As a Peak Early Dao Realm expert, Hu Buding was extremely fast.
With a single flash, he streaked into the sky above the eastern courtyard where the incident had occurred—the place where his younger son Hu Guang had been abducted—intending to stop the mysterious person who had taken his son.
But Hu Buding was fast; Ye Zhen was even faster.
When Hu Buding struck down with his palm, all he hit was the afterimage Ye Zhen had left behind.
Hu Buding looked up in astonishment and discovered that the man who had just abducted his son had already appeared fourteen or fifteen li away.
At short range, with Ye Zhen continuously activating Wind Flash Dash, even mid-to-late Dao Realm experts would be left eating dust, much less Hu Buding, who was merely at the Peak Early Dao Realm.
This sight startled Hu Buding. Fury surged straight to his head as he pursued again.
Fourteen or fifteen li was not far. Hu Buding arrived in the time of a single breath.
He had arrived, but Ye Zhen's figure had vanished into thin air.
His old face was so gloomy it seemed water could drip from it. Hu Buding's divine sense spilled in every direction like mercury pouring over the ground.
A moment later, Hu Buding's expression turned several shades uglier.
No one!
Above the heavens and beneath the earth, he could find no trace at all.
At that same instant, Ye Zhen had already appeared deep underground more than ten li away.
Hu Buding's divine sense spread quickly, but he could never have imagined that Ye Zhen had already descended a thousand meters underground and traveled more than ten li away.
Without the aid of special Divine Abilities and Secret Arts, and without a suitable medium, even Dao Realm experts found