Ancient Ten-Sun Calamity

He stopped paying attention to the mud-and-stone monsters below.

His body flashed like lightning as he fled at full speed.

Yet it seemed his act of burning them with raging flames had thoroughly enraged the monsters.

One gray-white figure after another stirred awake beneath the ground.

Then they locked onto Li Shun's position and shot toward him.

They blotted out the sky, packed together like clouds.

Seeing this, Li Shun felt his scalp go numb.

"Thunder, Wind, Fierce Change. Though close at hand, one must think; once one has thought, one must act, and once one has acted, one will reach one's destination."

A golden light abruptly enveloped him, and in an instant, Li Shun's speed surged several times over.

This was a flying escape art called Thunder Gale Flashstep, from the Spring-Autumn Brush Lineage.

Though it could greatly increase his flying speed for a short time, afterward the Lixi in his body would be pushed beyond its limits, leaving him weakened. But Li Shun couldn't afford to worry about that now.

He was certain that if those monsters caught him, they would tear him into countless pieces in an instant.

With the secret art upon him, Li Shun soon put some distance between himself and the monsters pursuing him.

But this vast, open wilderness offered nowhere to hide.

So they were always able to keep close behind him.

"A gentleman is broad and at ease; a petty man is fretful and uneasy."

"Withdraw into concealment, where no one knows."

Seeing this, Li Shun sent out several more golden characters in quick succession.

As Lizheng flowed through him, his figure seemed to keep flying forward.

Only, it gradually slowed.

The monsters continued their pursuit.

They didn't realize that the figure was merely an illusionary double conjured by Li Shun.

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