Whoosh.
A figure shot straight into the depths at remarkable speed.
In the blink of an eye, he had covered One Hundred Meters.
Outside, that speed would have been nothing. Any Saint Martial Grandmaster could have overtaken him with ease, let alone Du Lei.
But this was the Heavenly Ruins.
The deeper one went, the more violent the Origin Laws and the Great Dao's Dao Resonance became.
Under those conditions, forget moving at a Saint Martial Grandmaster's speed. Managing the speed of a Meridian Opening Realm Warrior would already be impressive.
Du Lei, at least, could not move that fast.
Watching the figure race ahead, Du Lei could not help but feel shock and disbelief flash through his eyes.
Then his face abruptly stiffened, and he looked as though he had seen a ghost.
"Qin Hao?!" Du Lei nearly cried out.
The figure overtaking him was unmistakably Qin Hao.
"How is that possible? Qin Hao's only at the Fifth Layer of Venerable Martial Realm... Wait."
Disbelief struck Du Lei almost instinctively, but his pupils soon contracted. "No. Qin Hao must have made a breakthrough. Otherwise, with only Fifth-Tier Destruction Laws, he could never have reached this far."
Among the Azure Flame Sect's many Inner Disciples, only Du Lei, Ji Yuanjie, Song Jingchen, and that female disciple had ventured this deep into the Falling Star Belt.
Everyone else trailed far behind the four of them.
Du Lei had considered that someone might catch up. He simply had not expected Qin Hao to be the first.
After all, there were eighteen disciples at the Ninth Layer of Venerable Martial Realm. Even excluding Du Lei and the other three, that left fourteen Ninth Layer Venerables.
Reaching the Ninth Layer of Venerable Martial Realm meant each of them had mastered at least one set