Escape?
How could I let him escape?
We had doubled back precisely to track down this evil cultivator.
I would not miss any chance to kill him.
Neither would Mao Jing.
Seeing Nine Corpse Daoist flee, I immediately shouted:
"Mao Jing, after him!"
With the ghost tree destroyed, Chen Lou beneath the Octagonal Well could only be left to Feng Shuang and the others.
But Nine Corpse Daoist had to be pursued by us.
Without a second thought, Mao Jing and I charged forward.
Seeing this, Feng Shuang immediately put away the Heaven-and-Earth One-Qi Gourd and said to his team members:
"Leave four behind to save Xiao Chen. The rest of you, come with me to pursue Nine Corpse Daoist."
"Yes, Captain!"
"Captain, I'm coming with you!"
"We can't let that demon Daoist get away."
"..."
In an instant, the seven of us began pursuing him deeper into Xu Family Village.
Our stamina was already nowhere near what it had been last night.
Although we kept close on Nine Corpse Daoist's heels, catching that old bastard anytime soon was still difficult.
Nine Corpse Daoist also knew that once we caught him, death was certain.
So he fled ahead like a madman...
We pursued him straight along Xu Family Gully.
We chased him for a full twenty minutes without catching him.
Ahead lay the end of Xu Family Gully, a sheer cliff covered in jagged rocks.
"Damn it, there's no road ahead. Let's see how that bastard runs now!"
I said.
Mao Jing kept a grim expression and said nothing.
We continued charging forward and quickly reached the end.
But as soon as we arrived, Nine Corpse Daoist stopped running.
He stood at the end of the path before the sheer cliff, with nearly vertical precipices on both sides.
"You people