Chapter 552: The Great Life-and-Death Escape

WHOOSH!

Li Yang flew through the void at top speed, his power fully unleashed.

His face was grim.

Soul Ink wore a similar expression.

“Li Yang, kid, fly east!”

“Change directions! Fly south!”

Soul Ink instructed him nonstop.

As a master, the range of his soul sense far surpassed that of an Emperor. He could feel the Yingjiu Emperor rapidly approaching.

The Emperor seemed to be moving aimlessly, but his speed was immense, allowing him to search vast areas in moments.

His search speed was incalculably faster than Li Yang’s own flight.

“This is bad, Li Yang, kid. You’re too slow,” Soul Ink said grimly. “At this rate, that Emperor from the Demon Race will catch you sooner or later.”

“Take the fruit that instantly boosts your power!”

It was like Li Yang was an ordinary person walking across a vast plaza.

Meanwhile, someone else was driving a car across the same plaza.

Li Yang knew the car’s exact location and was constantly trying to evade it.

But the car was so fast that even while driving aimlessly, it was bound to run into Li Yang eventually!

Speed could completely compensate for not having a map.

Hearing this, Li Yang nodded immediately. “Alright.”

He clenched his right fist, and a Spirit Fruit materialized in his palm.

Spirit Fruits that provided an explosive power boost existed for every realm, the Divine Realm included. However, those that could strengthen a Deity were so expensive that most Deities couldn’t afford them.

When Li Yang had left the Human Race’s Eternal Saint Hall, he never imagined his strength would advance so much in such a short time. Therefore, the power-boosting fruits he had then were no longer of much use to him now.

However, Li Yang had previously killed over a hundred Deities from the Alien Races. All of them carried treasures, including fruits that provided a surge of power!

With Li Yang’s foundation as a Four-Element Deity, only two of the Spirit Fruits from all those hundred-plus Deities combined were potent enough to give him a significant boost. He had set them aside specifically for life-threatening situations.

BOOM!

As he swallowed the Spirit Fruit, a torrent of violent energy instantly surged through his body!

Under its influence, Li Yang felt his power skyrocket!

“Red Sky Combat Boots!”

Without hesitation, Li Yang pushed the power of the Red Sky Combat Boots to their absolute limit!

Previously, Li Yang could only activate a tiny fraction of the High-Level Saint Artifact’s power. But the stronger the user, the more power they could draw from it!

Riding the surge of power from the Spirit Fruit, Li Yang’s overall speed increased dramatically.

Now, Li Yang was relying entirely on the Sacred Artifact, the Red Sky Combat Boots, to escape with his life.

His figure flickered through the void as he constantly changed direction based on Soul Ink’s guidance.

The goal was to keep veering away from the Demon Race Emperor’s path.

A little over ten minutes later, the Spirit Fruit’s effect wore off, and a wave of weakness washed over Li Yang.

Fruits that provided a sudden power boost were useful, but nearly all came with side effects. This was why many powerful individuals saved them as a last resort.

If the side effects kicked in before you had defeated your enemy or escaped their grasp, you would be a sitting duck.

“Li Yang, kid, take the other one! That Demon Race Emperor is still within my detection range!”

Soul Ink noticed Li Yang’s weakened state and urged him on grimly.

Even after fleeing for more than ten minutes with full knowledge of the Demon Race Emperor’s position, Li Yang still hadn’t managed to shake him. It was a testament to how terrifyingly fast the Emperor was!

“Alright!”

Li Yang nodded and, without hesitation, swallowed the second power-boosting fruit.

This time, it wasn’t until the fruit’s effects were halfway gone that the Demon Race Emperor finally moved out of the range of Soul Ink’s soul sense.

But Li Yang kept increasing the distance.

Even after the Yingjiu Emperor was completely out of range, Li Yang didn’t stop, continuing to fly farther and farther away.

…

An hour passed by in a flash.

BOOM!

In the void, a terrifying aura pulsed from a giant hawk that was over ten thousand meters long.

RUMBLE!

The very fabric of space shattered, unable to withstand the hawk’s power.

“Damn it! What kind of detection treasure does that human, Leimu, have? How did he manage to shake me?”

The Yingjiu Emperor’s face was incredibly dark. He had been searching nonstop for an hour but hadn’t found the slightest trace of the human, Leimu. It was as if the man didn’t even exist.

WHOOSH!

The giant hawk’s figure continued to streak through the void, crossing vast distances in an instant like a mythical Kun Peng.

The Yingjiu Emperor refused to give up, continuing his search for another hour.

But after that hour, he still hadn’t found any sign of Li Yang, and his expression grew even darker.

“Damned human!”

His soul couldn’t detect Li Yang, so he had no idea which direction the man had fled.

And yet, he was a mighty Emperor! His speed was thousands, even tens of thousands of times faster than Li Yang’s!

And still, he couldn’t find him!

It was an absolute disgrace!

…

Meanwhile, Li Yang flew for an entire day before finally coming to a stop.

“I’m safe.” Li Yang finally let out a sigh of relief.

It was the first time he’d ever felt what a true life-or-death escape was like.

The ethereal figure of Soul Ink appeared before him, arms crossed. He looked at Li Yang and said, “So, Li Yang, kid, how’d it feel?”

At his words, Li Yang gave a wry smile. “Soul Ink, that’s not funny.”

Even now, his heart was racing, and a trace of lingering fear remained.

He and Soul Ink had just agreed that if the Demon Race Emperor was about to catch up and escape became impossible, Li Yang would self-destruct and hide his treasures.

It was the only way to ensure a complete getaway.

Otherwise, if the Demon Race Emperor caught him, he could be revived after death, but all the treasures on his person would be lost.

If an ordinary Deity died, that would be the end of it. But Li Yang was carrying two Sacred Artifacts and hundreds of Divine Artifacts!

The loss from his death would be unimaginable!

Hearing Li Yang, Soul Ink chuckled. “So, Li Yang, kid, you feel what a real life-or-death crisis is like now? Even I wasn’t sure you’d get away. I’d say the probability of escape was only fifty percent. You got pretty lucky this time.”

Although Soul Ink was a master whose soul sense far out-ranged any Emperor’s, allowing him to detect the Yingjiu Emperor from an immense distance, his soul sense was his only major advantage. The one who actually had to do the fleeing was Li Yang.

Li Yang only had the power of a Deity, and his speed was no match for an Emperor’s.

As luck would have it, the Demon Race Emperor had rapidly closed in on Li Yang during his search. If Li Yang had entered the Emperor’s soul detection range, escape would have been impossible!

“So, never get too confident. On the Slaughter Battlefield, a crisis can strike at any moment,” Soul Ink said lightly.

“Even with the help of my soul sense, such dangers can’t always be avoided.”