Chapter 557: Slashing the Left Protector (6k words, seeking monthly tickets)

【Great Lord, we have been flying at full speed, the city closest to us is the Green Snake clan's Green Snake City, about eight thousand miles away.】

The Eight Desolations Gold Order flashed, and Xu Jin received the report from the Eighth-Tier Jin Zhu clan's Seeing Ju Qi.

At the same instant, Xu Jin finished absorbing all the medicinal power of the second Sixth-Tier spirit medicine for the primordial spirit.

The moment he activated his primordial spirit, the primordial spirit fetal light shot out like sunlight.

The final distance was 65 meters.

Two Sixth-Tier spirit medicines for the primordial spirit nourished to the extreme directly caused the direct radiation distance of Xu Jin's primordial spirit fetal light to surge by thirteen meters, and Xu Jin's primordial spirit cultivation was equivalent to surging by nearly thirty percent on the original basis.

Worth it!

The most critical point was that the number of times Xu Jin could perform the spatial directional shift star art increased by at least eight times.

This was the foundation of saving his life.

From the current look, the King of the Eight Desolations, Envoy Ju Zhang, had locked onto his location and was heading straight for Green Snake City.

The distance of eight thousand miles, based on the speed obtained from the continuous reports of Seeing Ju Qi and others, would take a little over a quarter of an hour to arrive.

When approaching the encirclement, the speed of the journey would only be faster.

Therefore, it was time for Xu Jin to take action.

As for the battle plan, Xu Jin had already thought it out while refining the medicinal power of the spirit medicine.

Going head-on with the encirclement team composed of fifty-four Eighth-Tier and two Ninth-Tier was no longer stubborn, but stupid.

Even if he fought with them, he would be dancing on the tip of a knife.

If he wasn't careful, he would be pierced by the tip of the knife.

However, fleeing in a panic all the way was too stifling, and that was not Xu Jin's style.

If Envoy Ju Zhang continued like this, chasing and killing Xu Jin once every seven days, that would be terrible.

While fleeing for his life, he must teach them a lesson and hurt them.

Especially the Blood God Sect Master.

He really thought that his, Xu Jin's, affairs were easy to meddle in!

The next instant, Xu Jin stood up suddenly, fire light exploded, directly destroying everything of his latent cultivation place, including possible residual hair.

As the Heaven-Man Sensing star art operated, palpitations surged like a tide, great ominous!

The moment Xu Jin rose into the sky with the lightning wings flapping, he rushed toward Green Snake City, which was only fifty miles away from him, with a roaring sound.

He had already taken a fancy to that set of scales on the Green Snake King here.

It could at least be exchanged for twenty points of the Thousand Star Order.

"Who?"

The massive star power fluctuation directly alarmed the entire Green Snake City, and the Seventh-Tier Eighth Layer Green Snake King rose into the sky, shouting sharply. 【

The aura of the newcomer was only at the sixth-tier, ninth layer, so he was not afraid in the slightest, but the moment he saw clearly that the newcomer was a human, his expression turned stern.

Their Great King had ordered them to keep an eye out for the movements of any strange humans.

Boom!

A five-colored arc of lightning flashed by, and the Green Snake Tribe's chieftain, who had just soared into the sky, fell from the heavens wreathed in flames, the smell of charred flesh spreading everywhere.

The next instant, Xu Jin appeared beneath the corpse of the Green Snake Tribe's chieftain. As the Yellow Dragon Sword's light flashed repeatedly, the chieftain's tough green scales fell off one after another, and his seventh-tier star core flew out along with them.

From all directions, over a dozen seventh-tier aliens were charging toward Xu Jin.

Xu Jin did not even look back; with a wave of his hand, fifteen Five Elements Thunder Slashes shot out like lightning in every direction.

Boom!

A continuous barrage of two Five Elements Chain Thunder Slashes blasted out, and those seventh-tier aliens fell like dumplings, especially the seventh-tier early-stage aliens, who were killed instantly.

The seventh-tier mid-stage and late-stage Green Snake tribesmen were all heavily injured.

Green light erupted from the void—Green Shadow Thousand Scorches.

The moment the seven seventh-tier mid-to-late-stage Green Snake tribesmen were trapped, the sound of thunder rang out.

