"Ah!"
With a short, shrill scream, the middle-aged female cultivator who had ambushed Wang Chen was struck by a Fire Crow descending from the sky.
Her Protection spiritual light shattered in an instant, and her entire body was engulfed by searing flames, turning to ash in the blink of an eye!
This middle-aged female cultivator had actually been quite formidable, her cultivation having reached the seventh level of Qi Condensation.
Yet she still could not withstand a single strike from Wang Chen.
This was the unbridgeable gulf between a Qi Condensation cultivator and a Purple Mansion cultivator!
"Retreat!"
The bandit leader who witnessed this was beside himself with rage. He immediately sprang backward and darted away, vanishing into the dense forest in an instant.
The other bandit cultivators scattered and fled as well.
Knowing full well how formidable Wang Chen was, they fled in different directions.
Wang Chen reached out and recalled the Wind Thunder Sword, then set off in pursuit.
He ignored the minor lackeys and kept his eyes fixed on the leader, following him all the way.
Though unfamiliar with the terrain, given Wang Chen's current cultivation and strength, catching up to this high-level Qi Condensation bandit would have been no trouble at all. Yet he merely followed behind at an unhurried pace.
The bandit leader cultivated some kind of Evasion Technique, and he flitted through the forest at tremendous speed.
He was also exceptionally wary and cunning. His escape route was impossible to trace, veering left and right, leaping up and down.
Even cultivators of the same realm would have found it difficult to keep tracking him without being noticed. Even Purple Mansion cultivators would not find it easy.
Wang Chen kept a distance of three to four hundred paces from him and empowered himself with the