The yellow wyrmling slowly sank into the Black Bat's body, silently making it stronger.
Shi Yue furrowed his brows. After hesitating for a moment, a rumble of thunder sounded from his body. Silver light flashed, and a close-fitting suit of Silver Armor appeared around him. It was the Lightning Robe Technique.
A series of muffled crackles rang out as countless Silver Electric Arcs surged across Shi Yue's body, then rushed toward the Black Bat.
The Silver Electric Arcs wrapped the Black Bat up completely. It seemed to have met its natural enemy; it could do nothing against them, trapped in their suffocating embrace.
Shi Yue breathed a sigh of relief. He remembered all too well that Yu Xin had said he could sense Shi Yue's location within ten thousand miles as long as the mark on him remained. Though that claim had probably been exaggerated, it was enough to prove Yu Xin's strength.
Better to believe it than risk being wrong. Shi Yue planned to flee tens of thousands of miles.
With that in mind, he urged the Elk Beast beneath him to speed up. Before long, he disappeared into the depths of the earth.
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Zhongshan Kingdom, Leping Commandery.
The Yunkai Mountains lay southeast of Leping Commandery, stretching for thousands of miles. They were famous as a desolate range, where people were rarely seen.
Deep in the Yunkai Mountains, in a remote, uninhabited valley, the ground suddenly buckled. Yellow light flickered, and Shi Yue burst out of the earth, his face pale.
He had traveled for five days and nights without stopping to rest, barely managing to flee tens of thousands of miles. His mind and spirit were utterly exhausted, but he couldn't be sure Yu Xin wouldn't catch up, so he didn't dare stop.
Shi Yue took out