Chapter 648 - 348: Three-Way Pursuit

"Wrong, hehe."

Shi Ying seemed to crush an ant effortlessly, indifferent, then continued searching.

"Come out."

An invisible giant hand suddenly descended into the deep forest by the White River banks, capturing a Tier Six Exotic Beast lizard.

Boom——

Shi Ying couldn’t hold back his anger, and the lizard beast was crushed to pieces.

Three breaths later.

"This time, let’s see where you can hide!"

"Hm?!"

"Again, not right?!"

"..."

Shi Ying went from full confidence to losing patience, then from losing patience to a violent outburst, all within two hours.

Two hours may not seem long, but for Chu Ming, it was invaluable.

At this moment, fifty miles away from the battleground, a young man in black was speeding through the sky above the White River Basin, using the Primordial Artifact’s Tunneling Speed.

Chu Ming had fled in the reverse direction a moment before the Black Blade exploded.

However, the Black Blade was already a Tier Seven level Sacrificial Soldier, and although Chu Ming escaped quickly, he was still injured by its self-destruction blast.

"Luckily, there’s the Celestial Cyan Lock Chain..."

He could have been uninjured, but to save some Mutated Black Flame, he only used the newly acquired Celestial Cyan Lock Chain to block the estimated explosion’s power.

He was somewhat overconfident, but fortunately, the injury was not too severe and could recover with a bit of rest.

"The one claiming to be Shi Ying seems to be the one who turned Yiyang Lie into such a person, I wonder who he is..."

After tunneling thirty-five to thirty-six miles, Chu Ming slowed down a bit.

Continuing to control the Elemental Shield Shuttle to fly, he took out a black fragment.

The black fragment was a piece from the Black Blade explosion that he had gathered over ten pieces during his escape.

He took the Black Blade fragments because he found that the Mutated Black Flame seemed to react to these fragments.

He let the Black Flame float in his palm, approaching the Black Blade fragment.

Buzz!

The Black Flame spontaneously flared and devoured the Black Blade fragment.

Chu Ming’s eyes lit up.

Heart Spirit sensing, the Black Flame slightly strengthened.

The Black Blade fragment, like Black Soul Wood, could provide Dark Power to the Black Flame.

"This place is too close to the battleground, better escape from Yiyang Kingdom first."

Chu Ming didn’t want to waste more time in Yiyang Kingdom, he planned to head to Celestial Veil Kingdom, one of the strongest nations in the Ancient Profound Western Continent.

"Celestial Veil Kingdom is in the east of the Ancient Profound Western Continent, with Seven-Star Kingdom and Lingwu Kingdom in between..."

"Better find a hidden place in Seven-Star Kingdom to feed the eleven Black Blade fragments to the Mutated Black Flame, and the two black chain segments also provoke the Mutated Black Flame."

The two black chain segments were chopped down from the bottom of White River earlier, initially focusing only on purification with the Qi Rhythm White Light from the Book and Painting Realm, not summoning the Mutated Black Flame, hence missing the black chain’s function.

"Although I’m still some distance from the Seventh Realm, overall strength now threatens the Seventh Realm..."

After a battle with the mutated Yiyang Lie, Chu Ming roughly confirmed his own strength.

"Then, see if I can acquire the True Intent Soldier Embryo from the Seventh Realm powerhouse Xing Man in Seven-Star Kingdom."

"..."

After Chu Ming escaped from Yiyang Kingdom, in the original battleground of the White River Basin, someone forcibly bombed a cliff and precipice.

The one who did this was Shi Ying, the Celestial Veil Kingdom expert, who had searched the battlefield unsuccessfully for a day and a night, thus raging.

However, this seeming fury was merely a facade.

A closer look beneath the White River Basin showed the Mysterious Nether Swallowing Chain has vanished, draining Yiyang Kingdom’s power and fortune.

Such destruction was merely Shi Ying’s way of eradicating traces of the submerged Mysterious Nether Swallowing Chain.

Shortly after Shi Ying left, two people dressed in Heavenly Inquiry Tower attire arrived in Yiyang Kingdom.

The two were Seventh Realm powerhouses, Xux Guang and Xux Yuan, sent by Elder Lie Guanhai of Yi Yang, to investigate the Yiyang Sub-Branch robbery and Wu Dai’s death.

"This place seems to have seen a battle not long ago, and under White River’s waters, there’s evident fault lines, from the residual aura, at least Seventh Realm and stronger than us."

Xux Guang and Xux Yuan stood side by side, looking at the White River below with slightly furrowed brows.

"The aura and destruction here remind me of one person..." Xux Guang’s face showed contemplation.

"Shi Ying under Duke An of Celestial Veil Kingdom." Xux Yuan said in a deep voice, "Before we left, the elder told me Celestial Veil Kingdom is up to something."

"Shi Ying under Duke An?" Xux Guang’s expression was grave, "We better leave quickly; if it’s indeed Shi Ying, even our joint efforts might fail to survive, no matter what Shi Ying does, it’s beyond our concern."

"Hmm, I’ve already messaged the elder, and the elder’s intention is also not to meddle in Duke An’s matters; our focus is to investigate the destruction of Yiyang Sub-Branch and Wu Dai’s death."

The two barely conducted a probe and turned into streams of light, heading towards the Cyan-faced Mountain Range in Yiyang Kingdom’s Imperial City direction.

A half an hour after their departure, a figure emerged in the sky above.

Shi Ying looked coldly at the direction Xux Guang and Xux Yuan departed, then gazed at the White River below.

"Heavenly Inquiry Tower..."

He squatted here, intending to ensnare the culprit behind the Sacrificial Soldier’s self-destruction, unexpectedly encountering the Heavenly Inquiry Tower.

He could easily extinguish the two from the Heavenly Inquiry Tower.

But to be safe, Shi Ying stayed hidden.

His master Duke An had good relations with several elders of Heavenly Inquiry Tower; since the two hadn’t discovered anything, they couldn’t be killed.

After a pause, Shi Ying once again concealed himself, vanishing.

...

Heavenly Inquiry Tower’s Seventh Realm experts Xux Guang and Xux Yuan arrived at the Cyan-faced Mountain Range Yiyang Sub-Branch.

"Brother, based on the accounts of those who survived, I estimate that the assailant’s strength isn’t very strong, slightly superior to Wu Dai, yet still just Sixth Realm." Xux Yuan had already conducted a survey around.