99: Seriously injured and escaping, close at hand

A Subduing Demon Pestle appeared in the Nuns' hand, and she slammed it towards Ji Wu.

The Subduing Demon Pestle continuously grew in size, quickly expanding to the size of a mountain range.

The thousand-meter-long Subduing Demon Pestle landed on Ji Wu's head, and the immense pressure made his body drop several feet uncontrollably.

"There's still a gap," Ji Wu muttered, shaking his head. Even with his full power, there was still a significant difference between him and a peak Great Power. At the Great Power Realm, each difference in level meant at least a tenfold disparity.

Ji Wu, at full power, had one foot in the ranks of top-tier Great Powers, but there was still more than a tenfold difference between him and a peak Great Power. It was like a hundred-pound fighter competing against a thousand-pound fighter; the hundred-pound fighter would probably be sent flying seven or eight meters.

"Lin!" Ji Wu propped up the sky with his hand, and a bell-shaped phantom protected him as The 'Lin Zi Secret' was activated.

The bell phantom transformed into a stream of light and plunged into the desert, directly smashing dozens of meters deep. While The 'Lin Zi Secret' wasn't broken, Ji Wu couldn't withstand the pressure and was directly forced underground.

"Pfft!" A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out. Before Ji Wu could wipe it away, he felt the suffocating pressure from the quicksand above, indicating that the Nuns' attack had arrived again.

"Zhe" character secret was activated, and his injuries instantly recovered. Ji Wu used his Earth Evasion Divine Ability and burrowed deeper.

The pressure from behind grew stronger and stronger, and the bell phantom was already deformed from the compression.

He unleashed Spiritual Qi, desperately maintaining The 'Lin Zi Secret', as he still had a small child in his arms.

He resisted the urge to take out a jade talisman and deal with these Nuns. If he had to rely on a jade talisman for such a small difficulty, he would be waiting for death when he went to the Emperor Road later.

The shattering of his Meridians caused Ji Wu to spit out blood again. Damn it, this was too wasteful. The last time this venerable self shed so much blood was when he was donating blood in his previous life.

Ji Wu endured another blow. The fluctuation of Divine Thought sweeping over him made him realize one fact: going underground was not the way out.

The heavy pressure came again. "I'll risk it!" Ji Wu struck upwards with one palm, and all the phenomena behind him condensed onto his palm-blade.

A blade light tore open the sand dune above his head and collided with the descending Subduing Demon Pestle. The sand dune exploded, revealing a thousand-meter-wide crater, and Ji Wu's figure was revealed.

Activating his Divine Ability, Ji Wu swept towards the east, because the Nuns were already directly above him. When else was there to run?

"Can you escape?" The Nuns said coldly, without a trace of compassion.

The air shrieked, Spiritual Qi roared, and the Subduing Demon Pestle, carrying billions of tons of force, once again slammed towards Ji Wu.

"Reverse Yin and Yang!" Ji Wu's palms flipped as if to overturn this world, but his strength was simply insufficient to reverse the Subduing Demon Pestle's attack. With all his might, he could only divert the Subduing Demon Pestle to the side. Even so, his entire Meridians felt a burning pain. Without unleashing Spiritual Qi, he couldn't even budge this damned Subduing Demon Pestle.

The Subduing Demon Pestle smashed into the desert, its immense power blasting away hundreds of nearby sand dunes.

A sandstorm soared into the sky, swept by the surging currents and raging in all directions.

"Damn it, that bald woman really has no public morality!" The city guard commander, using his ocular Divine Ability, saw the exchange and cursed loudly. He had no choice but to increase the power of the Formation, which consumed Spirit Stones! This year's year-end bonus would be less again, damn it!

Ji Yi transformed into a stream of light and continued to sweep towards the city. 'If I reach there, I win; if I don't, you die,' Ji Wu thought to himself.

"This feeling of playing whack-a-mole is truly amusing," the Nuns said with a smile, though it had a somewhat cruel undertone no matter how one looked at it.

The Subduing Demon Pestle's attack arrived again, and Ji Wu spewed blood, losing another blood donation's worth. However, the Subduing Demon Pestle's attack was once again diverted by him, causing another sandstorm that made the commander curse loudly.

The distance of two hundred li was rapidly closing. At Ji Wu's current flying speed, two hundred li was covered very quickly.

However, with the Nuns' attacks obstructing him, he frequently had to change direction, which slowed him down.

Relying on the recovery of "Zhe" character secret, Ji Wu endured five more attacks. At this point, the city was less than a hundred li away.

"Alright, I'm done playing with you." The Nuns, of course, knew Ji Wu's plan. Seeing that the distance was close enough, she had no intention of continuing to play.

"Subduing Demon Strike!" The Subduing Demon Pestle surged to three thousand meters, its power increasing several times. It wasn't just Ji Wu who could unleash power; she could too.

"Damn it!" Feeling the pressure from the Subduing Demon Pestle, Ji Wu knew he couldn't block it with the Great Divine Ability of Reverse Yin and Yang.

He used "Zhe" character secret again. Feeling his Spiritual Qi almost depleted and his life force greatly consumed, Ji Wu felt a bit helpless. It was too difficult.

The phenomenon unfolded, and Ji Wu once again unleashed that knife strike condensed from the phenomenon. The blade light collided with the Subduing Demon Pestle, and the exploding airflow threw Ji Wu flying. He no longer had any spare strength to protect himself, only condensing power to shield the infant in his chest.

Fortunately, the aftershock of the power slightly impeded the Nuns' movement. Back and forth, the distance between Ji Wu and the Nuns widened again.

Ignoring the burning pain in his Meridians, Ji Wu increased his speed and swept towards the city. That city had the Ji Family's influence; once he reached it, he would be safe.

"You won't escape!" The Nuns' chilling voice made the hot desert drop a few degrees. Ji Wu was like an unkillable grasshopper, jumping around in front of her. She could clearly swat him dead with one palm, but this grasshopper had many tricks and always dodged her palm. She was utterly enraged.

Unleashing Spiritual Qi again, enduring internal injuries, she was determined to kill Ji Wu with her pestle.

The Subduing Demon Pestle, carrying rolling spatial waves, once again smashed towards Ji Wu's head.

"How much hatred, how much resentment is this? Do you need to push so hard?" Ji Wu said, annoyed. Wasn't it just an infant? To go to such lengths to kill them all, no wonder the War of Doctrines could even drag down the Primordial Saints. They were truly unreasonable.

Ji Wu's hair turned gray, and wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes at a young age, due to the excessive consumption of life force. However, if he didn't activate "Zhe" character secret, he couldn't unleash the phenomenon, and if he couldn't unleash the phenomenon, how could he block this attack?

The phenomenon condensed on his palm and struck out again. Ji Wu's figure, along with the Spiritual Qi explosion, was blasted tens of li away.

Without time to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, he stimulated Spiritual Qi, activated the Profound Truth of Extreme Speed, and continued to flee. The city was getting closer, only a few li away now.

The Nuns caught up again, and the Subduing Demon Pestle once again tore through the air, striking.

"Hold on for me!" Feeling the Subduing Demon Pestle return to its previous offensive, the Nuns dared not unleash more power. Damaging one's Foundation was something that could affect a Cultivator's Dao path.

Ji Yi mobilized all the Spiritual Qi he could, fully supporting "Zhe" character secret, and charged forward with all his might.