Boom!
Taihao Golden Qi surged through Xu Yan's blood. At that moment, he looked especially sacred, as though a mantle of golden light draped his entire body.
Within the Heavenly Terrace Immortal Pool, the ancient aura spilling forth grew ever stronger. It made the skies on all sides tremble faintly, as though they were about to collapse.
Xu Yan struggled onward, but he did not let up.
After an hour, he had caught up with Jiu Daoyan. Barely fifteen yards away to his right, that bedraggled figure crouched on the mountainside, his face deathly pale.
Xu Yan turned to look at him, his gaze utterly calm, as though he were looking at a dead man.
Behind Jiu Daoyan, the Yin-Reversing Yang-Disordering Edict Script Xu Yan had unleashed earlier was slowly approaching. It was now less than ten yards away.
The higher it climbed, however, the fiercer the immortal pool's pressure became. The Edict Script was suppressed by it as well.
But at this rate, the Yin-Yang-Reversing Edict Script would catch Jiu Daoyan within another hour at most. Like a black hole, it moved up the mountainside, crushing and devouring everything in its path with its power!
"Fellow Daoist Jiu, I'll be going on ahead."
Xu Yan raised an eyebrow and spoke with easy composure.
With his divine abilities unusable and both his body and divine sense suppressed, Xu Yan could do nothing to Jiu Daoyan even from barely a dozen yards away. But now there was no need for him to act personally.
"Xu Yan... Fellow Daoist Xu!"
Cold sweat streamed down Jiu Daoyan's forehead. He glanced from the corner of his eye at the black-hole-like power of the Edict Script behind him, his face bloodless. His voice trembled slightly, no longer as overbearing and unyielding as before.
With death