, having captured the other party's aura this time, he would absolutely not miss next time.

(End of chapter)