At the same time, Xu Jin had already drawn out the Green Snake Tribe chieftain's Sumeru space. Without taking a second look, a flash of divine sense sent it into his own vast Sumeru space.

At any rate, the harvest was decent.

There were fifth-tier soul-type spirit herbs, over a dozen seventh-tier star jade tablets, and a few sixth-tier purification pearls that weren't worth mentioning.

Hiss!

Amidst heavy gasps, another seventh-tier, seventh-layer Green Snake tribesman suddenly struggled to stand up and let out a piercing hiss.

"You can certainly take a beating."

With a wave of his hand, lightning flashed, killing him instantly!

The seventh-tier, seventh-layer Green Snake scale armor was also a good harvest.

Just as Xu Jin stepped forward to strip the armor, the entire Green Snake City suddenly boiled over; tens of thousands of fourth, fifth, and sixth-tier Green Snake tribesmen gathered, roaring as they surrounded Xu Jin's position.

Xu Jin sneered and stripped the scale armor from the two seventh-tier late-stage and one seventh-tier mid-stage Green Snake tribesmen as quickly as possible. As for their Sumeru spaces, he only drew out one and lost interest.

Ordinary seventh-tier aliens, especially those who had merged into the Eight Desolations Continent, were too poor.

Let alone soul-type spirit herbs or seventh-tier star jade tablets, they didn't even have many sixth-tier star jade tablets.

The next instant, the moment the surrounding Green Snake aliens began to focus their fire, Xu Jin flapped the lightning wings on his back, instantly soaring into the sky, and with a flash of his wings, he vanished into the distance.

It wasn't that he was afraid of the Green Snake Tribe's concentrated fire; if Xu Jin wanted to, annihilating this tribe would be no problem at all.

It was just that at a critical moment, there was no need to waste precious strength here.

Just a moment ago, the Eight Desolations Golden Token received a message from Ju Man: the team had suddenly accelerated and was five thousand miles away from Green Snake City.

This distance was just about right.

Xu Jin, who had soared into the sky, instantly flapped his lightning wings and detoured at full speed in another direction.

After his Lei Guang Source Star Pattern broke through to the ninth-tier lower grade, Xu Jin's speed could reach approximately seven miles per second, equivalent to the speed of an ordinary eighth-tier mid-stage cultivator or an eighth-tier early-stage cultivator skilled in speed.

If he used the Lei Guang Law Star to augment himself, his speed could be another ten to twenty percent faster.

However, right now, Xu Jin wasn't trying to shake them off, but to keep them on a leash.

He wanted to exploit a time or information gap.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Envoy Ju Zhang and his party arrived at Green Snake City.

Looking at the carnage and corpses in the center of Green Snake City, Envoy Ju Zhang's face turned gloomy.

By now, he knew that the Seven Kill successor he was hunting also possessed mysterious methods he was unaware of and had become aware of his tracking.

It was fortunate that he had listened to his father's suggestion.

He had invited the Blood God Sect Master to join him; otherwise, today's third encirclement and suppression would have been quite precarious.

"Your Highness Envoy Ju Zhang, looking at the degree of coagulation of this blood, the time of death is definitely within a quarter of an hour. If we can track the target's position, we can still catch up," said the Blood God Sect Master, who was shrouded in blood light.

Envoy Ju Zhang glanced at the Blood God Sect Master and said, "Wait a moment."

Subsequently, Envoy Ju Zhang quickly activated the sensing secret technique his father had passed to him. That resonance aura appeared instantly, and simultaneously drawing upon the authority of heaven and earth, he determined Xu Jin's current position and direction of travel in an instant.

The next instant, starlight emerged, and the latest map of the Eight Desolations Continent appeared before everyone.

"The target is here, five thousand miles away from us, and is moving in this direction."

"We will pursue first. Have Hu Weng burst forth with speed; we can close the distance in at most two quarter-hours. Once we close in quickly, Sect Master Yu and I will launch a surprise encirclement and kill him," Envoy Ju Zhang arranged the tactics. This was the second time he had activated the sensing secret technique today.

In a flash, the giant Hu Weng bird soared into the sky. Envoy Ju Zhang fed it a bag of seventh-tier star cores directly. The moment its wings erupted with starlight, the giant Hu Weng bird's speed suddenly increased by several tens of percent, making it even faster than an eighth-tier expert.

