Knowing danger might be imminent, Li Yan still made his move. This was his gamble. He already felt he had pursued them a considerable distance, and the thing he feared most might appear ahead at any moment.
Yet Li Yan still took the risk, because he was already inside the underground cavern. Even if he turned around and fled now, the person escaping ahead might find reinforcements in the next instant.
If a Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator made a move, he would have no hope of escaping. As things stood, though, the outcome was fairly good—he had not seen any cultivators or a passage exit.
Li Yan also did not know how far the commotion here could travel through the underground cavern. The noise he had just caused was no small matter; it had seemed as though the entire cavern were shaking...
At a spot on the surface within the stone forest, amid three enormous boulders arranged in a concave formation, a shadow flashed, and Li Yan suddenly appeared aboveground with someone in hand.
The instant he appeared, his body turned like the wind toward one side and flashed behind the three boulders. Even under such tremendous gravity, the entire movement flowed as smoothly as drifting clouds and running water.
Li Yan's chest heaved violently. The person he had been carrying had already vanished. He pressed himself against the back of a giant boulder, his divine sense long since spreading in every direction.
He had used nearly ninety-five percent of his strength to retreat just now, allowing himself a certain buffer to cast his escape technique as he flew out of the cavern entrance.
During his return, Li Yan had had no time to observe behind him. Only at the instant his feet touched the ground did the tightly suspended