Chapter 580: Chapter 496: The Pursuit
This time, Jeming extended the Light Transformation Escape Technique to an unprecedented duration.
Rainbow light pierced through the sky, traversing wastelands, rocky mountains, dried ancient riverbeds, and landscapes rising like the bones of giant beasts.
Until his spiritual power was nearly depleted, and his soul sent waves of stinging exhaustion, he finally let the light fade, his figure reforming on a strange plain.
"Huff... ha..."
He knelt on one knee, hand pressed against the gray-white ground, his chest heaving violently, every breath seeming to carry a burning sensation.
This time, the Light Transformation had flown over twenty million kilometers.
Sustaining long-distance Light Transformation Escape, even with his current physique and the adaptation of the Body Refining Technique, was nearing his limit.
But as he lifted his head, Jeming’s face cracked into an uncontrollable grin.
"Two Sixth Levels... even if they survive, they’re wasted in this war."
That ball of Red Dust Qi was his entire stockpile accumulated over hundreds of years.
The weight and intensity of the red dust thoughts contained within were enough to briefly plunge a Seventh Level Wizard not strong in will into the "Red Dust Tribulation," leaving his consciousness immersed in delusional thoughts of all beings.
Using it to trap two unprotected Sixth Level Wizards was absolutely effective.
He swiftly pulled out several high-tier recovery magic potions and downed them.
As the potion’s power dissolved, "Body Refining Technique" and "Qi Cultivation Technique" operated, rapidly transforming the potion’s power, the sparse elemental energy from the outside world, and the essence stored in his body into nourishment for his Sea of Spirit and physique.
The feeling of fatigue receded like tidewater.
"I need to plan a route back." As Jeming regulated his breath, he calmly thought, "Although I’ve dealt with two, the remaining guy might still pursue... I have to prepare for the worst-case scenario."
If that Sixth Level Wizard from the Tower of Annihilation indeed has a method to track again, then continuing to maneuver in unknown enemy territory is not wise.
The best choice is to return to the Nolun Workshop frontline—though the distance is far now, with the speed of Light Transformation Escape Technique and his recovery ability, he can fully adopt the "Long-distance Escape—Short Recovery—Continue Escape" relay mode.
As long as the escape distance is far enough and the recovery intervals are short enough, even if the opponent can track, interception along the way would be extremely difficult.
After all, the speed of Light Transformation Escape Technique truly reaches light speed.
Just as he was nearly recovered and ready to take out the Magic Network Terminal to confirm his relative coordinates with the camp...
A space fluctuation so intense it could not be ignored, like a giant rock thrown into a calm lake, suddenly came from afar!
Distance... only a few thousand kilometers!
Jeming raised his head abruptly, his pupils shrinking.
Such intense and unmasked space fluctuation was clearly not a natural phenomenon but a sign of high-level space magic activation!
What made his heart sink further was that the moment the fluctuation calmed, a familiar icy energy aura pierced his perception like a needle...
It’s that Wizard from the Tower of Annihilation!
He’s caught up!
Using teleportation, he crossed more than twenty million kilometers, directly closing the distance to this perilous range!
"How could it be so fast?!" Jeming’s mind spun quickly, deducing several possibilities, and the most logical one made his expression extremely grim.
"He discovered... the flaw of the Light Transformation Escape Technique."
The Five Elements Rainbow Transformation Mirror’s light transformation escape, although its speed was unparalleled at the same level, had an innate weakness: it could only fly in a straight line.
This was limited by the physical properties of "light" itself, and even through cultivation and transformation means, this fundamental law could not be violated.
Only, this weakness is generally inconsequential.
After all, the distance advantage brought by light speed could overshadow everything.
Unfortunately, the opponent was an experienced and sharp-minded Sixth Level Wizard who devised a counterattack just by witnessing the process of escape once.
The opponent deduced his flight trajectory direction and then used ultra-long-distance teleportation to directly jump to somewhere along the trajectory’s extension line for interception!
Even if it isn’t found at once, with multiple short-distance jumps, it’s always possible to catch up.
"...Now it’s troublesome!"
At the moment Jeming realized the solution, the distant icy aura paused slightly, then suddenly shifted direction.
Evidently, the opponent also discovered him!
Without a moment’s hesitation, Jeming clenched his right hand in the air, overloading his witchcraft model inside the Sea of Spirit with vast spiritual power!
"Space... Stabilization!"
Buzzz!!!
From him as the center, the spherical area with a diameter of over a hundred kilometers was forcibly "locked" in space structure!
Layers of invisible force fields intertwined into a net, as if casting this space into transparent crystal.
Any attempts to conduct space jumps, phase shifts, or high-intensity space disturbance activities within this area would be greatly hindered and subjected to backlash.
Almost as the space stabilization formed, in the sky over a hundred kilometers away, a gray-white silhouette squeezed out of the void as if tearing through canvas.
It was indeed that Sixth Level Wizard from the Tower of Annihilation!
With his left hand holding a struggling dark shadow hound, although surprised by Jeming’s reactive speed, his right hand maintained a forward grasping gesture upon emerging.
His palm was roiling with gray-white mist, evidently ready to launch an attack the moment teleportation was completed.
However, Jeming’s response was quicker.
In the instant the opponent’s figure wasn’t fully stabilized, rainbow light burst forth once again from Jeming!
"Don’t even think about it!"
The Tower of Annihilation Wizard sneered, his right hand tightened in a claw gesture!
A sound like shattering glass came from nowhere, and vast space ahead imploded inwardly, as if an invisible giant hand wanted to crush the area along with the rainbow light!
But still, he was half a step too slow.
The imploding space only captured the trailing end of the rainbow light.
That dazzling stream of light, like a bird freed from its cage, surged onward unstoppably, disappearing at the horizon’s edge.
The gray-white silhouette flashed, instantly appearing at Jeming’s former location.
Hovering in mid-air, he looked down at the slightly trembling palm of his right hand.
There remained strands of unassimilated rainbow specks, seemingly mocking his failure.
"Straight line... I see." Within the shadow of his wizard’s hood, two crimson glints flickered faintly, uttering a low mutter, "Speed is light speed, but direction is fixed... next time, you won’t escape."
He released his left hand, letting the shadow hound land, its snout twitching as it quickly locked onto the direction in which the rainbow light had departed, emitting a low whine.
The wizard wasted no time, picked up the shadow hound, and with spiritual power constructed ultra-long-distance teleportation witchcraft, spending several seconds until his form became vague again.
Approximately fifteen hundred kilometers from here, high in the sky, space ripples spread, and the gray-white silhouette reappeared.
The shadow hound was tossed out, sniffing briefly in mid-air before indicating another direction.
"Oh? Shortening escape distance intentionally and redirecting en route? Futile struggle!"
The wizard remained expressionless, picked up the shadow hound, and continued initiating teleportation.
This time deliberately shortening the teleportation distance significantly and the activation time as well.
Once, twice, thrice...
He operated like a seasoned hunter, efficiently cornering his prey through continuous short-distance teleportations.
This tracking method demands extremely high control power over spiritual and space elements and incurs massive consumption.
Yet he remained indifferent.
The threat posed by the Fifth Level Wizard had already exceeded normal parameters.
At all costs, he must be completely eradicated before reaching the Nolun Workshop’s main forces.
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