Chapter 1140 - 1240: Attempting to Escape

Everyone understood this matter in their hearts.

After all, this kind of thing happened more than just once or twice.

At this moment, Taichu Zhenren flashed behind the wall-escaping creature again. However, just as Taichu Zhenren prepared to cut it with the sword, she suddenly realized that the creature in front of her was merely a phantom, and the real creature appeared far away and was speeding off into the distance.

"Trying to escape?"

Seeing the escaping back of the wall-escaping creature, Taichu Zhenren felt a surge of annoyance. Despite her vigilance, the creature still managed to escape, making her quite dissatisfied.

After all, many precautions were made to prevent the creature's escape, yet a momentary oversight allowed it to flee.

Taichu Zhenren quickly formed a few spells and let the Xiaoyao Sword hover aside, then fiercely slapped her hands onto the ground.

"Halt at the cliff!"

As Taichu Zhenren's words fell, the land ahead of the wall-escaping creature suddenly rose more than a hundred meters high. Although Ye Tianfan couldn't ascertain the thickness, it seemed to be quite substantial. The creature plunged into the suddenly elevated land and quickly burrowed out, attempting to find another escape route.

When the creature emerged from the earth and tried to flee sideways, it found no other direction to escape, as the length of the elevation stretched beyond what Ye Tianfan could see.

Even from a distance, Ye Tianfan couldn't see the end, so it was clear the wall-escaping creature also couldn't see it. Moreover, escaping over the top was nearly impossible due to its hundred-meter height, which Taichu Zhenren wouldn't allow.

Turning around, the creature's eyes filled with hatred, knowing it had no chance of escaping since Taichu Zhenren had blocked all its paths. The creature had to confront head-on, aware that the outcome would likely be its own demise when facing Ying Pengying. Yet if it didn't deal with Taichu Zhenren, the creature would be left with only a silent wait for death.

Moreover, under the illumination of the white light emitted from the Xiaoyao Sword, the creature couldn't self-destruct, as it sensed doing so under the white light would lead to being completely slain without a chance of resurrection.

That's why the creature continuously tried to flee rather than opting for immediate self-destruction, which would allow resurrection randomly outside the wall; though it could choose nearby resurrection, too.

But the creature found no other choice, only able to attempt escape. If it fell into Taichu Zhenren's hands, it could only choose death.

At this moment, the wall-escaping creature was going all in, as escape was impossible. It could only see whether it could kill Taichu Zhenren first or be killed by her.

Just as Taichu Zhenren prepared to charge at the creature, it began rushing towards her direction.

Its hands started emitting dense Demonic Qi and Evil Qi, aware it couldn't casually touch Taichu Zhenren.

To be precise, the creature couldn't carelessly touch the Xiaoyao Sword in Taichu Zhenren's hands.

The white glow emitted from the Xiaoyao Sword alone posed a grave threat to the creature; touching it could result in immediate disintegration of the contact area.

Although the creature had wrapped its hands in dense negative energy, it failed to realize the situation was more severe than imagined.

Ye Tianfan noticed the creature rushing towards Taichu Zhenren, while Taichu Zhenren also dashed towards it, signifying the imminent outbreak of battle.

No, the more fitting description would be that the conflict was about to erupt imminently.

The creature appeared in front of Taichu Zhenren, hastily adjusting its position to avoid being slain by her oncoming strike.

As it neared Taichu Zhenren, it flashed to her right front, then leapt to her right rear when it reappeared.

Sensing the creature's presence at her right rear, Taichu Zhenren quickly turned and fiercely stabbed at it with the Xiaoyao Sword.

The creature felt the approaching Xiaoyao Sword and hurriedly stepped aside, leaping to the distance.

Even though the creature successfully evaded the strike, the sword's white light still severely harmed it.

Ye Tianfan didn't see the process clearly; upon focusing, he saw the creature's face corroded down to the bone like it had been splashed with acid, its appearance nearly unrecognizable.

Ye Tianfan even saw dense negative energy seeping from the creature's face—a more fitting term is leaking rather than dispersing.

By then, the creature appeared like a punctured water balloon, leaking all its contents.

Ye Tianfan promptly converted the leaking Demonic Qi and Evil Qi into ordinary Spiritual Power, visibly noticing the creature shrinking in size.

Ye Tianfan also clearly felt the creature's aura weakening rapidly.

Understanding that although the Xiaoyao Sword hadn't directly injured the creature, it had indirectly inflicted severe harm.

Finally, Ye Tianfan genuinely breathed a sigh of relief and slightly recovered, as the earlier tension due to high Control Power demand had kept him anxious.

However, Ye Tianfan felt relatively relaxed now, given his current mental state was far more at ease than before.