Running, chasing—before they knew it, three Void Ember Years had passed.
Qin Heng deliberately slowed down, giving the hundred thousand Eternals under the Skeletal God Emperor and Void Origin God Emperor a chance to pursue him.
Otherwise, if he moved at full speed, then in this Chaos Sea, probably only a handful of Holy Emperors and god-level figures who had comprehended Space Law could keep up with him.
In the Skeletal God Emperor's eyes, this was because Qin Heng was injured and had yet to recover his origin, leaving him able only to travel in fits and starts.
Yet whenever they were about to catch Qin Heng, he would slip away again. It left them both furious and exasperated, as though they were being toyed with, and their killing intent grew ever stronger.
By the beginning of the fourth Void Ember Year, Qin Heng had already covered more than half the distance. Only four hundred million light-years remained before he reached the Giant God Coffin.
At this time, Dong Huaiyue received news from the Void Ash God Kingdom's seniors. Frowning, she said, "Only a dozen or so God Emperors are still close on our heels. Most of them are much slower and remain two hundred million light-years away."
Traveling through the Chaos Sea was simply too slow. No one could teleport or shift through space; relying solely on flight, even at hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of times the speed of light, was still turtle-slow.
Qin Heng considered it. "The difference in speed will stretch out their formation. By the time we reach the Giant God Coffin, many pursuers will surely still be hundreds of millions of light-years away and unable to enter the field."
Their goal was to use the Giant God Coffin's sealed environment to slaughter every