Chapter 497: Chasing and Killing

Jie Ming pushed the light-transforming escape technique to an unprecedented duration this time.

The rainbow light pierced through the sky, crossing the wasteland, rocky mountains, dried-up ancient riverbeds, and strange landforms that rose like the skeletons of giant beasts.

Until the spiritual power was almost exhausted and the soul transmitted bursts of fainting stinging pain, he finally let the light converge, and his figure re-condensed on a strange plain.

"Phew... ha..."

He knelt on one knee, his hands supporting the grey-white surface, his chest rising and falling violently, every breath seeming to carry a burning sensation.

This time, the light transformation flew more than 20 million kilometers.

Sustained ultra-long-distance light-transforming escape, even with his current physique and the adaptive evolution of the body-refining method, was close to the limit of endurance.

But when he raised his head, a smile that was hard to suppress broke out on Jie Ming's face.

"Two Tier 6s... even if they don't die, they are scrapped in this war."

That mass of Red Dust Qi was his entire inventory accumulated for hundreds of years.

Its weight was heavy, and the red dust miscellaneous thoughts it contained were thick enough to make a Tier 7 wizard with an unstable mind fall into a "Red Dust Tribulation" for a short time, and the consciousness would sink into the delusions of all living beings and be unable to extricate itself.

Using it to trick two Tier 6 wizards without special protection, the effect was absolutely good.

He quickly took out a few high-stage recovery magic potions and drank them up.

While the medicinal power melted, the "Body Refining Method" and "Qi Refining Method" operated at the same time, quickly converting the medicinal power, the thin elemental energy of the outside world, and even the essence stored in the flesh into nutrients to nourish the spiritual sea and the body.

The fatigue receded like a tide.

"Must plan the return route." Jie Ming thought calmly while adjusting his breath, "Although two were solved, the remaining guy might still chase... must plan for the worst case."

If that Tier 6 wizard of the Tower of Extinction really had a way to track again, then continuing to circle in the strange enemy territory was by no means a wise move.

The best choice was to return to the Plane Nuolun defensive line—although the distance was far now, relying on the speed of the light-transforming escape technique and his own recovery ability, he could completely adopt the relay mode of "light-transforming escape—short recovery—continue light-transforming."

As long as the escape distance was far enough each time and the recovery interval was short enough, even if the opponent could track, it would be difficult to intercept on the way.

After all, the speed of the light-transforming escape technique was the speed of light in reality.

Just as he recovered seven or eight out of ten and was about to take out the magic network terminal to confirm the relative coordinates between himself and the camp...

An intense space fluctuation that could not be ignored, like a giant boulder thrown into a calm lake, suddenly came from the distance!

The distance... was only a few thousand kilometers!

Jie Ming raised his head suddenly, his pupils shrinking.

Such intense and unmasked space fluctuations were clearly not a natural phenomenon, but a sign of the activation of high-level space wizardry!

What made his heart sink even more was that the moment after the fluctuations subsided, a familiar and cold energy aura pierced into his perception like a needle tip...

It was that Tower of Extinction wizard!

He caught up!

It was by using space teleportation to cross a distance of more than 20 million kilometers and directly close to such a dangerous range!

"How could it be so fast?!" Jie Ming's thoughts raced, instantly deducing several possibilities, and the one that best fit the logic made his face look unusually ugly.

"He discovered... the flaw of the light-transforming escape technique."

The light-transforming flight of the Wu Yun Hua Hong Mirror, although its speed was the best among the same level, had an inherent weakness: it could only fly in a straight line.

This was limited by the physical characteristics of "light" itself, and even if converted by immortal cultivation means, it could not violate this basic law.

It's just that this weakness was irrelevant in most cases.

After all, the distance advantage brought by the speed of light was enough to cover everything.

Unfortunately, the opponent was an experienced and sharp-minded Tier 6 wizard who thought of a countermeasure just by witnessing the complete escape process once.

The opponent deduced his flight trajectory direction and then jumped to a certain point on the extension of the trajectory through ultra-long-distance space teleportation to intercept!

Even if he didn't find it once, it was always possible to find it by jumping a few times at short distances.

"... This is troublesome!"

At the same moment Jie Ming figured out the joints, the cold aura in the distance paused slightly, and then suddenly turned.

Clearly, the opponent also discovered him!

Without half a hesitation, Jie Ming gripped his right hand in the air, and the wizardry model in his spiritual sea trembled under the support of huge spiritual power!

"Space... Stabilization!"

Hum!!!

With him as the origin, the spherical area with a diameter of over a hundred kilometers ahead was instantly "locked" by the space structure!

Layers upon layers of invisible force fields intertwined into a net, as if casting this piece of space into transparent crystal.

Any attempt to perform space jumps, phase movements, or even high-intensity space disturbances in this area would be greatly hindered and backlashed.

Almost at the same moment the space stabilization formed, in the sky a hundred kilometers away, a grey-white figure squeezed out of the void as if tearing a canvas.

It was that Tier 6 wizard of the Tower of Extinction!

He held a struggling pitch-black Shadow Dog in his left hand, and although he was a bit surprised by Jie Ming's reaction speed, his right hand maintained a forward-grabbing posture when he came out.

The grey-white mist in his palm rolled violently, clearly preparing to launch an attack the moment the teleportation was completed.

However, Jie Ming's reaction was faster.

The moment the figure was not fully stable, rainbow light had already burst out from Jie Ming again!

"Don't even think about it!"

The Tower of Extinction wizard shouted coldly, and his grabbing right hand clenched suddenly!

In the sound of glass shattering that appeared out of thin air, the large piece of space ahead collapsed inward, as if an invisible giant hand was going to crush that area along with the rainbow light inside!

But it was half a step too late.

The collapsed space only captured the residual tail of the rainbow light.

That brilliant stream of light, like a bird breaking free from a cage, continued to streak away along the original direction with unstoppable momentum, instantly disappearing at the end of the sky.

The grey-white figure flashed, appearing at the position where Jie Ming was just now in an instant.

He floated in mid-air, looking down at his slightly trembling right palm.

There were a few wisps of rainbow light debris that had not completely dissipated, as if mocking his missed shot.

"Straight line... sure enough." In the shadows under the wizard's hood, two points of scarlet light flickered slightly, and a low self-talk came out, "The speed is the speed of light, but the direction is fixed... next time, you won't escape."

He released his left hand, the Shadow Dog landed, its nose twitched, and it quickly locked onto the direction where the rainbow light left, making a low whimper.

The wizard didn't delay, picked up the Shadow Dog, constructed ultra-long-distance teleportation wizardry with spiritual power, spent dozens of seconds, and his figure became blurred again.

At a high altitude about 1,500 kilometers away from this place, space ripples swung, and the grey-white figure appeared again.

The Shadow Dog was thrown out by him, sniffed briefly in the air, but this time it pointed to another direction.

"Oh? Deliberately shortened the escape distance and turned halfway? Useless struggle!"

The wizard was expressionless, picked up the Shadow Dog, and continued to activate space teleportation.

But this time he deliberately shortened the distance of the activated space teleportation, and the activation time was also reduced a lot.

Once, twice, three times...

He was like an experienced hunter, approaching the prey efficiently by means of short-distance continuous teleportation.

This tracking method had extremely high requirements for spiritual power and space element control, and the consumption was also huge.

But he didn't care at all.

The threat shown by that Tier 5 wizard had already exceeded the conventional category.

At any cost, he must completely eliminate him before he merged with the main force of Plane Nuolun.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 498 =====