Outside that market town, the avatar was attacked in an instant by a man and a beast. They made hardly any attempt to conceal themselves; they simply intended to seize it by force.
The instant Li Yan's avatar sensed mortal danger, the spirit beast used a technique to freeze its body in place.
That brief instant alone was enough for the other side to kill it.
Moreover, that avatar possessed only mid-stage Spirit Transformation strength. It instantly turned into specks of starlight and scattered away, leaving the man and beast momentarily stunned.
When Li Yan saw that scene from nearby, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat. Then, together with the other cultivators around the market town, he scattered in all directions.
But what alarmed Li Yan was that after fleeing less than fifty thousand li, he sensed someone pursuing him from behind. Two strands of Divine Sense continuously checked one cultivator after another.
Li Yan had no idea how they had tracked him in this direction. Only after continuing his flight for some time and calming himself to think carefully did he deduce that it was likely some innate divine ability of that spirit beast.
Perhaps it had used the spiritual power or Divine Sense scattered when they destroyed his avatar to find his aura.
Facing such a man and beast, how could Li Yan be their match? He could only keep fleeing. Fortunately, his return route had long been planned out by Martial Uncle Ning Ke, and he had escaped ahead of them.
This allowed him, during his subsequent escape, to repeatedly rely on long-distance teleportation arrays. Yet the other side remained relentlessly on his heels.
Along the way, Li Yan employed every sort of method, constantly laying traps. Before long, however, they would still trace him