This Time, It Was Our Turn to Chase Them Down

Over the next few days.

West Qi's side could clearly feel that things were becoming more and more wrong.

At first, their plan had been simple.

The Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island were quite formidable.

The four of them together were even harder to handle.

So they would find a way to split them apart.

Then break them one by one.

There had been nothing wrong with the tactic itself.

The problem was Lin Yuan.

Wang Mo had prepared to pursue the enemy.

Lin Yuan held him back.

Gao Yougan had been provoked.

Lin Yuan stepped in.

Li Xingba went out alone at night.

Lin Yuan had stubbornly dragged his injured body all the way to the ambush site.

Then it was Yang Sen's turn.

The restraining spiritual treasure they had prepared in advance had only just been brought out.

When Lin Yuan exposed it on the spot again.

After several times.

West Qi's side got a headache whenever they saw Lin Yuan.

The kid's own combat strength had not yet reached the point of being truly troublesome.

But he was like an early-warning radar planted on the battlefield.

If there was a pitfall, he called it out.

If there was an ambush, he shouted a warning.

And the crucial part was that the Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island really listened to him now.

Truly, one dared to shout, and all four really stopped.

Thus, during the fifth clash.

West Qi's side simply changed its approach.

They no longer played at luring the enemy.

They went straight for the kill.

The first one targeted was still Gao Yougan.

Several Qi Refiners pressed forward head-on.

Two more launched surprise attacks from the flanks.

Just as Wang Mo and the others prepared to form an array.

A silver curtain of light suddenly descended from the sky.

Separating Gao Yougan by himself.

"Finally done with the tricks?"

Gao Yougan looked at the sealed surroundings and sneered.

"Now you're just going to snatch him by force?"

Outside the array.

Lin Yuan's Innate Spiritual Perception locked onto the curtain of light at once.

"It isn't a complete formation."

"It's only a temporary barrier."

"It can hold for ten breaths at most!"

Hearing this, Wang Mo and the other two immediately bombarded the light curtain head-on.

But the two Qi Refiners inside had already attacked Gao Yougan together.

Ten breaths.

For Immortals, that was enough time to exchange many moves.

If Gao Yougan truly had to withstand two experts of the same realm alone for ten breaths.

The danger would be no small matter.

But this time.

Lin Yuan did not intend to stand outside and wait.

Wind-Thunder Dao Rhyme lit beneath his feet.

Boom!

Lightning flashed.

Lin Yuan actually forced his way through a tiny gap in the light curtain before it had fully closed!

"Junior Brother Lin?!"

Even Gao Yougan froze.

"What are you doing in here?"

"Helping."

Lin Yuan's Qingxuan Sword was already in motion.

"I can't exactly wait for something to happen to you every time before running all over the place putting out fires."

"Tiring."

Gao Yougan: "..."

It sounded like he rather disliked them.

The two Qi Refiners opposite them looked grim.

"Kill Lin Yuan first!"

"Again?"

Lin Yuan laughed.

"Your slogan's been showing up pretty often lately."

Before his words had faded.

Wind-Thunder Escape erupted once more.

In the past, when he faced enemies of a higher realm, his greatest trouble had been that he could not keep up with their speed.

Now, things were completely different.

Lightning flickered.

Before the two Qi Refiners' attacks could even land.

Lin Yuan had already appeared on the other side.

Innate Spiritual Perception handled the judgment of danger.

Supreme Clarity Battle Intent chose the best way to strike back.

Wind-Thunder Escape sent him where he needed to be.

For the first time, the three truly formed a coordinated whole.

Even Lin Yuan himself felt exhilarated.

Fighting used to feel turn-based.

You made a move.

I judged it.

Then I dodged.

But now—

It finally had the feel of real-time combat.

"Senior Brother Gao!"

"Take the one on the left!"

"I'll hold the one on the right for a while!"

Gao Yougan did not waste words.

He lunged straight at the enemy on the left.

Lin Yuan, meanwhile, used Wind-Thunder Escape to continuously drag the other one around.

He could not defeat him.

But the other party could not catch him in a short time either.

Outside, Wang Mo and the other two battered the light curtain madly.

The seventh breath.

Cracks spread everywhere.

The eighth breath.

Boom!

The entire light curtain was smashed apart by brute force.

The instant Wang Mo rushed in, he headed straight for Lin Yuan's opponent.

The man's face turned green on the spot.

