Heavenly Thunder Raged, the Divine Sword Drew It Down, and the Jade Heavens Swept Clean the Dust of Ten Thousand Miles!

Beyond the Ninth Mountain.

A streak of golden light tore through the air.

The moment he entered the Ninth Mountain, he hesitated, then flew on.

Di Wanyun's face was grim.

He had thought revenge would be his for the taking, but one complication had followed another.

Neither Luo Chen's defensive spell, honed to near perfection, nor Chu Kui's ability to wield Golden Core techniques with another person's Golden Core had been within his expectations.

They had forced him to undo the Wither Bloom Seal suppressing his cultivation.

The Flame Alliance's Wither Bloom Seal was peculiar.

A Golden Core Cultivator formed it with Wither Bloom Fire when he began to decline and his lifespan neared its end.

It reduced expenditure and hastened bodily decline, thereby extending his lifespan.

That was the "wither" in Wither Bloom Fire.

But once the seal was released, he flared back to life like cold ashes, returning to the height of his power.

It looked dazzling, a return to his peak.

In truth, it was fire poured onto boiling oil. What rose to its height would inevitably fall.

Once flourishing turned to decline, the loss of lifespan he had suppressed would accelerate wildly.

I must kill Luo Chen quickly, then return to the Flame Alliance. Otherwise, the consequences will be endless!

Yet even as Di Wanyun thought this, the distance he could not close left him seething.

What flying spell has that brat mastered to move so fast?

His escape speed was almost equal to a Golden Core Cultivator's!

"Hm?"

"He seems to be slowing down!"

Di Wanyun felt Luo Chen's speed steadily decrease.

He was still far faster than a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator, but Di Wanyun could now close the gap.

A cold smile touched Di Wanyun's lips.

"That secret art must come at quite