The Blood Robe Man hung in mid-air, his face dark.
Blood light flickered within his pupils, as though he were observing something, searching for some trace. Then his body suddenly turned into a flowing light and plunged into the sea.
After diving several dozen zhang down,
he saw Li Tianchou's corpse lying silently upon the seafloor.
"Damn it!"
Cursing under his breath, the Blood Robe Man's face became exceedingly ugly.
Yet he did not attempt to track down the person who had killed Li Tianchou.
That fellow was clearly extremely shrewd. Once he had dived into the sea, his scent would rapidly disperse and all traces would vanish. With the seawater's obstruction, the tracking ability of divine sense was greatly reduced.
There was simply no way to catch up.
However,
how could he truly allow that man to flee so freely?!
A fierce glint flashed through the Blood Robe Man's eyes. He took out a blood-colored Jade Talisman, activated the Runes within it, and muttered softly, seemingly contacting Fellow Sect Members elsewhere.
After standing there for a long while,
he grabbed Li Tianchou's corpse in one hand, transformed into an Escape Light, and shot into the sky, disappearing beyond the horizon.
Zhang Qingyuan knew nothing of what happened behind him.
But what he did know was this:
after he left, an extraordinarily terrifying Aura was rushing toward the place where his earlier battle had taken place.
There was no need to think further.
Nine times out of ten, it was related to the Blood Robe Man he had slain.
That Aura,
while not as vast and boundless as the Cave True Realm, stretching beyond sight,
was still absolutely not something he could contend against.
So Zhang Qingyuan fled,
and fled at tremendous speed.
If he fell into the other party's