Just moments ago, he had been chasing Lin Yuan.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Mo was chasing him instead.

That exchange of identities had been a little too smooth.

"Retreat!"

West Qi's side withdrew once more.

But Lin Yuan did not stop where he was as he had before.

Within his Innate Spiritual Perception.

An even stronger sense of danger suddenly appeared elsewhere.

The direction—

Li Xingba!

"Again?"

Lightning exploded beneath Lin Yuan's feet.

His entire body vanished in an instant.

Li Xingba was currently fighting someone.

He had already heeded Lin Yuan's warning and had not pursued alone.

The problem was that the other side had prepared far more ruthlessly this time.

A magical treasure that had been hidden underground for a long time suddenly shot out.

It stabbed straight toward Li Xingba's back.

The killing intent came with extreme suddenness.

Even Li Xingba himself did not react immediately.

But Lin Yuan sensed it from a hundred zhang away.

Wind-Thunder Escape at full power!

Boom!

Lin Yuan crashed in from the side like a bolt of lightning.

The Thick Earth Sword struck heavily against that magical treasure.

Clang!

The magical treasure veered aside.

Lin Yuan's right hand was jolted numb as well.

But Li Xingba successfully avoided it.

"Junior Brother!"

"Stop shouting."

Lin Yuan gritted his teeth.

"Fight first!"

The situation reversed once again.

All Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island gathered together.

This time.

Lin Yuan did not let them remain where they were.

"The other side has no more tricks left."

"Chase them!"

Wang Mo paused in surprise.

"Really chase them?"

"Chase!"

Lin Yuan's eyes shone.

"But stay together!"

Wang Mo laughed loudly.

"Good!"

The Four Saints joined forces.

Lin Yuan used Wind-Thunder Escape to weave through the outskirts.

The ones originally tasked with ambushing them became the hunted for the first time.

Several West Qi cultivators were driven hundreds of miles away.

They tried to scatter and flee along the way.

But Lin Yuan's Innate Spiritual Perception and Wind-Thunder Escape happened to counter that tactic perfectly.

"Left!"

Wang Mo immediately turned.

"There's another one ahead to the right!"

Yang Sen cut off the path.

"The one behind is trying to circle around!"

Gao Yougan blocked him directly.

The entire battlefield descended into utter chaos.

Wen Zhong stood in the distance and watched for quite a while.

In the end, he could not help but laugh.

"This kid."

"He was always telling others not to give chase."

"Now he's chasing harder than anyone."

The Shang general beside him also laughed.

"Grand Preceptor."

"Immortal Lin calls that analyzing specific situations specifically."

Wen Zhong glanced at him.

"You understand quite a lot."

The pursuit continued for a long time.

In the end, West Qi only managed to retreat safely with the aid of high-level cultivators.

Gao Yougan and Li Xingba had completely passed the final death nodes that belonged to them.

The system trembled twice in succession.

[Target: Gao Yougan.]

[Predestined death trajectory completely severed.]

[Fate Reversal successful!]

[Obtained—Vajra Immortal Bone!]

Boom!

The bones within Lin Yuan's body seemed to be reforged by a terrifying force.

The Blackstone Dao Body had already been incomparably powerful.

Now, with the Vajra Immortal Bone layered atop it.

The strength of his bones surged once more.

Immediately afterward, a second notification appeared.

[Target: Li Xingba.]

[Predestined death trajectory completely severed.]

[Fate Reversal successful!]

[Obtained—Battlefield Killing Intent Perception!]

At that instant.

The world before Lin Yuan's eyes became completely different.

Innate Spiritual Perception could already detect danger.

Battlefield Killing Intent Perception was even more direct.

Who was watching him.

Which area concealed malice.

Which attack had yet to erupt, yet had already formed killing intent.

Countless fragments of scattered information were rapidly gathered together.

The sound of wind.

Ripples of mana.

Hostility.

Killing intent.

Lin Yuan stood in the middle of the battlefield.

He closed his eyes.

Yet he felt everything around him more clearly than when his eyes were open.

Wang Mo walked over from behind.

Just as he raised his hand to pat Lin Yuan's shoulder.

Lin Yuan did not even turn his head.

"Senior Brother Wang."

"Don't pat me."

Wang Mo froze mid-motion.

"Do you have eyes on the back of your head?"

Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

He looked at the senior brothers around him, who had truly emerged from the death trap moments ago.

At last, a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

"More or less."