Turning Defeat into Victory
Even after breaking the seal of the Imitation Star-Type Celestial Transformation, He Ping's group had not completely shaken off the pursuit of "Falling Star Patriarch" Chu Zhaoyuan.
This time, the two sides had forged a bitter blood feud. After this battle, Xuantian Temple would certainly not let He Ping's group off easily, nor did Chu Zhaoyuan have any such intention. He had been intercepting He Ping, Great Sage Lieyun, and Zi Biluo amid the turbulent void currents.
After all, he was a powerful peak loose immortal. Even without a sect-protecting supreme treasure, he could move freely through the turbulent void currents. He could also calculate the heavenly numbers and heavenly secrets to track the Seven Seas Kingdom Sphere's location.
Even for a loose immortal powerhouse, tracking an enemy alone through the turbulent void currents without a sect-protecting supreme treasure for protection was somewhat strenuous. It was like traveling by boat across the sea; with the strength of vessel and oars to rely on, the journey naturally became far easier.
As for another person, because he knew the water intimately, he swam through it to roam the sea. No matter how skilled a swimmer he was, what he expended was always his own strength.
Yet Chu Zhaoyuan had cultivated the Imitation Star-Type Celestial Transformation. Drawing upon the power of the middle thousand worlds within the spacetime of the minor universe, he could enter the turbulent void currents like a fish returning to water, utterly at ease. Unfortunately, the enemies he faced—his targets for pursuit—were no simple figures either. Great Sage Lieyun and the others maneuvered the Seven Seas Kingdom Sphere with such slippery deftness that his formerly unfailing tracking methods were inevitably blunted.
Chu Zhaoyuan also knew full well that he absolutely could not let He Ping