Above the Firmament.
Not a cloud stretched across the vast sky.
A flickering streak of light flashed past.
It carried a faint hint of panic and haste.
It was Yuan Wenzhi, who had abducted Wang Ba with his Law Power and fled in headlong retreat.
By now, he had long since lost his scholarly elegance. His face looked faintly ashen, and his hair and robes were in utter disarray.
But he paid no attention to any of that. His Divine Sense swept behind him from time to time, his nerves stretched taut.
"Fortunately, no one has chased after me..."
Yet he did not relax in the slightest.
For whenever he relaxed even a little, the horrific state of Zhang Tailai at his death surfaced unbidden in his mind.
It had been too gruesome!
Although they had prepared themselves mentally when they accepted this mission,
Yuan Wenzhi had still never expected such a disastrous ending!
Even his corpse had been dismembered beyond recognition.
He could well imagine that if he were caught, his own end would probably be little better.
Moreover, his injuries made the circulation of his Law Power extremely unstable, greatly reducing the speed at which he controlled his Flying Law Artifact.
If a Gold Core True Person pursued him, they would probably catch him before long.
So he had to escape as quickly as possible.
I can't stay in the Yan Kingdom anymore, but I need to think carefully about how to escape.
According to their original plan, even if the mission failed, the two of them could join forces and escape northeast toward the Qiao Kingdom amid the chaos.
But now that Zhang Tailai had died violently on the spot, that plan was ruined.
*South... Great Chu might already have been alerted... I can't go there... East