The eight Foundation Establishment cultivators moved with extraordinary speed. Escape lights of various colors streaked across the night sky like meteors in the eyes of mortal folk, radiating the powerful spirit pressure and aura of the Foundation Establishment realm.
They pursued the five remaining Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Hehuan Sect, who had scattered to flee.
Communication through divine sense was exceedingly swift. Within a breath or two, they had assigned their respective targets.
Liu Yu and another fellow sect member at the Foundation Establishment early stage, whose magical artifact had been destroyed, pursued a Hehuan Sect cultivator who was likewise at the Foundation Establishment early stage.
Through their conversation, Liu Yu learned that his companion was named Yao Yunsong. He had reached Foundation Establishment forty or fifty years ago and also possessed three spiritual roots, but the bottleneck to the Foundation Establishment middle stage had left him unable to advance an inch.
A trace of desolation flashed through his eyes as he transmitted his voice. He seemed to have surrendered to fate, knowing he had no hope of reaching the Golden Core realm, and envied Liu Yu for attaining such cultivation at so young an age.
But Yao Yunsong was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, after all, and quickly reined in his emotions. Whatever else happened, he would secure the spoils before him first.
Foundation Establishment early-stage cultivators could fly roughly three hundred li in a two-hour period. With one fleeing ahead and two pursuing behind, half a quarter-hour passed in a flash, and the three escape lights had already traveled more than twenty li.
The Hehuan Sect cultivator was the one who had assisted the alluring female cultivator in controlling the formation. When it broke, he too had suffered its backlash and sustained considerable injuries. These somewhat impaired his