97: Chapter 97 A Powerful Enemy of the Third Tier!

Although Hu Rong and the others kept their voices extremely low, the deities still heard them crystal clear. However, since Lin Xiao had not spoken, they did not feel it was their place to say anything either.

Just as everyone had expected, once the pursuers behind realized there was no hope of catching up, they decisively chose to give up and head back in the direction they came.

"My Lord, those undead seem to have stopped chasing?"

"Since they aren't chasing anymore, it's our turn to pursue. Remember to keep a safe distance and don't let them entangle us."

When the returning undead noticed this, the two leading Second-order Deities couldn't help but feel a surge of anger rising in their cold hearts.

"How bold! These petty scoundrels, instead of running for their lives, actually dare to turn around and pursue us? Do they really think we are afraid of them?!"

Led by the two Second-order Deities, the crowd turned around once more, intending to engage in a spectacular battle with them. As a result...

The moment they turned around, the starship also executed a smooth U-turn and started fleeing once again...

"You petty cowards, do you dare to stop and fight! Such behavior is utterly unworthy of your status as a Second-order Deity!"

Elder Yang had no intention of getting angry at the clamor of the enemies behind him. Circulating his Divine Power, his voice projected far into the distance behind them.

"I gave you the chance, yet you still couldn't catch up to this old man. What face do you have to demand a battle now? As for this old man's strength, hasn't it already been proven?

You are now relentlessly pursuing this old man with so many people. Doesn't that just prove you acknowledge my strength? Otherwise, why didn't you come after me alone?"

"You've only taken advantage of a loophole in the Law to gain some cheap benefits, and now you think your strength is superior? If you have the guts, stop and let's fight one-on-one! Let's see what other skills you have besides those underhanded tricks!"

Elder Yang merely smiled with disdain at this proposal.

"Do deities compete in their command of the Laws, or in their gift of gab?"

Watching the starship ahead, which they could never close the distance to, the two Second-order Deities were eventually forced to stop and turn back once more.

And so they went back and forth, chasing and fleeing. The pursuers were utterly disgusted by Lin Xiao's tactics, and after several repetitions, they simply chose to ignore them altogether.

More than thirty minutes later, when they returned, their attacking companions were just about to ask questions when they saw a starship hanging far behind them in the distance.

"What's going on? Didn't you go to pursue the enemy?"

"Isn't that starship behind you a captive? Why is it stopped so far away?"

Hearing their companions' inquiries, the two Second-order Deities looked extremely displeased and gave a brief account of what had happened.

Upon hearing this, the other three companions also fell silent. With the enemy holding the advantage in speed and being bent on fleeing, they really had no good solution.

Just as the five of them were frowning at the distant starship, they suddenly noticed something was amiss. In the next instant, the image of the starship that had been quietly resting in the distance flickered and changed.

The entire starship was accelerating and fleeing frantically into the distance, while several subordinates, who had appeared before them at some unknown moment, were shouting with anxious faces.

"My Lords! They are escaping! What should we do?"

"My Lords?! My Lords, please wake up!"

The sudden distortion of their surroundings left the five Second-order Deities in a brief daze. In the next second, they instantly realized that they had fallen for the enemy's tricks once again.

"Damn it! What kind of Law is that person using anyway?"

"What's going on? What exactly happened just now?"

Seeing that the lords had finally reacted, the subordinates did not dare to delay and hurriedly reported the situation once more.

"Just now, that starship suddenly appeared right in the middle of our ranks. Before we could even figure out what was happening, they had already escaped. After a headcount, we are missing more than a hundred of our companions..."

Hearing this, the faces of the five Second-order Deities turned dark. Right in front of them, the enemy had snatched over a hundred of their subordinates, and they only realized it after the enemy had already fled?

"This is intolerable! They are simply going too far!"

"We must find a way to deal with them! Otherwise, if they snatch our subordinates a few more times, how will we be able to keep control of the situation?!"

"The other party's Law is too bizarre; we have absolutely no way to counter it. We don't even know when we fell into the illusion, so how can we deal with it?"

"Let's notify the Lord. Those people are far too dangerous. If we cannot eliminate them, I'm afraid..."

Inside the tomb, when Elder Wang Wu heard the news from his subordinates, his brow furrowed deeply.

"Illusions? The Law of Falsehood... When did such a figure appear in Anping County? And of all times, it had to be now..."

To maintain the lockdown of the entire planet, most of his power was tied down. He had originally thought that with those Third-order Deities pinned down by the six subordinates he had painstakingly nurtured, the situation would be secure.

Yet now, this group of people had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Looking at it this way, the disappearance of his Second-order subordinates earlier was highly likely their doing as well.

"Is this fate? What a pity... I, for one, do not believe in fate!"

As he spoke, several wisps of Origin Qi emerged from Elder Wang Wu's body. With the draining of the Origin Death Qi, his withered frame became even more stooped.

After the wisps of Origin Death Qi vanished, they appeared, by some unknown means, around the five blazing suns high up in the sky.

The two opposing forces currently locked in combat suddenly paused. When Magistrate Mei Fang and the other Third-order Deities saw that Death Qi, their already grim expressions darkened even further.

"Origin Death Qi! Has the mastermind completely lost his patience? Is he trying to quickly settle the outcome of this battle?"

Just as the County Magistrate's side shifted from offense to defense, the remaining Third-order Deity on the opposite side, who had not absorbed any Origin Death Qi, suddenly turned around.

He plummeted rapidly toward a certain location below.

This scene startled the ten people, including the County Magistrate. Realizing what was happening a moment later, they instantly unleashed an even more earth-shattering offensive.

Although they didn't know exactly what had happened, judging by the situation, there must have been some unexpected turn of events below.

This had forced the Third-order Deity behind the scenes to redeploy manpower to deal with it, even going so far as to allocate a portion of the Origin Death Qi to strengthen the remaining five.

Having figured this out, how could the County Magistrate and the others bear to miss such a rare opportunity?

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao and his group had been fleeing leisurely. Seeing that there were no pursuers behind them, they were just preparing to turn back and launch another sneak attack.

Suddenly, Guan Hong's body began to tremble violently, and he let out the shrillest, most explosive shriek of his life.

"Run! A massive disaster is approaching us!!!"

Hearing his words, everyone froze for a tenth of a second. In the next instant, the modified starship instantly erupted with its maximum speed.

Like a beam of light, it whistled off into the distance.

At this moment, a blazing sun was plummeting rapidly from the sky. It constantly adjusted its trajectory as it fell, its target locked dead on the starship of Lin Xiao's group!

Elder Yang suddenly raised his head to look at the starship's dome, his Divine Thought passing directly through the starship to see the blazing sun plummeting from the sky!

With a soft sigh, he circulated his Law power, wrapping it around the entire starship.

"It seems we've thoroughly provoked them. A Third-order Deity is descending from the sky. Going all out, I can probably hold him off for about ten seconds... My Lord, please think of something quickly!"