My whole body was stinging with pain. When I looked at my injuries, I found that fragments of the Dao Artifact had pierced through my Dao Body. I had somehow failed to notice during the pursuit. Several wounds deep enough to show bone, along with the intense pain, told me that I was seriously injured too. If the Emperor's Fury had not been thrown out first to block most of the attacks, I really would have been courting death, just as the old man had said!
Even as I watched the old man's phantom body escape, I continued pursuing him with all my might. But with my Dao Body leaking from all sides, my Dao power was being ruthlessly siphoned away by the Blood Sea. Before I even make it up there, I fear I'll already die and have my Dao scattered!
However, traveling through the Blood Sea in phantom form was also immensely taxing for the old man. Even with a first-grade Dao Body, it was hard to say whether he could make it to the surface. The Blood Sea's intense corrosiveness scorched his phantom body as if water were being roasted beneath the blazing sun. Still, I didn't dare relax even for a moment. I had to catch him!
His bracelet and bundle had been destroyed, but if his phantom body made it up, the other Blood Sea guards would certainly listen to his testimony. The Divine Court would surely take his testimony as the truth. By then, even if I shouted that I had been wronged, no one would believe me!
But as the pursuit dragged on, the distance between us actually grew wider and wider. Though his phantom body was weakened by the scorching, according to my calculations, he might make it to the surface in