The Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl had granted Ye Zhen Great Wind's innate talent for speed, allowing his speed to increase severalfold, even dozens of times over.
However, due to the Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl being incomplete, it possessed an irreparable flaw.
Or rather, the innate divine ability of Great Wind's speed that Ye Zhen had obtained was itself incomplete.
After several contests of speed with Little Cat, Ye Zhen discovered that within a hundred li, he maintained an absolute lead over Little Cat.
But after a hundred li, the distance between Little Cat and Ye Zhen would steadily shrink.
It was not that Little Cat had become faster. Little Cat's speed had not changed; rather, Ye Zhen had slowed down, and he grew slower and slower. The longer it continued, the greater the reduction became.
After a thousand li, Little Cat caught up to the distance Ye Zhen had initially opened up and began to pull ahead.
After five thousand li, Little Cat was already five hundred li ahead of Ye Zhen, and after ten thousand li, Little Cat was two thousand li ahead.
During flight, Ye Zhen could clearly sense that his speed reached its peak the instant he started, then slowly and continuously declined.
Ye Zhen could distinctly sense that the longer he flew, the more sluggish his influence over the wind spiritual energy between heaven and earth became. It no longer felt as freely responsive as it had at the start.
Ye Zhen guessed that this was likely caused by the incompleteness of the Great Wind Essence Soul Pearl.
However, Ye Zhen soon discovered that if he deliberately lowered his speed to a certain degree instead of constantly maintaining high-speed flight, that obvious sluggishness would lessen considerably.
Afterward, Ye Zhen made several more fully focused