Chapter 494: Scouting and Accidents

A few days later, Jie Ming was hiding in the interlayer of Phase Space, like a shadow sinking to the bottom of the water, silent and soundless.

In the blurred scene coming through the space membrane, a team of wizards was flying past above.

That was a full fifteen Tier 5 wizards from the Chaos Secret Sect and Tower of Extinction allied forces, in a rigorous search formation, led by a Tier 6 wizard with a significantly heavier aura.

They did not use large-scale detection wizardry, but scanned every inch of space with a precise energy resonance field, not even letting go of subtle abnormalities in elemental flow.

"Tsk! Isn't it just killing three people?" Jie Ming muttered silently in Phase Space, "Why are these guys like they've poked a hornet's nest?"

But he actually knew very well in his heart that he had indeed poked a hornet's nest.

Since that encounter battle, his position had already been equivalent to poking into the alert range of the allied camp.

The destruction of that three-person patrol squad clearly triggered some kind of alert mechanism.

Since then, the search density in this area had climbed to a suffocating level.

What was more troublesome was that the quality of these searchers was frighteningly high.

Not only were they elite, truly well-trained, tacitly cooperative, and solid in individual combat power, but every few squads would have a Tier 6 wizard leading in the middle, and once anything happened, they could support in time.

Several times, Jie Ming was almost captured by a passing perception-type wizard just because he produced extremely weak space ripples during Phase Space conversion.

Forcing him to change his hiding strategy.

Jie Ming's current situation was to sneak into the deep layer of the space interlayer with Phase Space, and then rely on the computing power provided by the spirituality of the Wu Yun Hua Hong magic treasure to use one mind for two purposes, weaving a "Space Stabilization" camouflage film on the outer layer of Phase Space.

However, this space stabilization was not really reinforcing space, but simulating the unique fluctuation frequency of stable space, completely covering the subtle abnormalities of Phase Space itself.

From the actual experience, this method he thought of when competing with his fellow disciples was effective, but the cost was that the movement speed was as slow as a turtle crawling.

After all, in the state of Phase Space, every phase conversion needed to recalibrate the stabilization film, and every movement had to ensure that it did not cause a chain reaction in the external space field.

But conversely, this high-density search itself became the best road sign.

"The direction where the search teams are denser... is closer to the core area."

Jie Ming was like a spider cautiously crawling on the edge of a spider web, calculating the distribution density and frequency of the external search teams through vision, and piecing together the general orientation of the allied camp bit by bit.

Another few days passed.

Jie Ming maintained the phase concealment state, moving forward a considerable distance like walking on thin ice.

At this moment, he could vaguely feel that the "texture" of the space ahead had changed.

It was not a visual change, but an abnormality at the law level.

The originally thin but uniform space structure became as dense and hard as solidified crystal beyond an invisible boundary ahead.

This was the effect of large-scale, high-level space imprisonment wizardry.

Moreover, the coverage of these wizardries was so wide and the structure so rigorous that Jie Ming judged just by perception: there was absolutely no possibility of sneaking in silently.

Any attempt at phase movement or space jump to pass through that area would be as ridiculous as trying to pierce a steel plate with a feather, and would instantly trigger an alarm.

But Jie Ming was not discouraged, but instead, in the darkness of Phase Space, he grinned slightly.

"This is it."

Being able to set up such a scale of space imprisonment on the periphery without any flaws was enough to prove that ahead was the core defensive circle of the allied camp.

He didn't need to really break in; determining the precise location of the camp was one of the most important goals of this trip.

With this coordinate, the range to be searched next was narrowed down to a "relatively limited area with a radius of about 10 million kilometers with the camp as the center."

"Time to retreat."

Jie Ming turned around decisively and began to retreat along the way he came.

Things seemed to be going smoothly, and after that, he only needed to exit the enemy's alert area to re-divide the search position based on the coordinates of the enemy camp.

However, just as he spent another few days and had just retreated over a thousand kilometers, the situation outside changed suddenly.

The search teams that were patrolling regularly suddenly became restless collectively, as if an ant colony had been thrown a stone!

Squads of wizards no longer maintained the search formation, but turned uniformly and flew at full speed toward a specific direction.

"Did someone else sneak in?" Jie Ming reacted immediately, "And... was discovered."

Immediately after, intense elemental fluctuations came from that direction in the distance—the roar of fire bursting, the shrill scream of frost condensing, the explosion of thunder tearing space, and a muffled sound as heavy as a mountain collision.

Clearly, the battle had erupted, and the scale was not small.

What was more troublesome was that as the battle escalated, various intense space wizardry fluctuations began to spread.

Even though they were far apart, that disturbance still spread to the area where Jie Ming was like ripples.

In normal times, this aftermath would be nothing.

But at this moment, the "Space Stabilization" camouflage film that Jie Ming had set up to cover Phase Space appeared particularly abrupt in this chaotic space background, like the only piece of floating ice on a calm lake that did not ripple with the waves.

What was even more fatal was that because a large number of wizards were gathering toward the combat area, this "abnormally stable" space block where Jie Ming was located was immediately detected by a passing Tier 5 wizard squad.

"Over there! The space reading is wrong!" The lead wizard shouted sharply.

Almost without any hesitation, five wizards raised their hands at the same time, and five grey-white imprisonment beams intertwined into a net, covering the position where Jie Ming was hiding!

"Damn! Discovered!"

Jie Ming's heart tightened, but his movements did not have the slightest delay.

Just before the space imprisonment net fell, he actively tore the Phase Space, and his figure suddenly appeared from the void!

The moment he broke through the Phase Space, he slashed out with a space slash produced by tearing the Phase Space.

A pitch-black thin line that seemed to be able to swallow even light appeared out of thin air, precisely sweeping across the neck of the wizard who had just issued the warning.

Pfft.

The head flew up, and the expression of astonishment froze on the face.

This wizard didn't even have time for his soul to escape before he was shredded by the turbulence brought up by the space slash.

Before the corpse fell, Jie Ming's figure had already streaked in the opposite direction like a ghost!

"Enemy attack!!"

"Stop him!"

The remaining wizards were shocked and angry, and various interception wizardries smashed down like a rainstorm.

Curse wizardry, elemental bombardment, gravity mud, spiritual spikes... but Jie Ming ignored these offensive wizardries at all.

The Gui Xu Armor shimmered on the body surface, and all attacks landed on it, like rain hitting glass, splashing ripples and then disappearing without a trace.

And the Grand Void Step under his feet had been pushed to the limit, his figure dragging out one after another afterimages, his speed breaking the sound barrier in an instant, but strangely without making any explosion—all sounds and energy fluctuations were absorbed and deflected by the concealment field that came with the Grand Void Step.

As for fighting or something, Jie Ming didn't have this intention from the beginning.

Are you kidding!

This area was now full of enemy wizards; a slight delay for a moment, and the next second might be dozens or hundreds of wizards surrounding him.

By then, let alone a Tier 5, even a peak Tier 6, falling into the siege of a large army was nine deaths and one life.

So...

Run!

Run regardless of everything!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 495 =====