Long Cloud Island was not too far from where the two of them currently were—half a day's journey in total.
They flew all the way, yet could not shake off their pursuers.
Whenever they encountered formidable enemies along the way, Lu Ye and Xia He could only avoid their sharp edge and take detours. As a result, the number of pursuers behind them steadily grew.
Until a sky-reaching expanse of blood-red entered their vision, Xia He revealed a look of despair. "There's no chance!"
Long Cloud Island had already been surrounded. A massive Blood River coiled around the entire island. Long Cloud Island itself was nowhere to be seen; all that filled their sight was endless blood-red.
"There is a chance!" Lu Ye's eyes lit up instead.
If Long Cloud Island had been under a normal siege, it truly would not have been easy for him and Xia He to fight their way inside. But from the look of things, the main force besieging Long Cloud Island seemed to be the Blood Race!
That Blood River encircling the entire island was the clearest sign.
This undoubtedly gave him room to act.
"We can't fight our way in. There must be many enemies in that Blood River." Xia He shook her head.
"How would we know without trying? Or do we have somewhere else to go?"
Xia He gave a bitter smile. Where else could they go? With so many pursuers behind them, even if they could shake them off, there was nowhere safe to take shelter in this Cage Sea.
It could be said that ever since the place where they had been hiding was discovered, they had already been caught in a nine-deaths-and-one-life situation.
"Then let's gamble on it!" Xia He gritted her teeth. Though she knew hope was