Song Wen suddenly discovered that he could no longer sense any of the Gai Family members pursuing him.
Could I have shaken them off?
But my escape speed isn't that fast, is it?
With those thoughts, Song Wen continued deeper underground along the winding cavern passage.
Two Gai Family members had already died by his hand. Guang Xing and the others would surely want nothing more than to kill him, and they would not give up so easily.
He merely needed to wait at his ease for the Gai Family members to come after him.
As he delved deeper underground, the astral winds grew increasingly violent, further compressing the range of Song Wen's divine sense until it gradually fell below a hundred li.
Suddenly.
The passage ahead abruptly widened.
Immediately afterward, an underground cavern hall entered Song Wen's senses.
The cavern hall was not particularly wide, only several dozen li across, but its length was unknown, winding away in two different directions.
Rather than an underground cavern hall, it was more like a broader subterranean corridor.
Song Wen entered through an opening in the cavern hall's ceiling. Without a second thought, he flew against the astral winds toward the front.
After flying less than a hundred li, Song Wen casually chose another among the numerous openings in the ceiling and slipped into it.
Then he concealed his aura completely and stood silently behind a pile of rubble.
Around a dozen breaths later, the five Gai Family members flew from the cave Song Wen had previously exited and entered the underground cavern hall.
They immediately halted, looking in both directions ahead, unable to decide.
"Can any of you tell which way Yan'e escaped?" Guang Xing asked.
"No." Gai Ci took over. "Earlier in the caves, the passages were narrow. Though astral