"Die-!"
As a string of Xing'ers leaped down, blasting crater after crater into the ground, Yue Wen suddenly heard streaks of light approaching from behind.
A sweep of his Divine Sense revealed Hu Yunting and the other two flying along the path he had cleared.
"These people have no shame!" Xing'er sensed them too and cursed.
"How cunning." Qi Dian, beneath his feet, also glanced back. "Almost a quarter as cunning as Brother Yue."
"..." Yue Wen did not know whether that counted as praise or something else. For a moment, he fell silent.
Xing'er said, "Why don't we just stop and fight them? At this rate, we're clearing the path while they reap all the benefits. When we're almost at the finish, they'll put on a burst of speed, and our cultivation will be exhausted."
"Attacking them outright wouldn't be a good idea." Yue Wen first rejected Xing'er's suggestion.
The contest was about who could reach the palace first. Although Hu Yunting's group was taking a shortcut, it was hard to call it cheating. Turning around and attacking them outright would instead give them grounds for complaint.
But Xing'er was right. Maintaining his current state consumed quite a lot of energy. If they followed him all the way to the palace and suddenly accelerated, the three-person Blazing Fire bomber he was piloting really might be overtaken.
Yue Wen was currently using the Sword Heart Resonance Method, Sword-Controlling Technique, Xun Sword True Formula, and Light-Splitting Shadow-Sweeping Sword Art simultaneously. Only his Qi Sea reserves could sustain this state for so long.
Any other late Astral Realm cultivator, even assuming they could control so many Supernatural Powers simultaneously, would have exhausted their Qi Sea long ago from this terrifying expenditure alone.
If he kept expending energy all the way to the