Chapter 1371: Run!!

Whoosh!!

Under the piercing sound of breaking air, the sharp sonic boom resembled a stretched violin note, narrow and urgent.

Far faster than sound.

The cloud layer falling from the sky seemed to be pierced, a large expanse of turbid red-metal cloud stretched into a single straight line.

From the ground, the sky now seemed to have a huge monster plummeting at extreme speed!

Thanks to the early-spreading mental power alert, Lin An almost immediately detected the abnormality in this area!

Feeling that terrifying force, almost without thought, an extreme suppressive chill madly sprouted from the depths of his mind.

Like being locked by a deadly poisonous snake, on his suddenly changed expression, Lin An instantly felt a strong killing intent rushing toward him!

"Fourth Stage Advanced! Only a Fourth Stage Advanced entity could possibly make him feel this way!"

In that instant, Lin An's muscles tensed all over, his whole body seeming frozen in a fortress, stiff in place!

It wasn't that he was scared to this extent, but rather he simply couldn't act rashly!

He couldn't understand why an Alien Species of this level would appear in this area.

At this moment, Lin An could only desperately run his thoughts, trying to find a viable path to survival!

A Fourth Stage Advanced Alien Species already surpassed Dominion-level, approaching King-level!

If his information is correct, this Alien Species now charging is likely the last super combat power left by the Alien Species world!

Misfortune isn't enough to describe his current situation.

Unable to tell whether it was a coincidence or he was locked on, at this moment Lin An could only burst with white light in his hand, gripping his twin swords tightly.

He had long prepared for crisis, but such speed truly exceeded his expectations.

"What to do!?"

"Space Instant Transfer escape!? Accelerated escape!? Or hide!?"

"Do I have some mark on me? Or are there unseen eyes inside the fortress monitoring me? Or perhaps it's pure coincidence!?"

Under hyper-effective thought, Lin An desperately considered the most likely possibilities!

He must determine the situation in the shortest time, then choose to flee!

There is no room for desperate effort.

If it were a Dominion-level Alien Species, perhaps he still had a bit of info to fight, the outcome uncertain; but facing a Fourth Stage Advanced, Lin An clearly knew how huge the gap between them was!

Just taking the energy intensity he now senses as an example, this far exceeds his speed; he likely doesn't even qualify to entangle, and will have his head blown apart instantly!

Under at least tenfold suppression of spiritual energy, rules, and flesh, his fate won't be any better than these Alien Species!

"It's definitely coming for me! And likely it has already locked onto my aura!"

"Even if it's just a coincidence passing by, bumping here... as long as it sees the corpses in the fortress, even a fool would realize my existence!"

"Hiding in place is too dangerous!"

Within seconds, under hyper-effective thought, Lin An instantly rejected the intention to hide by isolating his aura.

He had no doubt that to kill him, these Alien Species would absolutely carry out the crazy act of destroying the whole area. If it were him, upon sensing a possible trace of himself here without detecting any escape signs...

... he would, in the shortest time, indiscriminately bombard the entire area, cleansing everything!

Rather than mistakenly kill and let go, this is the basic combat quality of any strong one!

"Void Walk, Blink Instant Transfer—can it be done!?"

"No... If uncertain of the opponent's perception limit, and the distance isn't enough, it would equal completely exposing that I am Lin An!"

If the only thing that can be called good news now is.... Lin An faintly realizes, this terrifyingly extreme Super Alien Species probably still isn't sure of his identity!

The incoming dive's speed, though exceeding his speed limit, still falls far short of the limit power of a King-level Alien Species.

If it truly knew he was Lin An, the moment it discovered him, this Fourth Stage Advanced Alien Species would likely go all out, directly mobilizing the strongest rules to begin bombarding the earth.

Rather than like now, still having the mind to first come down and inspect.

"So, the greatest probability is... it noticed the fortress's deathly aura too heavy, realizing something went wrong here!"

"Unsure whether I caused it, it chose to personally inspect!"

"From this, we can infer..."

His eyes flickered rapidly.

With only the available information, Lin An quickly confirmed a correct logical line.

He was simply unlucky, just happening to encounter a King-level Alien Species nearby!

Moreover, the opponent happened to be personally patrolling, and just happened to appear in this direction!

