More than half a month ago, Ye Zhen had set out from White Tiger City and arrived in Qingqiu. He had traveled at full speed the entire way, taking a total of fourteen days.
But on the return journey, they were no longer merely traveling at full speed—they were risking their lives!
Little Cat maintained its speed at nearly its limit of five hundred thousand li per hour, but it could not sustain such high speed for long.
So every day, Ye Zhen gave Little Cat one hour to rest.
During that hour, however, Ye Zhen and the others did not stop traveling.
Instead, Ye Zhen took over personally and continuously used Wind Flash Dash to race onward.
With Ye Zhen's current cultivation, he could continuously use Wind Flash Dash for half an hour, then fly at high speed for another half hour, barely reaching three hundred thousand li per hour.
Once Ye Zhen could no longer hold on, Little Cat would take over and carry everyone onward.
By traveling day and night at full speed like this, Ye Zhen's group reached White Tiger City in just nine and a half days, four and a half days faster than their journey there.
This allowed Ye Zhen to breathe a slight sigh of relief.
According to Tu Jinggao's warning, the pursuers had set out a day and a half after Ye Zhen and the others left. Unfortunately, Tu Jinggao had not departed with them, so Ye Zhen did not know exactly where the pursuers had reached.
Still, Ye Zhen could roughly infer that, at their speed, they should be ahead of the pursuers by as little as three to five days, or as much as around ten days.
Yet he could not be completely certain. After all, strange arts, secret methods,