Chapter 290: Chase and Escape

"Damn it? Still trying to run?"Han Xiao's spear thrust hit empty air. He stomped his foot down violently.

"Boom!"

The ground cracked. His entire body shot up like a cannonball, leaping to the top of a giant tree beside him.

His toes tapped once more on the treetop, his figure rising again as he jumped towards another, taller tree.

He continued bounding like this across the forest canopy.

Continuously closing the distance with Su Zhan in the air.

He could also walk on air, but compared to flight speed, it was still very slow.

Su Zhan frantically drove his fleshy wings, climbing towards the higher sky.

Altitude was his only advantage at this moment.

Han Xiao made several consecutive leaps from the treetops, already reaching the limit height of his jumps, but he was still a good distance short of Su Zhan, who was constantly gaining height.

He watched helplessly as that winged figure flew higher and higher, about to leave his attack range.

"Damn it, get down here for me!"

Han Xiao stood on the highest branch of a towering ancient tree, leaning his body back like a fully drawn powerful bow. The golden-red spiritual energy from his entire body surged madly into the Blazing Plains Blood Spear in his hand.

The spear shaft trembled violently, emitting an excited hum.

Han Xiao used all his strength to hurl the long spear in his hand like a javelin, throwing it fiercely towards Su Zhan high in the sky.

"Whoosh—!!!"

The Blazing Plains Blood Spear transformed into a golden-red meteor tearing through the sky, its speed exceeding the limit of what the naked eye could capture.

Wherever the spear shaft passed, the air was pushed aside.

Forming a visible white airwave channel.

This spear contained the full power of Han Xiao's Abyss Realm, its force enough to pierce through mountains.

A hair's breadth from life and death!

Su Zhan's Future Vision frantically warned him.

He didn't even have time to look back, relying purely on instinct to violently twist his dragon wings to one side, while forcibly making an evasive maneuver in mid-air.

"Ssss—!"

The golden-red spear shadow almost brushed past his ribs.

The sharp, peerless spear intent even tore through the scales on his flank from a distance, sending up a trail of blood.

That scorching, fierce aura made half his body go numb.

He dodged it.

The Blazing Plains Blood Spear vanished into the higher cloud layer.

Su Zhan didn't dare pause for even a moment. Enduring the intense pain, he flapped his wings with all his might, fleeing for his life towards the southern horizon without looking back, soon turning into a small black dot.

Suddenly.

An Abyss Realm pressure, not the slightest bit inferior to Han Xiao's, descended from the cloud layer above him without any warning.

"Screech—!"

A clear, cloud-piercing cry of a bird rang out.

The cloud layer above was stirred by an invisible force, breaking open a large hole.

A figure in icy blue swooped down.

It was a woman with a cold, beautiful face.

She wore tight-fitting icy blue attire.

Spread behind her was a pair of enormous wings, completely condensed from ice crystals and dazzling radiance.

As the wings flapped, they scattered specks of ice crystal stardust, and the surrounding temperature plummeted.

Another Abyss Realm!

And one possessing a flying-type Life Soul!

Su Zhan's heart sank completely to the bottom.

So that's why Han Xiao dared to intercept him alone—this was a trap specifically targeting his flight ability from the start.

The Aberrant Purge Division knew he could fly and had specially arranged an Abyss Realm expert with flight capability to provide support from high altitude.

"Murdering a fellow officer of the Aberrant Purge Division is an unforgivable crime! Surrender now!"

The cold, beautiful woman's voice was like ten-thousand-year-old ice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

Her hands formed a seal in front of her, and the pair of icy crystal light wings behind her gave a powerful flap.

"Thousand Feathers Ice Kill!"

Countless icy blue feathers, formed from extreme cold and spiritual energy, descended upon Su Zhan like a violent storm.

Su Zhan sensed a death crisis.

Gritting his teeth fiercely, ignoring the injury to his right arm, he used Mist Energy to form a rotating dark vortex in front of him. Simultaneously, his fleshy wings flapped frantically as he performed various high-difficulty evasive maneuvers in the air.

"Thud thud thud thud—!"

Dense impact sounds rang out.

A large number of ice feathers pierced through his defense.

Leaving deep, bone-exposing frozen wounds all over Su Zhan's body. A bone-piercing chill wildly eroded his body, and his speed dropped significantly.

"Let's see where you can run now!"

Seeing this from the ground, Han Xiao laughed loudly, leaped onto a treetop again, and the Blazing Plains Blood Spear reformed in his hand. He slashed out spear energy streaks.

Su Zhan desperately flapped his dragon wings, new wounds constantly adding to his body, blood sprinkling down from the sky.

He absolutely could not get caught in a pincer attack between the two!

Su Zhan suddenly looked up, gazing at the higher firmament.

The remaining power within his body poured into his fleshy wings.

Climb!

Climb regardless of the cost!

Su Zhan, like a black flood dragon swimming against the current, dragged his dripping blood and shattered scales, stubbornly charging towards higher airspace.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Han Xiao's spear energy began to weaken after reaching a certain altitude, its trajectory becoming easier to predict, until it finally vanished.

"Damn it! He flies pretty damn high!"

Han Xiao on the treetop cursed angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

"Stubborn resistance!"

The woman snorted coldly. Her icy crystal light wings flapped elegantly yet powerfully, stirring up icy cold wind vortices. Her speed suddenly increased as she gave chase relentlessly.

She clearly also possessed excellent flight capability and seemed unaffected by the low temperature and thin air.

Su Zhan pushed his speed to the limit, enduring the intense pain from multiple fractures throughout his body and his displaced internal organs, frantically fleeing southward.

The icy killing intent from the woman behind him locked onto him firmly.

The two of them, one in front and one behind, drew two long trails across the sky.

One dark as ink.

One brilliantly icy blue.

Su Zhan could sense that her speed wasn't much faster than his, especially when he was fighting for his life.

But she was in perfect condition, while he was at the end of his rope. His injuries kept worsening during flight, and his strength was draining rapidly.

"I have to shake her off... or find a chance to escape her..."

Su Zhan and the ice-winged woman engaged in a chase across the sky.

Like two meteors streaking across the horizon.

Right at this moment.

Future Vision delivered an intense warning.

Not from the woman behind him, but from the distant ground far below.

Almost at the same moment Su Zhan sensed it.

From the cloud layer below, several objects trailing blazing white flames shot through the air with terrifying momentum far exceeding their flight speed!

Anti-aircraft missiles!

Daxia's air defense system had clearly already locked onto these two targets flying at extreme speed at high altitude.

And they had probably already identified him, so they were aimed at him.

Future Vision instantly calculated the missiles' trajectories, speeds, and explosion ranges.

Su Zhan abruptly retracted his fleshy wings inward, performing a near-ninety-degree sharp turn in mid-air while diving downward with all his might.

"Whoosh—!"

Two missiles almost grazed the edges of his retracted fleshy wings as they roared past.

The scorching heatwave made his scales stand on end.

The ice-winged woman closely following behind him, however, did not possess such heaven-defying predictive ability.

Her entire attention was locked onto Su Zhan.

By the time she detected the incoming missiles, she was already half a beat too late.

She tried to evade in horror.

But, it was too late!