Xu Jin flew all the way, beginning to detour obliquely and slowly approaching the direction of Blood Moon City.

At the same time, Xu Jin received reports from Seeing Ju Qi and the others.

Envoy Ju Zhang had changed his tracking direction, turning north, and the giant Hu Weng bird they were riding had also accelerated.

After Xu Jin received this message, he analyzed it briefly and obtained a very useful piece of intelligence.

Envoy Ju Zhang's lock on his position was not continuous.

Otherwise, he should have pursued him directly at an angle, rather than chasing him in a straight line to Green Snake City and then making a right-angle turn to pursue Xu Jin's position.

This discovery was extremely important for Xu Jin's subsequent tactics.

The next instant, Xu Jin increased his speed, switching directly to triple-speed Flowing Shimmer to travel, so as not to be caught up by the two ninth-tier experts.

At the same time, he kept the sensing of the Mingji Star Pattern active.

After his Primal Spirit cultivation surged, the sensing range of the Mingji Star Pattern also increased from a five-thousand-meter radius to just over six thousand meters.

This range would be Xu Jin's final safety zone.

The Flowing Shimmer Star Art brought by the Meteor Star Pattern had once been Xu Jin's fastest star art.

It was a pity it couldn't be stacked with Lei Guang Escape and Lei Guang Wings; otherwise, Xu Jin's speed would have been more than enough based on that alone.

The speed of triple Flowing Shimmer was about ten miles, and the consumption was also within a range Xu Jin could support.

Because of the situation reported by Seeing Ju Qi and the others, Xu Jin changed direction again.

He turned from heading north to a direction slightly west of northwest.

After making a large circle, Xu Jin detoured toward Blood Moon City at an even wider angle.

But he did not rush toward Blood Moon City in a straight line; Xu Jin did not want his goal to be seen through by Envoy Ju Zhang so quickly.

He still wanted to lure them even further away.

Two quarter-hours later, after constant detouring, although Xu Jin was traveling northwest, he was less than ten thousand miles away from Blood Moon City in the southeast.

This position was just about right.

However, the opportunity for Xu Jin to make his move had not yet arrived.

Aboard the giant Hu Weng bird, Blood God Sect Master Yu Shen had blood light emerging around his body, constantly sensing the fluctuations of aura that might exist in the distance.

According to previous deductions, they should be able to close in by now.

Yet he couldn't sense any aura at all.

"Your Highness Envoy Ju Zhang, should we correct our direction? Otherwise, theoretically, we should have been able to close in," said Blood God Sect Master Yu Shen.

Envoy Ju Zhang nodded with a solemn expression.

He activated the sensing secret technique once more.

The moment he sensed Xu Jin's position, his expression changed.

They had pursued in the wrong direction; this Seven Kill successor had changed direction again. With a stomp of his feet, the giant Hu Weng bird instantly changed direction, pursuing toward the northwest.

"He changed direction?"

Blood God Sect Master Yu Shen frowned. "Your Highness Envoy Ju Zhang, pursuing like this won't work. If the target keeps changing direction and we cannot track him continuously, we will only be exhausted by running around and be teased by the opponent in the palm of his hand."

Envoy Ju Zhang knew this logic all too well.

It was mainly because this Seven Kill successor was too difficult to track.

He had even refined the origin will of the Eight Desolations Continent's Great World, which caused the effect of his heaven and earth authority to be significantly weakened.

However, significantly weakened did not mean useless.

As long as he was willing to expend the energy, it was still possible.

Just as Blood God Sect Master Yu Shen said, if they couldn't track him continuously, they would only be toyed with by the opponent.

The next instant, Envoy Ju Zhang sat cross-legged at the head of the giant Hu Weng bird, with six eighth-tier late-stage experts circling his body to guard him.

At the same time, Envoy Ju Zhang's Primal Spirit emerged from behind his head; his fifth-tier peak Primal Spirit shone with brilliant divine light, making the Blood God Sect Master feel a chill.

At the same instant, Envoy Ju Zhang directly used his Primal Spirit to activate the authority of heaven and earth, locking onto the aura of Xu Jin's position that he had sensed during his third resonance.

Using Primal Spirit power as consumption and heaven and earth authority as chains, he forcibly locked onto Xu Jin's position.

This method was very effective, but it had only one drawback: the consumption of soul power was extremely high.