Damn it! The continent he randomly entered is likely the edge continent personally guarded by those few Super Alien Species!

Information summed up, confirmed.

Like a human-shaped supercomputer, after Lin An rapidly confirmed the information, his heart suddenly tightened.

No need to confirm a lock on him!

No need for so-called eyes to see him!

Eternal Body! Rule Coverage!

With resolve firm, almost seizing the most precious escape time, Lin An unhesitatingly employed over ninety percent of the Eternal Body rules, instantly isolating his surrounding aura from the entire world.

Just like an artificial black hole, it severed any influence of energy and matter upon himself!

The constant effect originally meant for defense, he now used as a concealment means, suddenly shrouding himself.

The next second, accompanied by successive intense bodily compression sounds, Lin An allowed his muscles and bones throughout to be compressed to the limit, forcibly shrinking himself to palm size, then launched a Blink toward the ground!

Dual casting! Blink!

Buzz buzz buzz buzz—!!

After several consecutive barely audible spatial hums, in the blink of an eye, like embedded in underground strata, Lin An instantly appeared a kilometer underground.

Without any thought of conserving blink opportunities, in an instant he again rushed straight to the depths of the earth's core!

Concealing his aura, wrapping his whole body, shrinking his target, he blinked to escape!

In one smooth motion, he almost vanished from his original spot the moment the enemy rushed into the air above the fortress, instead appearing within a layer of hard crust!

The entire escape process could be called precisely efficient to the point of making one's hair stand on end!

This whole set of escape maneuvers was also an escape method he had prepared long ago!

With only a limited space in his brain retained, Lin An endured the intense pain radiating from his whole body, not even glancing at the super alien species rushing down at that moment, and in an instant he again dove into the dimensional space!

By opening such a distance, his probability of being discovered upon re-entering the dimension would be much lower.

After all, if void walking were like opening a door in place, it would leave obvious traces that take time to dissipate.

That blink ability is more like an accelerated recombination state, essentially leaving hardly any traces!

As long as the enemy, upon descending to the fortress, first scans his true escape route and then searches the entire underground area, even if this alien species is incredibly strong, it cannot possibly realize that Lin An has already escaped!

Of course, the premise is that this alien species has no special rules!

At the very least, it cannot have spatial rules!!

In less than a second, as the entire black fortress, resembling a snake's head, was deformed by pure pressure with a creaking sound.

779 kilometers away, Lin An strode out of the void, gasping heavily, and his originally shrunken body rapidly expanded.

Gazing at the distant storm that could be called a phenomenon, Lin An took a deep breath and, without hesitation, accelerated into a ground-hugging sprint.

Although there was no combat or fighting, merely a one-sided escape.

But feeling that his internal reserve of rule power had dropped to the warning point, Lin An could only give a bitter smile, silently clenching his fists.

Too dangerous...

No one knows how perilous his recent experience was.

If his reaction were just a bit slower, what awaits him now would likely be a pursuit by fourth-stage high-level forces...

Don't even speak of how long he could escape under the enemy's pursuit; just with all the fourth-stage forces on the entire continent surrounding him, his fate would be failure! A death with no place to bury!

Even if he had imagined various extreme scenarios, knowing the immense pressure he would face upon charging into the alien species civilization.

But Lin An also didn't expect that, within just a few hours, with the alien species sovereign not having returned, he almost died in an accident.

He desperately calmed his emotions, continually maintaining hyper-efficient thinking.

Seeing that he had only two blinks and one void walk left, Lin An hesitated for a moment, looking toward the direction where the giant snake for the selection was located.

Now...

Should he continue returning to the giant snake's vessel, mix into the selection grounds, or first flee this continent?

In an instant, Lin An felt as if he stood at a crossroads; his upcoming choice was like a life-or-death decision.

If he now fled this continent, it would mean that his intelligence gathering here would have to start anew.

Moreover, with a large amount of time wasted, the alien species' search would become ever tighter.

After the props left on the giant snake's vessel exceeded their effective time, they would inevitably draw the attention of the alien species.

If the fourth-stage beings in this region were a bit smarter, they might also realize that Lin An had once appeared here...

"Well..."

"If I project my route according to my maximum speed, I can still quickly find the continental range where I am most likely to escape..."

