A light rain cleared, and the vast sky turned blue.
Two birds spread their wings, soaring leisurely beneath the fresh, rain-washed sky.
Suddenly!
Light came first, sound followed.
By the time the streak of Evasive Light appeared a thousand miles away, the two birds seemed only just to realize something was wrong.
A brilliant golden trail hung across the heavens, stark against the spotless blue sky.
Had someone passed by?
The next instant!
A tremendous boom erupted.
The two birds burst into a cloud of blood mist.
A figure shrouded in dense bloodlight abruptly appeared, his sharp eyes fixed on the distance. It was Luo Chen.
"Trying to flee back to the Heavenly Phoenix Clan?"
There was no mistaking it. Qixia Yuanjun was fleeing toward Sunset Plain, a necessary stop on the way to the Heavenly Phoenix Clan.
If she made it back, Luo Chen could forget about hunting her down. Countless Demon Race experts would be hunting him instead.
Luo Chen understood that better than anyone.
In fact!
The moment he chose to act rather than keep suppressing himself, all so he could pursue peace of mind, this outcome had become inevitable.
But before that...
Luo Chen drew a deep breath, and a glimmer rapidly surfaced across his body.
A fleeing Primordial Spirit moved far too quickly. Even with a speed far beyond others of his stage, Luo Chen could not catch a Primordial Spirit that moved almost by teleportation.
But just because he could not did not mean nothing else in the world could.
The glimmer grew brighter until it enveloped him completely, faintly revealing a dark-gold Gu with dreamlike wings.
It was Kong Kong Er, the Vacuum Gu.
Their minds were linked. At Luo Chen's thought, the dark-gold Gu gave its wings a slight tremor.
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