272: You chase me, I run; if I catch you, I'll "hehehehe" with you.

"Senior Brother——!"

Lin Qingxue's shrill cry was instantly torn apart by the howling gale.

She watched helplessly as that resolute crimson stream of light charged without hesitation toward the heart-palpitating grey-white pillar of light deep within the Secret Realm, while behind it, the blood-colored demonic rainbow exuding monstrous demonic might pursued relentlessly, like maggots on a bone!

Despair, like venomous snakes and ants, gnawed at everyone's heart.

But the time Yao Delong had bought with his life must not be wasted!

"Go!"

Lin Qingxue abruptly wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes, her voice filled with unprecedented coldness and determination.

She rushed to the deep pit and hoisted the heavily injured, unconscious, and weak-breathed Yue Shan onto her back. The heavy body caused her to stagger, and blood seeped from the corners of her mouth again, but she gritted her teeth and stood firm.

Han Yun and Qiong Shuang also acted immediately.

Han Yun carried the similarly unconscious Xiao Huohuo on her back, while Qiong Shuang carefully lifted Lin Shishi using the power of ice crystals.

The little dragon's large ice-blue eyes were filled with worry and anger, but she understood that protecting these heavily injured companions and ensuring their safe retreat was the greatest support she could give Yao Delong!

"Quick! Go find Senior Sister Liu!"

Lin Qingxue let out a low shout, forcibly enduring the intense pain in her Meridians and the emptiness of her power. She identified the direction and, following the guidance of the jade talisman, transformed into an ice-blue stream of light and sped off first.

Han Yun and Qiong Shuang followed closely behind. The three figures, carrying their heavy burdens, flew with difficulty over the broken ruins and quickly vanished into the swirling dust and smoke.

Meanwhile, within the crimson stream of light fleeing for its life, Yao Delong's mind was unusually calm, even carrying a hint of all-in madness!

"Where to flee?" This thought flashed through his mind like lightning.

After Luo Tianying devoured two Nascent Soul Cultivators, her strength had reached the threshold of Soul Transformation; her speed, power, and Divine Sense far exceeded his!

In any ordinary direction, he would inevitably be caught within a hundred miles!

His gaze was locked firmly onto that grey-white pillar of light piercing the heavens in the distance!

Over the past few days, as Qiong Shuang led them to scavenge for treasures throughout the Secret Realm, Yao Delong had vaguely sensed that in the direction of that grey-white pillar of light, there was an extremely faint yet unusually familiar aura calling out to him!

That aura was cold and deathly, carrying a sense of finality that caused all things to wither, yet it produced a strange resonance with the Heart Sword deep within his Sea of Consciousness, which was formed by his Divine Sense and Sword Intent!

Qiong Shuang had once warned him with lingering fear: "Big Brother, that place is extremely evil! For a hundred miles around, no birds or beasts can be found! I saw with my own eyes a Tier 5 Earth-Splitting Demon Bear; the moment it stepped onto the edge of that area, it collapsed without a sound. Its corpse was perfectly intact, not even a hair was missing, yet its Divine Soul had completely dissipated! That grey light... is a true land of death!"

A land of death! A desperate situation! But at this moment, this deadly desperate situation was Yao Delong's only chance of survival!

Only by utilizing the unknown danger that even Qiong Shuang feared could he possibly block, or perhaps even backlash, against that terrifying demoness behind him!

Furthermore, that strong attraction toward the Heart Sword seemed to guide him in the dark; perhaps there, the opportunity for the Heart Sword to advance further, or even for him to turn the tables in this desperate situation, was hidden!

"I'll bet on it!"

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Yao Delong's eyes!

He did not hesitate to take out the nine revolutions profound yang pill, which was the size of a dragon's eye and swirled with nine mysterious golden patterns, and swallowed it in one gulp!

Boom——!!!

A violent and scorching torrent of medicinal power instantly exploded within his body! It was like countless streams of scalding lava rushing and scouring through his Meridians! The intense pain was like being pricked by ten thousand needles!