Even with Envoy Ju Zhang's fifth-tier peak Primal Spirit cultivation, he could only maintain the lock for at most half an hour.

But just ten breaths later, Envoy Ju Zhang knew his sacrifice was worth it.

This Seven Kill successor had changed direction again.

The direction of his flight had turned from northwest directly to the southwest.

With a thought, the giant Hu Weng bird Envoy Ju Zhang was riding instantly changed direction as well.

A few breaths later, Xu Jin frowned slightly.

It seemed the situation had changed.

After Seeing Ju Qi reported that their direction had turned northwest, he immediately turned southwest, rushing toward the direction of Blood Moon City.

He was still nearly ten thousand miles away from Blood Moon City.

However, not long after he turned, he received reports from Seeing Ju Qi and the others again: they had also turned.

The next instant, Xu Jin turned again, attempting to turn twice in the middle.

But every time he turned, within a few breaths, he would receive reports from Seeing Ju Qi and the others saying that they had also turned.

"It seems Envoy Ju Zhang has a method to track me continuously. In that case, I won't pretend anymore!"

At this very moment, he was nearly ten thousand miles away from Blood Moon City; even if an eighth-tier peak expert flew at full speed, it would take more than a quarter of an hour.

Even at the maximum speed of Envoy Ju Zhang that Xu Jin had seen before, it should take about twelve or thirteen minutes.

This time was enough for Xu Jin.

The next instant, Xu Jin's figure condensed, spatial fluctuations arose, and he instantly vanished from where he stood.

With just a flash, Xu Jin appeared a thousand miles away.

The improvement in his star power cultivation, especially the significant increase in his Primal Spirit cultivation earlier, allowed the distance of Xu Jin's Spatial Shift star art to increase significantly; he could now shift a thousand miles at once.

Continuous directional spatial shifting.

At the same time, Xu Jin had already activated the Spirit Platform star art to restore his Primal Spirit cultivation and had swallowed a fourth-tier soul-type spirit herb.

Better to recover first.

Aboard the giant Hu Weng bird, Eight Desolations Wang Envoy Ju Zhang's expression changed abruptly.

The aura of the Seven Kill successor he had locked onto with heaven and earth authority suddenly vanished in a flash.

He activated his Primal Spirit with all his might, expanding his sensing in all directions from the location where it had vanished, but he found nothing.

Helpless, he could only activate the sensing secret technique for the fourth time.

This sensing left Envoy Ju Zhang shocked.

Previously, the distance between them and the target was four thousand miles and was constantly shrinking.

But now, the distance between them and the target had instantly expanded to eight thousand miles.

Before Envoy Ju Zhang could react, the aura of the Seven Kill successor he had just locked onto with heaven and earth authority vanished again.

He knew the reason: this was the Seven Kill successor using the Spatial Shift star art.

It must have been used continuously, causing his lock of heaven and earth authority to fail.

At this moment, Eight Desolations Wang Envoy Ju Zhang was already hesitating whether to use the fifth sensing secret technique.

If he used the fifth sensing secret technique and still couldn't find an opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Seven Kill successor, or if he lost his trail again, it would mean this fifth surprise attack had failed again!

After thinking about it, Envoy Ju Zhang made a decision.

The Spatial Shift star art had huge consumption and could not be used for long, let alone continuously; this was common knowledge.

He estimated that the Seven Kill successor had discovered the crisis and had begun to use the Spatial Shift star art to flee for his life.

Then let him flee for a while; once his soul power was mostly exhausted, he naturally wouldn't use the Spatial Shift star art again, or at least he wouldn't use it continuously.

By then, he would be able to lock onto the target continuously!

Envoy Ju Zhang had decided to pursue in this direction first and wait for a quarter of an hour before sensing again.

At any rate, at least for now, the target had not changed direction!

Eight hundred miles outside Blood Moon City, Xu Jin had just arrived when he received a message from his teacher, Qi Shanye.

【The Left Protector and another eighth-tier expert are inside the City Lord's Mansion. Additionally, the seventh-tier experts are already patrolling the entire city in teams of four. Theoretically, four seventh-tier experts can absolutely deal with one eighth-tier early-stage expert, or even hold off an eighth-tier mid-stage one. Be careful.】

【Teacher, I am about to arrive. You take your team and return a bit further away and a bit slower!】

【Alright.】

Having just swallowed a fifth-tier soul-type spirit herb and feeling his Primal Spirit cultivation recovering rapidly, Xu Jin activated Spatial Shift again.

