Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2348: 184: Ambush
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The scenery inside Soul Falling shifted without cease. Wang Ba had journeyed through this region before en route to the Cloud Sky Realm, yet as he backtracked now, the area bore no resemblance to the one etched in his recollections.
At the same time, the noise trailing him grew nearer at a swift pace:
“Think you can delay me here? Ha! Pure delusion!”
A chill gripped Wang Ba's heart, though he refused to glance back, opting instead to whirl his sword in a rearward strike!
The pursuing gray radiance evaded nimbly, its motion briefly interrupted.
The Black Foxes, having just failed to encircle Wang Ba, bared their fangs as the gray light zipped past and unleashed a chorus of phantom cries!
Countless such spectral noises zeroed in on the gray light simultaneously.
Once again, the gray light came to a stop, unveiling the form of a monk clad in gray robes, irritation flickering across his features.
“You filthy creatures!”
With a mere flicker of intent, his remaining sleeve fluttered through the air, drawing forth piercing shrieks and fleeing echoes from the nearby emptiness.
“Hmph!”
The gray-robed monk shot a look at the retreating demonic beasts but deemed them unworthy of pursuit. Noticing Wang Ba widening the gap anew, he morphed back into gray light amid vexation, golden radiance flaring as he barreled through Soul Falling with unyielding chase after Wang Ba.
Sensing the Northern Great Bodhisattva drawing close once more, Wang Ba veered aside from a massive boulder tumbling his way. Despite the weight on his spirit, his face stayed composed, and in that fleeting moment, his Spiritual Sense expanded to cover all of Soul Falling.
“There it is, right here!”
As his awareness swept over the whole of Soul Falling, a rush of thrill coursed through Wang Ba!
In the scope of his Spiritual Sense, swirls of the Realm Sea turned lazily within a segment of the void inside Soul Falling…
Right then, a jolt pierced Wang Ba’s core.
He abruptly detected a Buddha Bead hurtling toward him from the rear!
“It's back!”
Wang Ba's gaze hardened. Without fully evading this Northern Great Bodhisattva, escape from this domain would prove impossible.
A quick notion sparked Divine Patterns into glow, and he vanished from sight in an instant!
The Buddha Bead sailed through the afterimage Wang Ba had left, then returned to the pursuing gray-robed monk's grasp.
“Eh?”
The gray-robed monk's eyes narrowed tensely, followed by a sneer:
“See if you can flee anywhere!”
Upon a mental command, an odd profundity unlike ordinary laws materialized in his vision.
“Found you!”
With those words, the gray-robed monk blinked out of existence as well.
Upon materializing again, he swept his eyes around rapidly, only to feel a brief disorientation:
“Still in this spot?”
Suspended stones, tumbling Chaos Origin Substance; scarcely distinguishable from the prior position.
No chance for deep thought, as his Spiritual Sense soon spotted a streak of green darting swiftly amid the crisscrossing boulders afar, prompting him to dash after it without delay!
However, the very second he skirted the boulder, boundless shadow swallowed him whole!
“A trap!?”
The gray-robed monk's pulse raced, and at once, an alarm blared in his consciousness.
On reflex, he adjusted his stance slightly, lifting a hand to ward off the threat.
Without sound, without trace, without warning, he abruptly found his safeguarding Divine Skills breached outright!
In the nick of time, he extended his arm, just managing to intercept it!
A searing agony exploded in his thoughts!
Fuming with rage, the gray-robed monk prepared to burst free from the shadow when it suddenly dissipated, giving way to a faint emptiness plain to see.
That distant green gleam was now nearby, veering once more toward the endless Chaos Origin Substance ahead.
Glancing downward, a clean slice marred his palm, running straight through its middle, Demonic Qi oozing forth before his Golden Body swiftly contained it.
“Taiyi!”
Shock and fury warred on the gray-robed monk's face.
Clarity dawned now. The earlier green light was merely an Illusion Technique woven by his foe. In his haste to catch up, he had blundered into the snare, letting the enemy spring an assault from beside the boulder.
Though wrath boiled within, he couldn't deny a grudging respect for his adversary's boldness.
Not his equal in strength, yet daring to set an ambush. Indeed, at his Cultivation Realm, a touch of vigilance would have exposed the ruse—precisely why he hadn't anticipated the trap, and the foe had seized on that blind spot for a flawless strike.
Vast as their power gap was, potent though the opponent's Dao Treasure might be, it had only grazed him lightly.
Yet for him, this amounted to profound disgrace!
“Hold on!”
“Don't let your guard down!”
“He could be trying to goad me into slipping away…”
Fixing his stare, the gray-robed monk resumed his gray light form without pause, tracking the green glow within his perception.
This time, however, caution marked his advance, eyes sharp on every detail around him.
Whoosh—
Fierce gusts roared, Chaos Origin Substance surging like misty billows.
The gray light hurtled onward, bold in charge but laced with wariness.
As the gap to the forward green light shrank rapidly, the gray-robed monk clutched a Buddha Bead tightly, poised to hurl it forth.
Suddenly, his attention snapped elsewhere!
Amid the far-flung, limitless Chaos Origin Substance, a massive dark silhouette lurked quietly at the horizon's brink, drawing in and expelling the surrounding Chaos Origin Substance ceaselessly.
True Man Taiyi's green light form plunged straight toward it!
Witnessing this, the gray-robed monk sharpened his senses at once.
“A companion?”
The enormous form seemed remote, yet truly it loomed near. In the span of an eyeblink, through the vaporous Chaos Origin Substance, both had closed in to confront the behemoth's actual shape.