"So that's where you are!" A faint smile crossed Magnus's face as he flew through the air.
Whoosh! Magnus dove straight into the underground.
From a distance,
Having broken free of his bindings, Lei Sijing realized that Lei Hong was on the verge of death. "Lei Hong!" he roared. His body instantly coiled into an arch, a purple longspear gripped in his hands, and with every ounce of strength he hurled it forward.
Whoosh! The spear tore through the air, a purple phantom trailing black light as it shot toward Chiegewen.
"Hm?" Chiegewen was forced to abandon his killing blow against Lei Hong and raised his hand to block the spear.
Clang!
Chiegewen's body was sent hurtling backward, though he remained completely unscathed.
"You will not kill Lei Hong." Lei Sijing arrived, glaring furiously at Chiegewen. Chiegewen simply smiled leisurely at Lei Sijing. "Lei Sijing, you want to protect this Lei Hong? Fine, protect him—I genuinely can't kill him right now. But it's pointless. The person Mr. Magnus wants dead cannot be saved by you."
Lei Sijing knew all too well that once Magnus returned, Lei Hong was finished.
"Lei Hong, run. Now," Lei Sijing transmitted. "Flee as far as you can. Cross the Star River if you can—get to the other side of the plane battlefield."
"Understood." Lei Hong wasted no words. He immediately shrank his body and shot off at maximum speed toward the Star River.
"Hm?" Chiegewen moved to intercept, but Lei Sijing was already blocking his path.
"Hmph, he won't escape," Chiegewen said with a faint smile. Wuman had arrived at Chiegewen's side as well. With the two of them working together, they had nothing to fear from Lei Sijing and Bei Bei.
The plane battlefield—deep underground.
Lin Lei was fleeing at top speed.
"I've come this far. He shouldn't be able to catch up. But divine power makes detection a problem," Lin Lei thought. "Wait—why are there two streams of divine power searching for me?" He was puzzled. While using divine power himself, he could easily detect the divine sense of others as well.
"Lin Lei, you cannot escape." A voice echoed through Lin Lei's mind.
Lin Lei's expression changed. "Magnus!"
With divine power active, Lin Lei had detected Magnus's probing sense as well.
"One of those streams of divine power is Magnus. But what about the other?" Lin Lei wondered.
But then another voice rang through his mind. "Turn left immediately. Head in a straight line toward the left side." Lin Lei froze—the voice belonged to Greenfire! Clearly, Greenfire had also extended divine power outward and was using it to send a mental transmission. Hearing Greenfire's voice, hope surged in Lin Lei's heart.
"Don't let your guard down. That Highgod Sovereign is much closer to you than I am. I'm still quite a distance away. Turn left now!" Greenfire transmitted urgently.
Lin Lei didn't hesitate. He immediately veered left and shot forward at full speed.
Meanwhile, Greenfire and Magnus were conversing through their divine power.
"Stop, Magnus. Let Lin Lei go," Greenfire said.
"Impossible!" Magnus showed not a shred of hesitation, continuing to pursue Lin Lei at breakneck speed. His velocity was far greater than Lin Lei's, and Greenfire could clearly sense that the distance between Magnus and Lin Lei was rapidly closing. This made Greenfire extremely anxious—he wouldn't be able to arrive in time.
"The person I want to kill cannot be stopped by anyone." Magnus gave Greenfire not the slightest courtesy.
Sovereigns of the Highgod stage did not fear one another. Though both were powerful, neither could truly harm the other. As for Highgod powers… unless absolutely necessary, they would not involve themselves in the disputes of Highgod-level cultivators.
Lin Lei willed it, and his divine power turned transparent, spreading outward like soul force. This divine power covered an enormous range, and he easily detected Magnus. "No good—he's only three li away now. Where's Greenfire?" He extended his sense over a full fifty li but couldn't detect Greenfire.
Lin Lei grew anxious.
Though he had already prepared himself for death, he wouldn't go down without a fight.
"Two li." He could clearly feel the other closing at a terrifying speed. "One li!"
Five hundred meters—at Magnus's speed, even within the Blackstone Space, he could catch up in moments. Lin Lei gritted his teeth. "There's no choice. I have to do this!" Greenfire was clearly still too far away, still rushing toward him. Lin Lei had no option but to grit his teeth and plunge downward.
"Oh? Seeking death?" Magnus smiled coldly, his speed undiminished.
The deeper one went beneath the plane battlefield, the more dangerous it became. At a certain depth, spatial rifts began to appear, and even Sovereigns of the Highgod stage had to tread carefully in such places. Being caught by a sudden spatial rift and pulled into the spatial turbulence within—getting lost in that chaos—was a truly terrifying prospect.
Lin Lei was seeking survival in the heart of death.
"Three hundred meters… two hundred meters… one hundred meters…" Lin Lei could clearly feel that even within the Blackstone Space, Magnus was closing in at a terrifying rate.
Whoosh! Lin Lei himself plunged deeper into the earth.
Whoosh! Without warning, a spatial rift slashed through the ground just a few meters away, carving out a section of soil and rock.
"I've reached it." Lin Lei understood—he had arrived at the boundary. At the same time, his divine-power sense revealed that below him, a hundred meters down, spatial rifts were far more frequent.
"Come on—go a little deeper, if you dare." A mocking voice drifted down.
Lin Lei's divine-power sense clearly showed that Magnus was only twenty meters above him. Then suddenly, Lin Lei's heart leaped with joy. "Greenfire!" Greenfire was now less than ten li away. Earlier, as Lin Lei fled and Magnus pursued, they had been heading in the same direction—Magnus's pursuit had consumed extra time. But Lin Lei and Greenfire had been flying toward each other, so naturally, Greenfire arrived faster.
"His speed is truly fast." Magnus had also detected Greenfire's terrifying velocity. "It seems even faster than mine." Magnus immediately understood—the newcomer's strength was far more formidable than he had anticipated.
"But… it's too late."