"Having wasted the precious early time, the opportunities left for me to kill alien species will only become fewer..."

A rare struggle, hesitation.

Acting on instinct, moving quickly toward the giant snake's vessel, Lin An had to desperately work out the optimal solution.

"If he still goes to the selection grounds, as long as it is indeed as those alien species said, the interior contains a large number of third-stage..."

"After slaughtering them all, I can at least gather enough points needed for the first round!"

"That way, even if I escape again, I can snowball, hoping it will be much larger!"

"Shall we take a gamble?"

"Gamble under the eyelids of this king-level alien species? Just hide in the selection grounds!!"

After quickly weighing the pros and cons, and after repeated deliberation, Lin An still chose to continue with the original plan!

If he escapes now, perhaps he could live a bit longer, but the hope of success is nearly zero!

Take a gamble; at least there remains a sliver of life!

Whether life or death, he would rather hold hope in his own hands!

Meanwhile, above the fortress.

"Boom!!"

Under the violent, massive aura's descent, the entire fortress instantly seemed to bear millions of tons of pressure, and in an instant was completely crushed by pressure.

Merely under a simple covering of rules, an area exceeding a hundred kilometers, at this moment under the rule's shroud, rapidly melts away everything.

Looking at the fortress interior fully exposed before his eyes, the fourth-stage high-level alien species standing in midair, at this moment a flicker of slight doubt flashed in his black pupils.

He saw, he saw large numbers of alien species killed by headshots, he saw the entire city slaughtered.

Merely looking at these broken corpses of his kin, his eyes held no pity whatsoever, only an indifference like that of a deity.

"Instant death?"

"Life drain?"

"Hiss—"

"Is it the alien species' aura? A very strange method."

"Pure physical killing... to produce this effect, at least third-stage peak..."

With a glance from the corner of his eye, he lightly raised his right hand.

Under the control of an invisible force, a batch of third-stage alien species corpses that had originally died at Lin An's hands were suddenly pulled as if by a laser.

The death state is gruesome... looks like, actually somewhat like a revenge killing.

But could a revenge killing possibly kill everyone here?

Speaking in a low voice, looking at the Purple Fang corpse whose skull had been stomped into the chest cavity, the Alien Species that had descended into the fortress interior grew even more puzzled.

Indeed, as Lin An had guessed, he did not find any trace of Lin An.

Actually, he was also flying at super speed across the entire continent, searching for any abnormality.

Although he said it was to find Lin An, he actually didn't really think that Lin An from the human world would coincidentally appear exactly on his territory.

Just out of caution, he chose to personally conduct a search.

But looking at it now...

A hint of coldness appeared in his eyes.

Only saw his whole body slightly tremble, a probing force like black ripples quickly spread over the entire area beneath the fortress.

Inch by inch, meticulously.

Under his extremely strong power, within just a few seconds he had completely probed the fortress area.

Although he found no energy fluctuations left by human Awakened Ones, nor sensed any hidden life aura.

But given how strange the fortress was, it still reminded him of Lin An.

Is it possible..

That Perfect One... appeared on my territory?

If it were Lin An, it wouldn't be impossible to kill everyone here.

But... where did he hide, how did he escape?

In its icy vertical pupils, that King-rank Alien Species casually scanned the silent fortress.

From the freshness of the corpses and the degree of spiritual energy dissipation, it could be seen that the Alien Species' time of death here was almost right before he noticed the abnormality.

The time difference before and after will not exceed twenty seconds...

In such a short time, he asked himself that even if Lin An started fleeing the moment he discovered him, it would be impossible to leave no trace at all.

Unless, Lin An mastered some kind of ability allowing multiple instantaneous moves, while also possessing multiple spatial abilities.

Only then could there be a chance to escape without leaving a trace in such a short time.

Just as Lin An lacks information about the Alien Species civilization, this Super Fourth Stage Alien Species in the Alien Species world also has little description of Lin An's abilities in the data it possesses.

Walking through the air, after searching again, in an instant this Fourth Stage high-level Alien Species abruptly stopped at the edge of a collapsed city wall.

The corpses here... are somewhat different?

In his sight, on the ground lay Alien Species corpses killed in unison, among them was a Scale Fang.

A blood-stained fragment, still clenched in the palm even before death.