Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 603: Absolute Kill Strike!
A voice filled with jealousy and madness suddenly echoed in the silent mountain forest, startling the demonic cultivators and demonic beasts who were on guard above and below.
"What?!"
"Who is it?!"
The third-stage Fire Sparrow let out a long cry, expressing its shock and anger in demonic language. Following the gaze of the golden core female cultivator, it instantly locked onto the illusion left by the black-bearded male cultivator.
Whether it was the fluctuations of magical power or the aura of spiritual pressure, everything felt just like a real person.
However, upon closer inspection, this demon soon discovered a flaw.
When the incident occurred and all the cultivators had stopped moving, the illusion seemed to feel nothing and continued to advance along its previous trajectory, its movements mechanical and dull.
Upon careful observation, the Fire Sparrow immediately sensed something was wrong.
It quickly unleashed a crimson demonic power, which directly penetrated the illusion left by the black-bearded male cultivator, feeling no contact with flesh at all.
"Find him!!"
With a command from the third-stage Fire Sparrow, both the demonic cultivators and the demonic beasts immediately sprang into action.
"Boom boom boom!!"
Trees were toppled one after another, and spells rained down upon the ground, turning the area within ten miles upside down.
They attempted to use this method to force the black-bearded male cultivator into the open.
"Bang bang bang!"
The booming of spells echoed across the area, and the once peaceful forest was instantly filled with rising dust.
While bombarding the ground with fireballs, the Fire Sparrow used its spiritual consciousness and spiritual perception to carefully sense the fleeing method of the black-bearded male cultivator, concluding that it was most likely using "earth escape" or "wood escape."
Moreover, to evade their probing, the speed would inevitably not be too fast, so as not to cause significant fluctuations in spiritual energy that could give away its location.
Thus, there was a high probability that he had not gone far and was still within a radius of twenty or thirty miles.
Its judgment was correct; the black-bearded male cultivator was indeed using a combination of "earth escape" and "wood escape," slowly distancing himself from the escort squad.
Caught off guard by the quick report from the cultivators, he hadn't managed to go far.
After only escaping seventeen miles, he was forced to halt his advance due to the commotion he had caused among the demonic cultivators.
With the demonic cultivators and demonic beasts alerted, any slight movement would be detected, so he had to hold back for the time being.
"Bitch!!"
The black-bearded male cultivator cursed the golden core female cultivator in his heart but was helpless, only able to avoid the heat.
At his realm in the late golden core stage, with a true magical treasure still in hand, he was not particularly afraid of the three demonic cultivators.
At this moment, considering the worst-case scenario, he was already contemplating whether to escape.
"With my speed, shaking off those two third-stage initial phase demonic cultivators would be no problem."
"But escaping from that Fire Sparrow might be a bit difficult."
"Perhaps I could..."
Frowning in thought, the black-bearded male cultivator considered whether to lead the demonic cultivators to the rendezvous point and work with the contact cultivator to slay the demonic cultivators.
"Swoosh swoosh!"
But before he could make a decision, a massive stone half a zhang in size fell directly towards his hiding spot.
With no choice, the black-bearded male cultivator could only dodge.
At the speed of a third-stage demonic cultivator, it only took a few breaths to search back and forth across a ten-mile radius.
Just as the Fire Sparrow was about to unleash its fury, it suddenly sensed a subtle wave of spiritual energy.
"Hmm?"
In an instant, the demon's spiritual consciousness swept toward the source of the spiritual energy fluctuation, but still found nothing.