Chapter 1368: Gu Huang’s Escape Prowess
Chapter 1368: Gu Huang’s Escape Prowess
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Translator: CinderTL
Gu Huang had already fled beyond the range of Song Wen’s divine sense.
However, Gu Huang had only just departed, and traces of his spiritual power lingered in the air.
Tracking him by following these lingering traces proved relatively simple for Song Wen.
Perhaps Gu Huang reasoned that the Abyss of Extinction’s constant lightning strikes would obliterate his lingering traces. Instead of fleeing beyond the abyss, he ventured deeper into its depths.
After pursuing him for seven or eight thousand li, Song Wen suddenly realized that Gu Huang’s lingering traces had vanished.
Song Wen scanned his surroundings, his gaze settling on the churning Blackwater below.
Gu Huang had clearly submerged into the Blackwater.
The Blackwater was constantly bombarded by lightning, causing it to churn endlessly. The water itself carried a faint electrical charge, making it exceptionally effective at dispersing lingering traces.
Moreover, the Blackwater’s interference with divine sense made it an ideal refuge for escape.
Yet, every goose leaves a feather, and every breeze leaves a whisper—some trace always remains.
A faint crimson glow flickered in Song Wen’s eyes.
Dreamfloat True Eye!
This technique excelled at tracking even the faintest traces.
After a mere half-breath, Song Wen detected a faint trace about fifty kilometers beneath the surface.
The trace was already fading, on the verge of being swept away by the churning Blackwater.
With a swift movement, Song Wen followed the trace.
He didn’t submerge into the water, but instead raced across its surface.
Gu Huang relied on the Blackwater to conceal his presence and disperse his aura, but Song Wen had no such need. While underwater evasion would ultimately be hindered by the water’s resistance, slightly reducing his escape speed.
As time passed, the underwater trail grew increasingly distinct, indicating that Song Wen was closing in on Gu Huang.
After pursuing him for over a hundred thousand miles, with the trail’s direction shifting several times, the shadow void in Song Wen’s sea of consciousness suddenly spoke.
"Master, I’ve located Gu Huang. He’s just over three hundred miles ahead."
As they ventured deeper into the Abyss of Extinction, Song Wen and the shadow void’s divine sense were intermittently disrupted by the thunderous lightning that crashed around them, causing their perception range to fluctuate wildly.
A sharp glint flashed in Song Wen’s eyes. He had finally caught up.
The shadow void’s perception range was slightly greater than his own, but the difference was marginal.
As for the Gu insects, after Song Wen advanced to the Body Integration Stage, their ability to extend his divine sense had become negligible, rendering them almost useless.
"Once this matter is resolved, I must find a way to advance the shadow void’s cultivation realm."
The shadow void had been stuck at the mid-seventh-tier for decades. During this time, Song Wen had fed it considerable amounts of Soul Source Essence, yet it had stubbornly refused to advance.
As Song Wen pondered this, Gu Huang’s silhouette finally materialized within his perception range.
Gu Huang, in turn, detected the streak of lightning streaking across the water’s surface.
A flicker of panic flashed in his eyes.
He seemed astonished that Gou Jun had tracked him this far!
At that moment, Gou Jun’s voice, amplified by spiritual power, rang clearly in his ears.
"Gu Huang, you can’t escape! It’s time to settle the score between us."
Hearing this, the panic in Gu Huang’s eyes vanished, replaced by a fierce resolve.
"Gou Jun! It’s you again! Why are you always haunting me? I can’t escape you anywhere!" Gu Huang ground his teeth, his voice booming like thunder from the Nine Heavens. His eyes blazed with murderous intent, like a wounded beast preparing for a final, desperate strike.
"Don’t think you’ve already won. The outcome is far from certain!"
Before the words had even left his lips, Gu Huang burst from the water’s surface.
Instantly, a flying sword materialized before him. Its cold, gleaming blade radiated Sword Qi, streaking across the sky like a meteor, carrying an unstoppable momentum as it hurtled toward Song Wen.
Song Wen’s eyes abruptly turned a demonic crimson, and two scarlet beams of blood-red light shot forth from his pupils.
The crimson beams pierced the air, intercepting the flying sword.
Their collision produced neither a deafening roar nor a violent energy surge. Instead, the flying sword effortlessly pierced through the blood-red light, continuing its advance toward Song Wen.
Yet the sword’s spiritual light dimmed, its momentum waned, and it began to waver in the air, as if on the verge of collapse.
Behind Song Wen, his Thunder Wings unfurled with a furious crackle. Two silver-white lightning serpents erupted from the wings, their blinding electric light instantly engulfing the flying sword.
Boom!
Amidst the earth-shattering thunder, the flying sword plummeted from the sky, crashing into the water below.
Song Wen suddenly sensed a strange energy fluctuation emanating from Gu Huang’s direction.
His divine sense probed forward, revealing Gu Huang enveloped in a silver glow. The man’s form was gradually fading, and fragments of silver talismans drifted around him.
"A teleportation talisman?!"
Two more bolts of lightning erupted from the wings on Song Wen’s back, propelling him toward Gu Huang with lightning speed.
But he was too late.
The lightning pierced through the silver glow, shattering only Gu Huang’s afterimage.
"Aren’t teleportation talismans exclusive to the Divine Blood Gate? How did Gu Huang obtain one?" Song Wen’s expression was a mix of surprise and suspicion.
Song Wen lowered his gaze to the still-falling flying sword, a smirk curling his lips.
Gu Huang’s desperation to escape was truly remarkable—he had even abandoned his natal flying sword.
But if he had left behind his natal flying sword, how could he possibly escape?
Song Wen summoned the sword to his side and activated the Ten Thousand Mile Breath Tracking Technique.
A wisp of green smoke soon emerged from the sword.
Following the smoke’s direction, Song Wen abruptly turned and gave chase.
Gu Huang’s escape route led back along the path they had taken.
After pursuing him for less than fifty thousand li, the green smoke ceased to shift direction, indicating that Gu Huang was nearby.
Song Wen scanned the surroundings using the lightning descending from the sky, then glanced up at the dark clouds overhead. With a sudden movement, he plunged into the water.
With no one around and the high-altitude thunderclouds posing a deadly threat, Gu Huang had no choice but to hide underwater.
Song Wen dove over two hundred miles deep, reaching the seabed.
The seabed was rugged and uneven, strewn with jagged rocks and deep trenches, with caves of varying sizes scattered throughout.
"Gu Huang, you’d better be well-hidden!" Song Wen sneered, his body erupting in blinding thunderlight.
Hundreds of silver-white lightning serpents erupted from the wings on his back, striking the seabed below.
The hardened rock layers shattered like thin paper.
Jagged rocks exploded like fireworks, stirring up layers of murky turbulence in the water.
The thunderlight surged onward, spreading wildly across the seabed like a silver dragon.
Mud and lightning erupted skyward, turning the waters within hundreds of miles into a murky maelstrom.
Suddenly, Song Wen’s eyes lit up.
Deep within a seabed cave, the thunderlight had reached an invisible barrier and been blocked.
Spreading his wings, Song Wen unleashed an endless torrent of thunderlight into the cave like a roaring silver dragon.
The instant the silver dragon touched the barrier, it detonated in a blinding flash, bathing the surroundings in silver-white light.
When the thunderlight dissipated, a massive crater lay before Song Wen.
At the bottom of the crater stood an intact formation barrier.
Beneath the barrier, Gu Huang glared at Song Wen, his expression a mix of shock and fury.
"Gou Jun, are you truly determined to wipe me out completely?"
(End of the Chapter)
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