Fifty li, seventy li, a hundred li...
Only when Liu Yu vanished completely from their divine sense did the three Golden Guards abandon the pursuit.
In fact, once the distance widened to roughly seventy li, their attacks had already lost most of their power by the time they reached him, making them scarcely a threat.
Still, having arrived with such fanfare and ferocity, only to let the "ringleader" escape, was rather hard to justify.
They had to at least look as though they had done their utmost, so they could find an excuse afterward.
For that very reason, the three Golden Guards pursued him until he left the range of their divine sense entirely.
As for the Spirit Ship following behind, although its combat strength truly reached the third-tier late stage, its maneuverability ultimately fell short of cultivators at the same tier.
Moreover, both the Golden Guards and Liu Yu flew far faster than their peers.
Thus, the Spirit Ship, as enormous as a small mountain, could only trail far behind, unable to contribute much to a frontal engagement.
Perhaps its greater usefulness lay in providing the three men with temporary shelter should anything unexpected occur.
After all, to compensate for its limited maneuverability, the Spirit Ship possessed formidable defenses. It was practically a mobile immortal city, capable of providing excellent protection at a critical moment.
If something went wrong, they could also retreat to the Spirit Ship and regroup.
Meanwhile, upon sensing that the divine sense locked onto him had vanished, Liu Yu immediately activated the Spirit-Concealing Art to suppress his aura and erected a Divine Sense Wall to block divine sense scans.
As he activated several secret arts in succession, he and Tian Xiaoyu vanished into thin air.
All these various secret arts merely concealed one's existence on