In the Beast-Grazing Land, beneath a gray, hazy sky, Li Yun suddenly lowered his blade. An inexplicable dread surged through him.
It was an instinctive warning, his Hyperacute Intuition sensing danger before it arrived.
Without a word, he pushed his talent to its limit and concealed his aura completely. Then he flashed into a nearby Demon People settlement without a sound.
The settlement was small, home to a few hundred Demon People. Its strongest inhabitant was only fourth-rank, on par with a human Grandmaster.
Li Yun sank into it like a stone into water, raising not a ripple.
He hid inside a dilapidated Stone House, his body half-buried in the ground. Even his breathing temporarily ceased.
A moment later, violent energy fluctuations came from the distance.
Three terrifying auras streaked across the sky like meteors. Wherever they passed, the Weird Beasts on the ground fell flat and trembled.
Ahead of those three auras, a figure fled for his life.
The man was drenched in blood, his clothes torn, his aura in utter disarray.
At this distance, and with Li Yun unwilling to extend his senses, he could not directly determine the man's cultivation level.
But experience still let him make a rough judgment: the man was at least a Martial King, and an exceptionally powerful one—stronger than both Martial King Cangjiu and the Redfire Martial King, whom Li Yun had defeated before!
For an expert like that to appear in the Beast-Grazing Land, then be hunted to the very brink of death, was rare.
Li Yun had traveled through the Beast-Grazing Land many times and had never encountered anything like it.
He suspected the man's identity was no simple matter.
"After him! Don't let him escape!"
A hoarse roar sounded from behind the fugitive. The three pursuers moved like lightning,