"Don't... don't chase me..."
Lightning was already panting from exhaustion, his lightning sphere flickering on and off as though it could go out at any moment.
The pursuers were no better off, yet they still refused to give up.
"Chase, chase, chase! Keep chasing! This Venerable One will fight you to the death!"
At that moment, Lightning Transcendent stopped fleeing. He drove his laws with all his strength, squeezing out the last thread of lightning.
A blue sphere of lightning whirled around him with a howl, carrying such terrifying might that it seemed he intended to perish together with everyone else.
"Not good, he's launching a desperate counterattack before death!"
Everyone brought out defensive measures. None of them wanted to risk their lives against him now.
Thunder roared, and light pierced the entire void.
Then—
The sound gradually weakened. The lightning strike that had just been brewing immense terror had now lowered its banners and muffled its drums, only symbolically dropping two arcs of electricity.
No one remained where he had stood.
"Damn it! We've been played again!"
What perishing together, what desperate counterattack before death—it had all been nothing but that fellow putting on a bluff.
"After him!"
Another chase erupted.
Inside the warship, Jiang Yan sensed through the Jungle Law that the realm stone was drawing ever closer to him.
"Heh, it fell right into my lap without any effort."
At most, he would catch up to the prey in another two or three hours.
Yet he was in no hurry, because the eighth bell had yet to ring. This was not a good time to fight over the realm stone.
In the warship's resting cabin, Jiang Yan calmly sparred with the Sharp Ruler Tiger in the laws.
By now, he could shift the Abyssal Thunder Annihilation Slash