From behind, within the clouds, a bird with four wings covered in flames burst into the clouds. The Fire Sparrow radiated light in all directions, dissipating the cloud qi miles away.
Though this Fire Sparrow was not longer than twenty or so zhang, around seventy to eighty meters, its speed was incredibly fast. With a slight movement of its four wings, light from the flames immediately appeared, and with wind assisting fire, it could dash miles in an instant, rapidly closing in on Ye Zhen like lightning.
Ye Zhen roughly recognized this bird as the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird, a highly formidable demon beast that favored fire and had a grade as high as Heavenly Level Middle Grade.
This Four-Winged Flame Light Bird had been extinct in the Black Dragon Domain for hundreds of years, and Ye Zhen had only seen it in a Demon Beast Atlas that circulated within the Black Dragon Domain. Ye Zhen had not expected to encounter this long-extinct demon beast in the True Spirit Domain.
But that was not the most important thing!
The most important thing was that there was a person standing on the back of the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird, wearing a robe of the Longevity Sect, standing proud like a flagpole on top of the Fire Sparrow, his gaze firmly locked on Ye Zhen.
Seeing Ye Zhen turn his head, he suddenly pointed at Ye Zhen, his killing intent gushing towards him like a tide, even across such a vast distance.
What was more dire was that the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird was extremely fast, quickly reducing the distance between itself and Ye Zhen.
This person was Yang Zhengxi, the helm master of the Longevity Sect’s Xining branch, who had come to pursue and kill Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen’s brows suddenly furrowed tightly. Estimating the speed of the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird, its speed was definitely over twelve thousand li per hour, now nearly matching that of Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten boosted by the War Soul Blood Banner.
Moreover, it seemed that this speed was not the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird’s limit. According to the demon beast atlas, this Four-Winged Flame Light Bird excels in fire and speed, and its talent in speed might even be more formidable than that of Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten.
It seemed it would be somewhat difficult to shake off.
Despite these thoughts, Ye Zhen immediately activated the War Soul Blood Banner. A beam of blood light flew out from the Demon Soul Hall and fused into the body of Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten.
Seeing the tight frown on Ye Zhen’s face, Yang Zhengxi following closely behind burst into cold laughter and directly sent a Divine Soul Telecommunication, "How so, scared now after killing a member of my Longevity Sect?
It’s too late!
Today, I will make you regret coming to this world, daring to kill a protector elder of my Longevity Sect, truly seeking death!"
Whoosh!
Almost the moment Yang Zhengxi’s Divine Soul Telecommunication reached him, Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten suddenly flapped its meaty wings, abruptly accelerating. This sudden burst of speed even caused Ye Zhen, who was riding on it, to lean backward.
This showed just how intense the acceleration action of Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten was!
Behind them, watching Ye Zhen vanish again into the limitless sea of clouds, Yang Zhengxi stiffened momentarily, then suddenly burst into a rage. The Beast-Control Spirit Talisman in his hand flashed continuously while the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird emitted a mournful scream. Fires fiercely blazed around its body, and as the air burned with a sizzling sound, its speed surged again!
An intense high-speed chase between the tiger and the bird unfolded high in the sky.
One used boundless Cloud Qi, which seemed to collectively gather like a giant cloud wing beside it, bursting miles forward with each movement.
The other used Flame Light Fire Wings, dispersing ten thousand li of cloud qi with a flap, its speed surpassing lightning.
This chase lasted just over one hour, and Ye Zhen’s forehead was already covered in cold sweat.
It wasn’t that the Cloud Winged Tiger King was about to be caught; on the contrary, it was still leading far ahead, pulling the distance between them even farther.
From an initial discovery of over thirty li, the gap had increased to now over sixty li. From the clouds alone, Yang Zhengxi had been left far behind, clearly leading by a great margin.
But under the state of Sword Heart Enlightenment and utmost tranquility, Ye Zhen could remotely sense the surging fiery energy far away.
That was the energy ripple emitted by the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird during its high-speed flight. In other words, Yang Zhengxi was still tenaciously on Ye Zhen’s trail.
Even as Ye Zhen let the Cloud Winged Tiger King gather boundless sea of clouds and changed directions multiple times, he still couldn’t shake off Yang Zhengxi.
If things continued this way, ultimately, Ye Zhen’s Cloud Winged Tiger King would eventually elude Yang Zhengxi, who was riding the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird.
But Ye Zhen knew his own circumstances.
The main reason the Cloud Winged Tiger King, with its Upper-grade Earth Level Cultivation, had managed to leave the Heavenly Level Middle Grade Four-Winged Flame Light Bird far behind was the boost from the War Soul Blood Banner.
With the War Soul Blood Banner’s boost, the speed of the Cloud Winged Tiger King doubled, allowing it to outrun the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird.
But the problem was that the Cloud Winged Tiger King couldn’t maintain this state for long!
This extreme speed under the boost of the War Soul Blood Banner caused immense strain on the Cloud Winged Tiger King, and even if Ye Zhen kept feeding it Spirit Crystals and Demon Cores, the Cloud Winged Tiger King could only maintain this extreme speed for two hours.
And the Level 5 boost from the War Soul Blood Banner could only last for two hours. Although Ye Zhen could boost it again after that, the effect of the War Soul Blood Banner’s boost would significantly weaken.
Ye Zhen didn’t know how long the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird could maintain this extreme state, but he could be sure, the Heavenly Level Middle Grade Four-Winged Flame Light Bird would definitely last longer than the Upper-grade Earth Level Cloud Winged Tiger King.
