Chasing me, I'll let you...

"Mm..."

"Ah..."

"Kimoji..."

"*(Vulgar Language)..."

"Jiang Lin Old Thief! Fight me... ah..."

"Flower-Picking Thief Jiang Lin! My Unadorned Willow Sect will never rest until... ugh..."

Within the Unlimited Blade Works domain Jiang Lin had deployed, he was like a sage refining a slice of heaven, elevating his original Cave Mansion Realm cultivation by one full realm, straight into the Sea Gazing Realm.

Cave Mansion Realm, Sea Gazing Realm.

Emerging from the cave to behold the sea, one's vision and state of mind naturally broaden. A cultivator refines both qi and heart. With Sea Gazing Realm strength paired with this domain that bent to his will, Jiang Lin moved.

Flying Swords that had somehow risen from the ground streaked past. Jiang Lin's figure was like a sword, like a phantom.

"You actually have your own slice of heaven!"

In less than a quarter of an hour, within the Unlimited Blade Works domain, a pile of unconscious cultivators lay sprawled on the ground, a few still twitching and kicking. Ye Liangchen and Zhao Hao leaned on their swords, spat out their last words with foam at the mouth, and collapsed...

Jiang Lin, back turned to them, slowly rotated, lifted his head to the sky: "Invincible... why is it always so lonely..."

As the words landed, the domain vanished. Jiang Lin's legs went weak, feeling as if his body had been hollowed out, and he pitched forward.

"Jiang Lin!"

Chen Jia hurried over to support him.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine. Just used my Ultimate Move, Out of Mana."

Leaning on Chen Jia's shoulder, Jiang Lin gasped for air.

Truth be told, when he'd used "I am the Bone of my Sword" back then, he'd been pretty panicked, thinking, If I can't win, won't I be screwed?

But he never expected Unlimited Blade Works to be this strong, directly boosting his cultivation by one realm.

The price, though, was that it drained too much mana. In less than a quarter of an hour, his Spiritual Power felt nearly sucked dry.

"Chen Jia."

"Mm?"

"Why do you smell so good..."

Resting his head against Chen Jia's, Jiang Lin asked without thinking.

Hearing this, Chen Jia smiled amiably: "Do you want to die?"

"..."

"Fourth Shrinking Circle begins. The Poison Circle is contracting. All cultivators, please relocate as soon as possible..."

Just as Jiang Lin felt Chen Jia's Killing Intent steadily rising, a voice rang through the entire secret realm from the sky!

"I'll settle accounts with you later. Let's go!"

With that, Chen Jia moved to forcibly carry Jiang Lin and run from the poison.

"Wait!"

Jiang Lin struggled free from Chen Jia's shoulder and walked toward the unconscious cultivators. He kept groping over their bodies. Anything that couldn't be taken because it was refined into a Natal Treasure was left behind; everything else, Jiang Lin fished out and stuffed into his Spatial Item (storage ring).

"What are you doing? Isn't the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram already in your hands? The Poison Circle is almost here, and you're still in the mood to loot corpses?!"

The fourth Poison Circle spread faster and faster, visibly closing in. Yet this guy still had the mood to loot corpses!

Just as Chen Jia angrily prepared to kick Jiang Lin in the ass, the bastard actually called him over to loot corpses together, even saying something about a Fifty-Fifty Split!

Chen Jia really wanted to just leave this Money Grubber here, but felt that wouldn't be right...

When the Poison Circle touched their heels, Chen Jia and Jiang Lin finally finished looting, not even leaving the victims' clothes behind—only a pair of shorts remained...

Carrying Jiang Lin on his back, Chen Jia switched to a breath of Martial Warrior True Qi and sprinted forward.

Since the third Shrinking Circle had already halved the secret realm's area, the remaining Safe Zone wasn't large. Cultivators clashed even more fiercely. During the fourth Shrinking Circle, the sounds of battle explosions could be heard not far away, and they were fighting while running...

"Jiang Lin, you Flower-Picking Thief! If you've got guts, stop right there!"

"It's Jiang Lin!"

"He's the one who defiled my Goddess!"

"Kill him!"

"Young Master Jiang, want to Have Babies with me?"

During the Running from the Poison, Jiang Lin was like a magnet, crazily drawing aggro. Many sects that had originally planned their poison-running routes all changed course and chased after Jiang Lin!

"You're the Flower-Picking Thief! Your whole family are Flower-Picking Thieves! If you can catch me, then I'll let you—"

On Chen Jia's back, Jiang Lin taunted relentlessly.

Since flying was impossible, compared to Chen Jia—a pure Sixth Realm Martial Warrior (suppressed to the Fifth Realm in the Bewildering Secret Realm) who was like a wild horse off the reins—those cultivators were just a pack of Huskies.

Although there were also some Pure Martial Warriors among them, even at the same cultivation level, they were far inferior.

"Bastard! You're still making a girl carry you?! Do you have any shame?!"

A man, also a Pure Martial Warrior, shouted from behind.

"Who are you calling a sissy?!"

Chen Jia suddenly spun around and threw a punch at the man. The man's Life-Saving Talisman activated instantly, and he was eliminated from the Secret Realm...

On the road of Running from the Poison, Jiang Lin wasn't the only one being chased. A cultivator who was riding two boats at once was also being hunted by his Senior and Junior Sisters from the same Sect. Some Sects that had never gotten along were putting on a drama of "What are you looking at?" "What, can't I look?" as they ran, and then they started fighting.

There were even two guys who had been pursuing the same Female Cultivator from a Daoist Sect who brawled. The scene was lively and chaotic, and they didn't even notice when the Poison Circle arrived. In the end, they were all eliminated together.

By nightfall, the fourth Shrinking Circle had finally ended. Everyone had taken up their strategic positions. Some planned to Wait for a Lucky Break, some intended to take the initiative and attack to seize Opportunities, and others wanted to explore the surroundings to see if they could find any treasures.

After running all day, drenched in sweat, Chen Jia set Jiang Lin down in a cave and tossed a few wild rabbits down as well.

Chen Jia sat to the side, recovering his strength, while Jiang Lin finished dressing the rabbits.

He took out a brush, soy sauce, fine salt, cumin, and his own homemade BBQ Sauce from his Storage Ring, and then started barbecuing.

After a satisfying meal of roasted rabbit, Jiang Lin was about to Divide the Spoils with Chen Jia, but Chen Jia just said, "You handle it. I'll go check the surroundings for enemies," and walked off.

Jiang Lin didn't think much of it. He carefully poured out his Spoils of War and counted them one by one.

To be honest, even if he couldn't get their life-bound treasures, the other personal items they carried were still worth a lot. Plus, he had managed to find quite a few Mid-Grade Spirit Stones on Zhao Hao and Ye Liangchen.

Those two Sects were really loaded.

But just as Jiang Lin had emptied out all his Spoils of War—since the Mountains and Rivers State Diagram's special properties prevented it from being stored in the Storage Ring—he reached into his bosom to check for the diagram, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead!

"Shit! Where's my artistically cultured diagram?!"

At the same time, a thousand meters away from the cave where Jiang Lin was, a woman wearing a Bamboo Hat was strolling slowly...

"Hm? What's this?"

She bent down and picked up an irregular scroll fragment from the grass, like a torn corner of a painting scroll.