Beyond Sky-Rending Gorge lay a vast plain, flat and open. Such terrain was simply brimming with malice toward Lu Ye's current predicament, for there was nowhere at all to hide.
He took out the Ten-Part Map to inspect it. Beyond this plain stood a mountain; on the other side of the mountain was a great river. Several dozen miles past the river was a marketplace.
Into the mountains! Lu Ye made the decision without hesitation. He did not know what methods a Spirit Stream Realm Seventh Layer cultivator possessed, but in his current situation, entering the mountains was his only sliver of hope.
Yet the mountain was not close. Even at Amber's pace, it would take an hour to reach.
Lu Ye silently prayed that Dong Shuye would not run too fast.
The thought had barely arisen when a sensation like needles pricking his back struck him. Turning to look behind, Lu Ye was startled. From the direction of Sky-Rending Gorge, a streak of light was rapidly sweeping toward him. There was no need to think about it—the streak was Dong Shuye, coming to hunt him down. Though they were far apart, Dong Shuye spotted Lu Ye riding Amber at once, his hawk-like gaze locking onto him from afar.
That prickling sensation on Lu Ye's back was precisely the other man's killing intent.
He could fly? Lu Ye's heart sank.
He had thought that with Amber, there was a good chance he could escape this man's pursuit. Amber was quite fast when running, and under the urgency of the present circumstances, it was already giving its all.
But he had never imagined that Dong Shuye could actually fly!
The situation was enormously unfavorable. One ran on the ground while the other flew through the sky—Amber clearly could not escape.
Yet