Hoo—!
He exhaled a breath, five elements circulating within it. The powers of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth bloomed with different radiance, endlessly arising and fading away.
Slowly opening his eyes, Li Su relaxed all over.
At last, he had purged his injuries. The power that had been driven into his organs, marrow, and even the Dao-rule scriptures had all been expelled from his body, bit by bit.
It had taken longer than he expected.
A full ten days had passed before he recovered completely.
Fortunately, he had already cultivated the Yi Wood Immortality Scripture to an extremely high realm. Every cell in his body contained immense vitality, to the point where he could regenerate from a drop of blood. Otherwise, fully recovering would likely have taken quite some time.
After all, every purge required him to destroy parts of himself, slowly squeezing that being's power out from within.
The pain of the process went without saying. The expenditure involved was what truly terrified him.
Once he confirmed that Chen Ke had entered, Li Su did not act immediately. Instead, he remained seated cross-legged upon the sea.
He was currently in the shallow-middle region of the great mist. The obstruction to divine sense here was not quite as severe, yet he could enter the deep region in an instant if necessary.
There was no helping it. At his current stage, against the Human Emperor, he had not even the slightest chance of victory. The gap between them was simply too vast.
His escape earlier had been entirely due to luck.
He did not know why the other party had failed to catch up. At the time, although he had begun to flee, it had already been too late. He had been severely wounded twice in succession, and a great