Chapter 512: Nine Lives Desert

Facing two powerful demon cultivators, Zhang Nuo dared not harbor any thoughts of a prolonged battle. His shoulders twitched, and a pair of black Butterfly Wings emerged. With a rapid flap, he transformed into a streak of brilliant light and fled toward the distant sky!

"Fellow Daoist Zhan Luo, leave that brat to you; I am going to go enjoy myself properly!"

Looking at the unconscious Han Feiyi beneath his ribs, Tu Zhen said with a lewd smile! Zhan Luo did not even pay him any mind; his figure flickered, and he directly transformed into an escape light, chasing after Zhang Nuo! In his view, no matter how fast a Spirit Severing Stage cultivator was, they could absolutely not compare to him!

As Zhang Nuo fled in front, his Divine Sense scanned behind him incessantly, and he suddenly discovered an incredibly fast escape light rushing toward him! His heart sank to the bottom in an instant!

The escape light of an Integration Stage cultivator was truly astonishingly fast. Even with the augmentation of the Butterfly Wings, Zhang Nuo's own escape speed was still being caught up to bit by bit!

He could almost hear the roar of the demon cultivator behind him! In his desperation, Zhang Nuo opened his mouth slightly, and a dark red firebird flew out with a light cry! With a swirl, the Red Glow Fire Spirit transformed into a pair of fire wings about two zhang long, which directly inserted themselves under Zhang Nuo's ribs.

With all four wings moving, his speed increased significantly all at once! Zhan Luo, who was behind, saw Zhang Nuo's escape speed increase and released his Divine Sense to scan Zhang Nuo's body, only then discovering that he had actually grown another pair of fire wings!

"I really couldn't tell, you brat have quite a few tricks up your sleeve!"

However, even though Zhang Nuo had activated the 'Wing Transformation Art', his speed was at most on par with Zhan Luo's. The two were separated by over thirty miles, flashing across the sky and leaving trails behind them!

Because he was in a rush to save his life, Zhang Nuo did not choose a direction at all, simply charging forward in one direction. Before long, he discovered that he had taken the wrong path!

Because, before him, lay an endless desert! It was precisely that 'Nine Lives Desert!' Zhang Nuo wished he could slap himself twice!

Isn't this courting death? How did he end up fleeing in this direction by some strange twist of fate! Looking back at the demon cultivator chasing from behind, he saw that the other party had no intention of stopping at all!

He steeled his heart! Since he had entered unintentionally, there was no other choice! Rather than being killed by the demon cultivator behind, it was better to break into the 'Nine Lives Desert' and gamble on his luck! Thinking of this, Zhang Nuo rushed into the desert with a 'swish'!

Watching the direction of Zhang Nuo's escape light, Zhan Luo could not help but sneer. A human cultivator at the Spirit Severing Stage breaking into the 'Nine Lives Desert'—wasn't this courting death?

However, even so, he did not let Zhang Nuo go and continued to pursue him relentlessly from behind! Zhang Nuo had stirred up his most primitive, combative beastly instincts! If word got out that he had let a Spirit Severing Stage cultivator run away, where would he put his old face!

As soon as Zhang Nuo entered the 'Nine Lives Desert', he felt waves of heat rising from the ground. These scorching high temperatures could turn water into steam in an instant! Although he was protected by his escape light, a layer of sweat still broke out on Zhang Nuo's body!

Previously, when listening to Ling Hua and the others recount matters regarding the 'Nine Lives Desert', it had felt terrifying enough, but now, experiencing it personally, Zhang Nuo realized that what they had said was merely a drop in the bucket!

High above his head, the scorching sunlight seemed to shine down from different angles, enveloping the entire desert without any blind spots! The golden sand shimmered with a light that made one's heart grow cold under the sun.

This feeling was very strange! His skin was burning hot, yet his heart felt ice-cold and bone-chilling!

Zhang Nuo opened his Divine Sense wide, not daring to relax for a single moment; he was deeply afraid that some demon beast would emerge from the desert and block his path! Zhan Luo, behind him, was becoming angrier the more he chased! In the blink of an eye, nearly an hour had passed, and he still hadn't managed to kill that human Spirit Severing Stage cultivator! He let out continuous long howls, urging on the escape light on his body!

In the current situation, Zhang Nuo ignored Zhan Luo behind him entirely and just flew forward with his head down! Suddenly, right in front of him, a dark cloud flew over the golden desert! Just as he was wondering where the dark cloud had come from, his Divine Sense had already reached it!

In an instant, Zhang Nuo's face turned ashen. What he feared most had come; the dark things in front were no dark clouds at all, but clearly a group of flying demon beasts! Each of their bodies looked like a large black pancake, with eyes and mouths concentrated at the front, and a pair of small wings, completely disproportionate to their bodies, flapping rapidly on them!

Zhang Nuo had never seen these flying demon beasts and did not know their names, but from these palm-sized beasts, there emanated a not-insignificant fluctuation of Demonic Qi! It appeared they were demon beasts born with a demonic nature!

He had wanted to change direction to avoid encountering these beasts emitting Demonic Qi, but looking back at the relentlessly chasing Zhan Luo, he changed his mind! As soon as he changed his flight direction, he would invisibly shorten the distance between the two, and if that happened, things would be dire!

