Returning to the Xuan You Great World, Wu Hanyan's Black Heart

After Lin Changqing tore open the Senluo Heaven and Earth Devil Net, he immediately employed the Great Teleportation Technique. With a flash, he shot out through the opening, then flickered and teleported several times through the vast starry sky before vanishing into its boundless depths.

It had all happened far too quickly, virtually in the time it took for a spark to fly from flint. Lin Changqing had gained a clear measure of his own strength. At the start of his battle with the Fifth-Tier Heavenly Demon King, they had been evenly matched, but after the Heavenly Demon King unleashed a strike with his Heaven and Earth Dharma Aspect, Lin Changqing understood the gap between them.

Though he cultivated all manner of divine abilities, possessed deep foundations, and wielded peerless combat strength, truly contending against a Fifth-Tier Saint Realm expert was still somewhat beyond him. However, he had many advantages of his own. If he wished, he could even invoke the power of the Square Inch Pagoda and place himself in an innately invincible position.

But the Square Inch Pagoda was simply too significant. It was a supreme treasure that surpassed Innate Spirit Treasures. Once it was exposed, who knew how many pairs of eyes would fix upon him? That would bring him no end of trouble.

Thus, unless driven into a corner, Lin Changqing was unwilling to expose the Square Inch Pagoda.

For all these reasons, Lin Changqing had resolved to withdraw directly rather than entangle himself too deeply with that Fifth-Tier Heavenly Demon King.

Meanwhile, within the Starry Sky Ruins, the Fifth-Tier Heavenly Demon King watched Lin Changqing tear open the Senluo Heaven and Earth Devil Net and flee calmly away. His face instantly twisted. The strike he had unleashed with his Heaven and Earth Dharma Aspect had