A day later, Xiao Yu was flying through the air, his face pale. He had already fled more than twenty thousand li, yet instead of widening the gap between himself and the Level Eight Demon Beast, he had let it draw closer. Now, it was only forty li behind him.
Feeling the scant magic power left in his body and the searing pain in his meridians, Xiao Yu's heart sank to rock bottom. At this rate, it would catch up with him before long.
If it caught him, he certainly would not last more than a few exchanges. Although the Nine Palaces Primordial Sword Formation was powerful, he was only at the early stage and could control just eighteen Golden Bamboo Divine Thunder Swords. That was nowhere near enough to deal with a Level Eight Demon Beast.
If only I had reached late Core Formation, I wouldn't need to fear it at all. Alas, that's nothing more than wishful thinking.
The Gold-Eating Insects had yet to evolve to the stage just before the Mature Form. They were more than enough to deal with Core Formation cultivators, but Xiao Yu had no confidence in their ability to deal with this beast, whose strength rivaled a Nascent Soul cultivator's. If he could avoid a fight to the death, he would.
But of all his means of escape, Bloodshadow Escape was the only one he had yet to use.
Although he had learned Bloodshadow Escape and could use it, the secret art had a flaw.
For one thing, his current cultivation was insufficient to perform the enhanced version of Bloodshadow Escape. Given the blood essence and magic power it required, he would probably have to reach the Nascent Soul stage before he could use it. Even forcing its activation would require late Core