As Zhang Nuo thought this, in the blink of an eye, he encountered the few demon beasts flying at the very front! He flicked his ten fingers in succession, and streaks of Sword Qi shot out, killing the few pancake-like demon beasts!

The individual strength of these demon beasts was only around the Four-tier, so they could not cause much damage to Zhang Nuo, but their numbers were astonishing. If he were to be submerged within them, his flight speed would certainly drop drastically!

Zhan Luo, looking at the black mass of demon beasts in front, felt a shock in his heart! These demon beasts were called 'Mofen'; they were a type of flying demon beast that lived in groups within the 'Nine Lives Desert'. Their cultivation was not frightening, but what was most frightening was the power of their group!

Once one entered the interior of the 'Mofen', the Demonic Qi on the beasts would instantly produce a strange flame, the temperature of which was far higher than a cultivator's Infant Fire! Even Zhan Luo himself did not dare to be easily trapped by them!

Shifting his gaze, he saw Zhang Nuo rush into the interior of the 'Mofen' like a headless fly! Zhan Luo stopped abruptly. He looked coldly at the place where Zhang Nuo had disappeared, where a ripple of Demonic Qi was spreading out!

"Not wanting to die at my hands, but dying under the siege of this group of 'Mofen'! Consider yourself lucky, brat!"

Watching the Demonic Qi ripple in the surrounding space, an extremely high temperature caused the surrounding air to crackle with 'pop-pop' sounds! Zhan Luo wanted to turn and leave! Because the distance between him and Zhang Nuo was not too great, it would be over if this group of 'Mofen' killed Zhang Nuo and then set their sights on him!

However, just as he was turning around, a purple electric arc suddenly jumped within the 'Mofen' group, and immediately after, countless purple electric arcs flooded out like a flood! They instantly dissolved the Demonic Qi emitted by the surrounding 'Mofen'!

Within the 'Mofen' group, several sharp cries erupted, as if they had seen something extremely terrifying, and they scattered in all directions! At the same time, a figure completely shrouded in purple electric arcs stood floating in the very center of the numerous 'Mofen'. A murderous aura surged on his face!

However, upon seeing Zhan Luo in the distance, Zhang Nuo retracted his killing intent and turned to flee forward again! The moment he was surrounded by the numerous 'Mofen', Zhang Nuo had felt the surrounding temperature rising in a straight line. If things continued to develop according to this trend, even if he didn't die at Zhan Luo's hands, he would die under the siege of this group of demon beasts!

Sensing the Demonic Qi, Zhang Nuo naturally thought of the 'Purple Lightning Wild Thunder' within his body, this thing that specifically countered demonic objects! After sacrificing the purple lightning, sure enough, as soon as it encountered the Demonic Qi, the electric arc would emit a thunderous boom, and the Demonic Qi would vanish into thin air!

When Zhang Nuo mobilized all of the 'Purple Lightning Wild Thunder', the Demonic Qi around his body disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and only after a path appeared did he escape!

In the distance, Zhan Luo saw all of this clearly! He took a slight breath of the scorching air! His heart was filled with astonishment! Those purple electric arcs wrapping around Zhang Nuo were clearly the legendary 'Purple Lightning Wild Thunder'. He had not expected a human Spirit Severing Stage cultivator to possess such a treasure!

"Purple Lightning Wild Thunder! A bit interesting!"

Zhan Luo felt more and more that Zhang Nuo's divine abilities were not weak; if he himself were at the Spirit Severing Stage, he feared he wouldn't even be able to last ten moves in front of Zhang Nuo!

Just as his thoughts wandered, Zhang Nuo had already rushed out of the 'Mofen' encirclement and fled toward the distant sky! Zhan Luo did not have 'Purple Lightning Wild Thunder' and dared not easily pass through the 'Mofen' group, so he surged his escape light and detoured from the side.

This group of 'Mofen' was very large, so by the time he had dodged these flying demon beasts from the side, Zhang Nuo had long since disappeared without a trace!

Even with his Divine Sense wide open, there was not a single trace! Cursing bitterly, Zhan Luo had lost a lot of face this time! A little Spirit Severing Stage brat had escaped from his hands! Who knew how Tu Zhen would mock him after he returned?

Zhang Nuo flew for several days in one breath, yet he still had not rushed out of this desert! Instead, he had a feeling of being lost! Now, everywhere his eyes could see was golden sand!

It was unbearably hot during the day, but once night fell, this desert was chillingly cold! The gap between the two, like heaven and earth, was putting his body to a huge test! But fortunately, at least he had shaken off that guy Zhan Luo!

His body remained floating in mid-air; Zhang Nuo did not dare to land easily! The 'Nine Lives Desert' looked exceptionally calm on the surface, but beneath it, countless demon beasts were hidden. One careless move, and he would be attacked by a swarm of demon beasts!

But flying in the sky forever was not a solution either; Zhang Nuo had to stop and rest for a while! This day, Zhang Nuo finally discovered a small hill a few zhang high in front of him! Calling it a small hill, it was actually about the same as a pile of rubble!

Being able to find such a place in this desert was already not easy! He probed the surroundings with his Divine Sense and, seeing there was no danger, Zhang Nuo landed on the small hill!