Just a moment ago, he had performed Spatial Shift ten times in a row, arriving outside Blood Moon City in just a few breaths.

Now, it was time for his hunt.

Inside the Blood Moon City Lord's Mansion, Left Protector Fan Kai was studying the insights for breaking through to the ninth-tier that the Sect Master had given him.

He was preparing him first.

The Sect Master had already promised that after a period of time, once he had accumulated enough points, he would prioritize exchanging for the Divine Dao True Meaning to allow him to break through to the ninth-tier.

The Sect Master's Thousand Star Token was of a high rank, and the discount when purchasing cultivation materials was quite large.

The next instant, Left Protector Fan Kai's expression suddenly became extremely stern.

Just a moment ago, he had sensed an incomparably vast spatial fluctuation descending directly into Blood Moon City.

"There's a situation!"

With a roar, Left Protector Fan Kai and the duty-bound Industry Hall Elder Xiao Wenfeng, both eighth-tier experts, soared into the sky simultaneously.

The moment they flew over the City Lord's Mansion, they saw a familiar figure with lightning wings emerging behind him, charging toward them at high speed.

He was all too familiar with this figure.

Left Protector Fan Kai's face changed drastically.

"Not good, it's that person!" Xiao Wenfeng also exclaimed!

"Old Xiao, you hold him off for a breath; I will personally go to preside over the Blood Blade Array. Only the Blood Blade Array can deal with this person!" Left Protector Fan Kai shouted.

Xiao Wenfeng was anxious!

Boom!

An arc of lightning turned instantly, slashing toward Xiao Wenfeng.

As the lightning flashed, the protective starlight of Xiao Wenfeng, an eighth-tier mid-stage expert, shattered, and heavy cracks appeared on his newly refined Seven Star Spirit Armor!

Meanwhile, Left Protector Fan Kai's figure had already flashed toward the direction of the Blood Blade Array.

Extremely subtle spatial fluctuations erupted at the same time.

Pop!

Crack!

Blue solid ice emerged directly in the void and exploded, precisely freezing Left Protector Fan Kai, who was rushing toward the Blood Blade Array, into a lump of solid ice, also shattering his protective starlight.

Blood-colored starlight flickered frantically within the solid ice.

If he didn't break out, he would be frozen to death.

Click!

The solid ice freezing him exploded instantly.

Boom!

The Five Elements Thunder Slash had already slashed down toward Left Protector Fan Kai's head.

But as the lightning slash shattered the Seven Star Spirit Armor, Left Protector Fan Kai's figure suddenly exploded into a ball of blood light. The moment the blood light turned to ash, Left Protector Fan Kai also vanished.

"You use the Blood Puppet secret technique quite skillfully."

Xu Jin sneered, and in the shadows where his gaze landed, deep blue ice light erupted abruptly.

Left Protector Fan Kai, who had just escaped to this place, was terrified.

He had already been frostbitten, and his blood was almost coagulated.

While blood light flashed frantically, he once again burst through the deep blue solid ice.

Xu Jin had already flown above him.

At the same instant, Left Protector Fan Kai had already prepared the Blood Puppet secret technique.

But in an instant, a vast Primal Spirit fluctuation slammed into his mind like a knife, causing his head to ache violently while blood sprayed from his seven orifices.

Boom!

The Five Elements Thunder Slash slammed down instantly.

The moment Left Protector Fan Kai's head flew off, it instantly turned to ash.

His fifth-tier late-stage Primal Spirit appeared at the same instant!

Boom!

As the Five Elements Divine Thunder poured down, Fan Kai's Primal Spirit also turned to ash at the same time!

This scene happened too fast.

Although Xu Jin and Left Protector Fan Kai exchanged several rounds, in reality, it only took a single breath of time.

In the ruins of the collapsed City Lord's Mansion, the moment Industry Hall Elder Xiao Wenfeng saw this scene, he turned and fled without hesitation!

A five-colored arc of lightning flashed, heavily injuring Xiao Wenfeng again, blasting him until he vomited blood and crashed toward the ground.

But the moment he fell, his head vanished without warning!

Spatial Star Art: Void.

(End of chapter)