Upon hearing the voice and looking up to see that unmistakable head of red hair, Ye Zhen knew who had blocked him here so precisely.
Pei Wei, the Upper Realm envoy of exceedingly mysterious strength whom the Longevity Sect had invited!
Ye Zhen abruptly halted, and a Profound Fire Spirit Armor condensed from Earth Meridian Heavenly Fire covered his entire body.
Pei Wei, hovering above Ye Zhen, showed no intention of moving. He merely watched Ye Zhen with the gaze of a cat toying with a mouse, a slightly mocking smile on his lips.
"May I ask how you managed to intercept me so coincidentally? It wasn't a coincidence, was it?" Seeing that his opponent did not intend to attack immediately, Ye Zhen was in no hurry to escape. Instead, he voiced his doubt.
This was something Ye Zhen truly could not figure out.
He had been traveling underground, at least ten meters beneath the surface, leaving neither form nor trace. Most importantly, when Ye Zhen had emerged from underground, it had been a spur-of-the-moment decision, an act made on a whim. So how had the other party intercepted him so exactly?
"Hmph, this is merely the most inferior sort of earth-escape technique. By tracing the fluctuations of the Earthly Meridian a little, your earth escape is no different from stealing in broad daylight in my eyes.
"Only in some backwater wasteland like the True Profound Continent could you repeatedly succeed and use it as you pleased. If this were where we come from, hmph, you wouldn't even know how you died!"
At this point, Pei Wei gave Ye Zhen a rather appreciative look. "Still, it is quite rare for a brat like you, with merely fourth level Pulse Forging Realm cultivation, to master such an earth-escape technique. More remarkably,