I Don't Have Jizhi Cough Syrup

"Honestly, none of you ever gives me a moment's peace."

You wanted to be born already, before I'd washed all that Sha Qi off you?

Not a chance. I've barred the door and shut the windows too.

With a thought, he had his alt in the blood pool summon Pangu's pressure. Sensing Father God's pressure, Di Jiang's flesh cocoon, which had been itching to stir, immediately settled down.

Because Xiang Dong's body, which was out wandering, was linked to his alt, a very faint trace of Pangu's presence also leaked uncontrollably from him when he summoned Pangu's pressure.

The presence vanished in a flash, but Nuwa still caught it with her keen senses.

She and Fuxi had been born near Buzhou Mountain and were no strangers to Pangu's pressure. She recognized it at once as Pangu's presence.

But why did Xiang Dong have Pangu's presence?

Could the previous disturbance at Buzhou Mountain and the appearance of Pangu's will really have had something to do with Xiang Dong?

"I need to hurry."

Di Jiang's stirrings also made Jiang Chen feel pressed for time and gave him a sense of crisis. He had to act faster.

What he didn't know was that the trace of presence he had just leaked had not only given Nuwa much to ponder, but had also attracted trouble.

Deep in a mountain range a thousand li away, a qilin suddenly opened its eyes.

Just now, it had sensed a trace of something, but it had vanished so quickly that it had no time to identify it.

But the stirring in its bloodline had roused it from its long cultivation.

Its bloodline told it there was no need to think. Its bloodline's response was the best guide.

That presence had to mean something good—a treasure.

So it released its Divine Sense, pinpointing Xiang Dong and Nuwa and sweeping over them like a searchlight.

"Nothing, there's nothing at all. They must have hidden it away."

That Divine Sense scanned Xiang Dong and Nuwa back and forth several times. How could the sensation be described?

It was like having someone strip you naked, examine every inch of your body, and then take an X-ray to look inside as well.

It was extremely rude, so under normal circumstances, no one would do it. It was no different from a provocation.

Of course, if you had a way to keep the other party from noticing and could shut the door and sneak a peek, that was another matter.

But the other party made no attempt to conceal it, so it was hard not to notice. The other party wasn't afraid of being discovered either, plainly saying, "So what if you noticed?" It was truly overbearing and tyrannical.

And now, those with the power to be so overbearing and tyrannical were the three innate clans.

After the ferocious beast clan withdrew from the grand stage of the Primordial World, the dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans had taken center stage. Their numbers grew rapidly as they kept expanding and staking out territory.

The earth was the Qilin Clan's power base.

Rumble—

The earth began to shake, and an earth-yellow qilin appeared on the distant horizon.

An Earth Qilin!

Apart from the Primordial Qilin, who possessed all five elements, the descendants of the Qilin Clan generally had only a single attribute. Different attributes had also emerged, such as lightning, wind, and the ink qilin of yin and yang, though most branches still belonged to the five elements.

The Earth Qilin lineage, in particular, was born favored by the earth. Each had a formidable physical body and abundant Law Power, and they had almost no equals in the same realm.

Xiang Dong wasn't quite sure what the other party wanted, but judging by the sight of it, it was clearly coming for him.

Judging by its presence, it was even more formidable than Nuwa. He certainly couldn't beat it in a fight; with his meager cultivation, he couldn't possibly be its match.

So there was only one thing he could do: run!

He grabbed Nuwa by the wrist, and his body turned into a beam of golden light.

By combining the Light Principle and the Space Great Dao, of which he had only grasped the basics, he achieved faster-than-light movement. Xiang Dong called it Flash.

The two figures vanished from where they stood and reappeared several hundred li away.

Seeing its prey flee, the Earth Qilin planted all four hooves on the ground. The power of the earth surged, and its speed shot up. It turned into a streak of yellow light and pursued them relentlessly.

Swish!

Swish!

Swish!

Xiang Dong paid no heed to the consumption at all. Pulling Nuwa along, he used Flash again and again, until the two of them were like a constantly flickering point of light.

Behind them, the Earth Qilin let out an enraged roar.

It hadn't expected that the seemingly insignificant little fellow would possess such a strange Divine Ability, or that even at its speed, it wouldn't be able to catch him anytime soon.

This made no sense!

But that only made it more convinced that the other party had to have some great treasure. Otherwise, he couldn't possibly have such resources at his disposal.

And so a thrilling, protracted chase began.

He fled, it pursued, and even if they grew wings, they couldn't escape.

"Hey, big brother, why are you chasing me?"

As Xiang Dong used Flash, he still had the leisure to conjure a megaphone and shout at the Earth Qilin behind him.

"You have something good on you. Hand it over at once, and I may spare your life."

Something good? He didn't even have a companion spirit treasure, so where would he get something good?

If he had to name something good, Pangu's heartblood and jade marrow did count, but he couldn't hand those two things over.

So Xiang Dong replied.

"Even if I really gave it to you, you couldn't handle it."

"What a joke! What is there that we of the Qilin Clan can't handle? Hand it over at once, junior."

"Stop chasing me, stop chasing me. I really don't have any Jizhi cough syrup."

"Oh, so that thing is called Jizhi cough syrup. Hand it over at once, junior."

The Earth Qilin thought that Jizhi cough syrup sounded like some kind of rare spirit medicine. It had to be something good, or this junior couldn't possibly have lasted so long.

"You dimwitted thing, I already told you I don't have any, and you're still chasing me. And another thing: you're the junior here. I'm the first light of creation. By seniority, even your clan's ancestor, the Primordial Qilin, would count as a junior before me."

"You dare insult my clan's ancestor? Roar!"

The Earth Qilin flew into a rage and pursued Xiang Dong even faster and more fiercely.

Streams of earth-yellow light surged from the depths of the earth and flowed into its body.

It was the power of the earth veins. The land of the Primordial World was replenishing the Law Power it had spent.

Bolstered by the power of the earth veins, the Earth Qilin's speed increased by thirty percent. It stayed hard on the heels of Xiang Dong and Nuwa, and the distance between them began to shrink.

"Damn it, now you're getting fired up, huh?"

Xiang Dong got worked up too. Did it think it was the only one who could borrow power?

My mana bar isn't small either. Don't underestimate the bond between me and my clone!

With a thought, he drew a steady stream of energy from two seas of sunflowers in total: one far away at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, and the other in his true body's diamond-shaped spherical space.

With that energy replenishing him, he used Flash, which already had almost no cooldown, nonstop.

"Here we go!"

"And again!"

Pulling Nuwa along, Xiang Dong flickered ceaselessly like a bouncing photon.

And as Xiang Dong kept using it, his mastery of the Flash skill gradually progressed from grasping the basics to entering the hall, and then to perfection.

The intervals grew shorter and shorter, while the distance covered by each Flash grew longer. As a result, the gap between him and the Earth Qilin gradually widened instead.