The Final Beneficiary

Choosing to flee had been Gangxing Budao True Lord's greatest miscalculation on this journey.

Had he not expected Lu Yang and Sky Soaring to stop him from fleeing? Of course he had. He had anticipated it, since he had already seen that there was a trap here.

The problem lay in how he fled.

In his view, if Sky Soaring and Lu Yang wanted to stop his escape, they would do nothing more than set up an array inside the Nourishing Life Lord, cutting off his connection with the outside world.

Thus, most of his preparations had been aimed at precisely that.

Yet Sky Soaring had anticipated his anticipation. He had not made a move within the Nourishing Life Lord at all, instead using a simpler and more direct method.

To leave the Nourishing Life Lord, one first had to sense the Void Darkness Land, then choose coordinates to enter the Outer Heaven Light Sea. Sky Soaring's preparations lay within the Void Darkness Land, a region that should have been absolutely safe—one that not even Gangxing Budao True Lord would have guarded against in the slightest.

Yet at this moment.

Just as Gangxing Budao True Lord connected to the Void Darkness Land and prepared to flee, a ray of heavenly light shone down from the Void Darkness Land, which should have been safe.

"Got you!"

In an instant, the unprepared Gangxing Budao True Lord took that beam of heavenly light head-on, and his vision immediately spun wildly.

"Bastard!"

Gangxing Budao True Lord was no fool. In a single instant, he understood what had happened: it was not that the absolutely safe Void Darkness Land had gone wrong.

It was his perception that had gone wrong.

He had thought he was sensing the Void Darkness Land, but he had actually fallen