Anxious and apprehensive, Yang Zhengxi on the back of the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird was also furiously raging, continuously activating the Spirit Talisman in his hand, causing the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird to emit one cry after another. However, under Yang Zhengxi’s urging, its speed accelerated even more.
This is the biggest difference between a demon servant raised from childhood through blood sacrifice and one captured when grown and controlled using a Beast Taming Spirit Talisman.
A demon servant raised through blood sacrifice communicates perfectly with its master’s intentions, needing only a single command from its owner to exert all its strength in a flight, their relationship as close as brothers.
A demon beast caught and used as a mount after it had grown is purely a slave beast, with the Beast Taming Spirit Talisman specifically containing a restriction for torturing the demon beast, used to control those that do not obey.
If you want a demon beast to give its all, the owner must oppress it continuously!
Under successive restrictions and beatings, the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird finally revealed its extreme speed!
This extreme speed was almost comparable to the speed of the Cloud Winged Tiger King enhanced by the War Soul Blood Banner; however, it was visible that the flame light around the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird was rapidly depleting.
In the blink of an eye, two hours passed in a flash.
Sensing the relentlessly pursuing Four-Winged Flame Light Bird behind him, Ye Zhen decisively ordered the Cloud Winged Tiger King to slow down and conserve strength.
If after one hour the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten’s strength was completely exhausted, then Ye Zhen would truly have no one to call for help, neither heaven nor earth would respond!
While ordering the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten to slow down, Ye Zhen took out the Spirit Map gifted by Deviless Luo Yingzi and swiftly began searching.
Ye Zhen already had a plan for eluding Yang Zhengxi but facing an opponent from the Vein Forging Realm, he thought not only of victory but also of defeat, and Ye Zhen had to be prepared for both possibilities!
Soon, Ye Zhen found the information he needed, his only prayer being that the Spirit Map gifted by Luo Yingzi did not have too great a margin of error.
"Yang Zhengxi, since you relentlessly pursue me, I will give you a... huge surprise!" Riding on the back of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten, Ye Zhen suddenly sneered, continuously looking back.
"Unfortunately, I am still too weak. If I had the strength of the Second or Third Stage of the Soul Sea Realm, I would have the confidence to fight hard against Yang Zhengxi. Even if I couldn’t overpower him, escaping would still be viable, not reduced to being chased like this..."
While observing, Ye Zhen sighed regretfully, his Cultivation was simply too low.
However, before he had sighed much, Ye Zhen suddenly scoffed at himself again.
On another note, with Ye Zhen’s age of twenty years, to have achieved the Peak of the Fifth Stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm and possess strength to match a Martial Artist at the Peak of the Fifth Stage of the Soul Sea Realm, what more could he desire?
Not to mention the Black Dragon Domain, even within the True Spirit Domain, someone like Yang Zhengxi pursuing him relentlessly was not much better than Ye Zhen at a similar age.
Even if their Cultivation was higher than Ye Zhen’s, their strength definitely wouldn’t surpass Ye Zhen’s, he had confidence in this.
What Ye Zhen truly lacked now was time!
Ye Zhen had made up his mind, just waiting to escape this time and then he would head to the largest Martial Cities within the True Spirit Domain, to find the most suitable methods to break through to the Soul Sea Realm quickly and enhance his strength rapidly.
"Ye, where do you think you can run to this time? Your mount has been overly spurred by you, afraid it might not hold up, right?" Suddenly, Yang Zhengxi’s voice boomed like thunder.
Yang Zhengxi was also remarkable, still thirty li away, yet capable of sending his roaring voice right to Ye Zhen’s ears, this skill of focusing sound into a thread was quite extraordinary.
"Run?" A sneer flashed across Ye Zhen’s lips, but he did not respond.
Instead, with a slight movement of his Divine Sense, he caused the body of the Cloud Winged Tiger King to enlarge slightly.
Then, Ye Zhen took off the Demon Soul Hall he wore on his chest and placed it on the exceedingly broad back of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten.
As his Divine Sense moved, the Demon Soul Hall started expanding rapidly, instantly transforming into the size of a room, and the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten timely gathered a vast amount of Cloud Qi to completely cover the expanding Demon Soul Hall.
The cover board above the entrance of the Demon Soul Hall slowly retracted, revealing a pitch-black circular hole, with a dazzling Spirit Arc faintly visible, charged with Spiritual Power.
Almost the moment the Spirit Energy Cannon was exposed, the speed of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten suddenly drastically dropped, from a speed of over ten thousand li to just over six thousand li per hour!
As the speed of the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten plummeted, Yang Zhengxi, chasing at extreme speed on the Four-Winged Flame Light Bird, rapidly closed in on Ye Zhen.
Almost within two or three breaths, the distance between the two shrank explosively from thirty li to around fifteen li, and Ye Zhen could even see the three long whiskers on Yang Zhengxi’s chin.
Seeing the rapidly approaching Ye Zhen, heavily obscured by Cloud Qi in front, Yang Zhengxi was naturally overjoyed. As soon as the distance was reduced to ten li, he could take action.
Almost simultaneously, as Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense subtly moved deep within the Demon Soul Hall on the Blood Crystal Platform, the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten’s speed dropped sharply again, almost hovering in the air.
At the same time, joy had just surfaced on Yang Zhengxi’s face when his expression froze, his entire face violently twitching!
A dazzling pillar of Spirit Light, like a volcanic eruption, blasted out from the front, and fear instantly filled Yang Zhengxi’s eyes!
"A Spirit Energy Cannon, how is this possible?" Yang Zhengxi roared.
At that very moment, Ye Zhen sighed softly, "This shot, it’s a hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals! But it’s enough of a surprise for you, isn’t it?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets at qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)

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