But Yao Delong gritted his teeth and did not make a sound! He had undergone Body Tempering with Pill Fire, and his Meridians were far tougher than those of his peers. While this terrifying medicinal power, which would have shattered the Meridians of an ordinary Golden Core Cultivator, raged within his body, it did not cause any irreversible damage!

"Break for me!"

The Eight Desolations Prison Suppression Art and the Great Sun Body Forging Art operated frantically at the same time, forcibly guiding and taming this violent power!

His aura climbed step by step like a volcanic eruption! Finally, it stabilized steadily at the terrifying level of the Mid Nascent Soul Stage! A sevenfold increase!

This was the limit of the nine revolutions profound yang pill, and also the perfect manifestation of his profound Foundation!

Hum!

The Burning Silence Sword felt its master's surging power and emitted an excited hum, its crimson-gold flames flaring up by several feet!

Yao Delong's speed soared instantly! The distance, which had been closed to less than ten miles, was suddenly widened again!

"Hmm?!"

Luo Tianying, who was pursuing relentlessly behind, narrowed her blood-red eyes, a flash of surprise appearing in them.

"A nine revolutions profound yang pill? Hmph! A deathbed struggle! Even if you have risen to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage, in front of me, you are still an ant!"

She looked at the crimson stream of light ahead whose speed had surged, the killing intent in her eyes growing even stronger.

The greater the potential Yao Delong displayed and the more tempting the secrets he possessed, the more she wanted to capture him and squeeze out every bit of value!

"Want to rely on speed to shake me off? Wishful thinking!"

Luo Tianying let out a cold snort, and the Devilish Qi all around her began to boil! She tore violently at the Void Realm in front of her with her fair, jade-like hand!

Chila——!

A subtle yet real pitch-black spatial rift was actually torn open by her by force!

Although it was only a foot long and was instantly mended by the powerful Law of space within the Secret Realm, this brief spatial rift was enough for her to perform a super-short-distance spatial escape!

Swish!

Luo Tianying's figure instantly vanished from where she was, and the next moment, she had already appeared dozens of miles away! The distance to Yao Delong was instantly closed by a large margin!

"Spatial escape?!"

Yao Delong's Divine Sense had been highly vigilant, and he instantly caught the violent spatial fluctuations and the suddenly approaching terrifying demonic might behind him!

His heart shook violently! The space in this Secret Realm was different from the outside world; it was extremely stable, and Nascent Soul Cultivators could not perform spatial teleportation at all! After devouring Nascent Soul Cultivators, this demoness's strength had actually become this terrifying, able to forcibly tear open a sliver of space!

"Instantaneous Body Sword Art!"

Yao Delong did not dare to hesitate in the slightest, his thoughts racing! The Burning Silence Sword in his hand flashed with explosive crimson-gold light, and his whole body instantly became illusory!

Swish!

His figure disappeared from where he was, and the next moment he appeared more than sixty miles away! However, this distance was already greatly reduced compared to the teleportation of over a hundred miles he could perform in his prime! The spatial suppression of the Secret Realm was effective against any escape technique!

"Hmph! Let's see how many times you can teleport!"

A trace of impatience and annoyance flashed in Luo Tianying's blood-red eyes. This spatial leap was equally exhausting for her, far less easy than it was in the outside world.

She gathered her Demonic Essence once again and tore fiercely at the Void Realm with her jade-like hand! Chila!

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Above the vast and dangerous land of the Secret Realm, a heart-pounding deadly chase was unfolding!

A crimson sword light, like a teleport, kept flickering in the low altitude. Each time it appeared, it crossed dozens of miles, fleeing for its life toward the increasingly close pillar of light that emitted a deathly grey glow.

And not far behind him, a blood-colored demonic rainbow, like a ghost, kept tearing through space to perform short-distance leaps. Each time it appeared, it carried a suffocating demonic might, closing the distance by a few points!

The two chased and fled, their speed reaching the extreme. Along the way, they startled countless dormant powerful Yao Beasts, but upon sensing that terrifying aura, all of them retreated in terror!