One pursued and one fled, flying several million miles.
Two streaks of light, one behind the other, cut across the heavens, sweeping over countless flaming mountain ranges and rivers of lava. Wherever they passed, heat waves billowed and the void cracked from the scorching heat.
Li Qingyuan coughed up blood, his vitality severely depleted. As he fled, he looked back and shouted, "Why are you chasing me?"
"We have no quarrel. I only wanted to ask for directions."
Huo Zhuo sneered. "The rule of the Tail Fire Burning Heaven Domain is that the strong devour the weak."
"The strong prevail, and the weak perish."
"Directions? In the Tail Fire Burning Heaven Domain, asking for directions is asking for death."
"Besides, there's nothing I hate more than human cultivators. I kill every one I see."
Huo Zhuo maintained his speed, pressing closer at every turn. The distance between them shrank visibly. "True immortal early stage perfection. Killing you will earn me a tidy little profit."
Human Clan cultivators' Storage Bags, magical artifacts, Immortal Crystals, Pills—to the Fire Beast Clan's robber cultivators, Human Clan Rogue Cultivators were walking treasure vaults.
Li Qingyuan snorted. "So in the end, you're just a robber cultivator."
"That's right, I'm a robber cultivator. What can you do about it?" Huo Zhuo made no attempt to hide it. The thought of concealing it never even crossed his mind.
In the Tail Fire Burning Heaven Domain, being a robber cultivator was no crime. Being weak was.
His "strength exhausted," Li Qingyuan had no choice but to stop. He formed a Sword Art hand seal, and the Green Wood Heavenly Sun Sword shot forth.
One sword cast its cold light across a hundred thousand miles; one sword carved a sword scar into the heavens.
Sword light stretched across the sky,