The two sides were evenly matched. Among them, Marys relied on strength and speed boosted by top-grade materials.
Morris, on the other hand, relied purely on his own cultivation realm.
It was a situation where both sides would suffer.
Normally, Marys should have been the first to buckle under the pressure and choose to flee.
Because as time went on, he would inevitably fall into a disadvantage.
The reason it was Morris who could not withstand the pressure first instead lay in the fact that their confidence was completely different.
Marys had already made a last-ditch effort.
He understood very clearly that since he had never been able to escape Morris's pursuit, his only path to survival was to severely injure Morris and force Morris, unwilling to die together with him, to flee instead.
He was betting that Morris feared the Shadow Emperor and the Soul Emperor of the Soul Race, and did not dare let himself fall into a state where he was so badly injured that his strength plummeted.
Once he fell into such a state, and the Shadow Emperor and the Soul Emperor of the Soul Race discovered and found him, Morris would be dead for certain.
And he dared to make that bet.
The Earth Tree Race was proficient in the Law of Karma, and they also had some understanding of fortune.
With a Top-Grade Treasure in his hand that could lock down fortune, no matter what, his fortune ought to far surpass Morris, who was plagued by bad luck.
Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Morris's fortune was draining away in the Local Galaxy Cluster yet still towered to the heavens, he still was not afraid.
Because at the very least, he could still rely on the Top-Grade Treasure to ensure that the last