Red Lady immediately recognized the Cloud-Treading Boots on Ye Han's feet. His cultivation confirmed it: this fellow was the cultivator she had met before, the one who had humiliated her!
Now he had snatched her prey away right before her eyes. How could she possibly let Ye Han go?
Slapping a Tailwind Talisman onto herself, Red Lady suddenly accelerated, racing after Ye Han like a ghost.
With Ye Chunfeng slung over his shoulder, Ye Han sprinted forward at full speed. He glanced behind him and saw Red Lady closing in even faster than he could run.
Red Lady must have used a Tailwind Talisman too. How else could she be chasing me so quickly?
Last time, she had let Ye Han escape because she had assumed a fellow at the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Realm could neither resist her charms nor slip out of her grasp.
Instead, Ye Han had ignored her entirely and fled without a word. Her brief hesitation had given him enough time to reach the patrol area around Azure Cloud City.
Most importantly, Red Lady had never expected a fellow at the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Realm to possess a pair of speed-enhancing treasure boots.
By the time she gave chase, Ye Han had needed only a short while to reach the area patrolled by Azure Cloud City's cultivators. Within that area, even Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators did not dare attack other cultivators lightly.
Doing so violated Azure Cloud City's rules and would get her placed on its wanted list.
Once she was wanted, she could forget about returning to Azure Cloud City. People would hunt her everywhere. After all, the bounty was considerable, and they could openly kill her and seize her treasures.
Now that she had encountered Ye Han again,