Volume 1, Chapter 304 – Pursuit

At a glance, the old man could tell that Shi Lan was already at the end of her rope. She had very little life essence left and absolutely could not hold on for much longer.

Seeing Shi Lan flee at top speed into the depths of the Boundless Demon Domain, the old man hesitated briefly, then restrained all fluctuations of his aura and led his people in pursuit.

Unlike the old man and his party, Shi Lan concealed none of her tracks whatsoever. She streaked across the skies of the demon domain in an outrageously conspicuous manner, and the piercing sonic booms she left behind could be heard clearly even from several hundred li away.

“Is she trying to get herself killed?!”

Her ostentation left the old man and those behind him both alarmed and furious.

With such a huge disturbance, attracting some great demons was almost a certainty. It would bring disaster upon them all.

As she raced onward, her blood and qi circulated, and her full head of silver hair had already turned violet. Her aura changed drastically.

After setting her blood and qi in motion, Shi Lan immediately probed deeper into her body.

Deep inside her body, there was still a mass of Demon Emperor blood wrapped in the Black Domain. With Shi Lan’s current strength, she was still far from capable of refining it, but she could at least stir a trace of its aura.

In an instant, demonic qi surged into the sky, and a faint Emperor’s might spread across the surrounding wilderness. Some scattered demon race members on the ground immediately dropped to their knees, not daring to move in the slightest.

“That girl is a demon?!”

“Damn it, there’s actually a demon with such a high-level bloodline hiding in the Demon-Suppressing Army! How did she fool the Human Race Chronicle?!”

“Yu Hong mentioned before that this Shi Lan carried demon qi on her, but I never thought it was true. I actually failed to see it!” The old man’s expression grew grave, and he barked in a low voice:

“Hurry and chase her. If we delay any longer, we really may bring over a great demon!”

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Shi Lan’s speed did not diminish in the slightest, and there was no panic in her heart. She took some healing pills from her Qiankun Bracelet and stuffed them into her mouth to restore her vitality. At the same time, she thought over ways to survive and pulled up the Empress-raising System’s panel.

Shi Lan had not looked at the system for a long time. First, as her cultivation had risen, her desire for external things had lessened. Second, she had grown increasingly accustomed to relying on herself.

After all, cultivation gained by staking one’s life on the line was more reliable than anything else.

[Host: Shi Lan]

[Cultivation: late stage of the Heavenly Astral Realm]

[Root Bone: 9 (Innate Spiritual Body, once in a millennium)]

[Methods: Yuqing Creation Art (third layer), Vajra Divine Fist (major mastery), Jade Tempering Art (complete), Heaven Extremity Seal (beginner), Spirit-Burning Art (incomplete)]

[Divine Abilities: Heaven’s Eye Qi-Sight (three-star), Black Domain (seven-star), Howl at the Moon (five-star)]

[Strength Evaluation: modest accomplishments]

[Prestige: 1,976,758 (famous across one world)]

[World Coordinates: minor worlds 200, middle worlds 35, major worlds 4]

[Current Owned Worlds: minor world x1]

[Current Space-Time Coordinates: Lingyang Starfield, Lingyang Realm, Taishi Calendar Year 48927]

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After sweeping a glance over the system panel, Shi Lan directly entered the lottery section. Her prestige had surged enormously, nearing the two-million mark, but she had no time right now to investigate why.

She spent nearly all two million prestige points in one go and exchanged them for nineteen intermediate draws.

Shi Lan did not hesitate. She chose the item category and used all nineteen chances at once.

Magical artifacts and pills could not solve the current crisis. Only items might.

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a four-star item: Heavenly Thunder Bead.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a three-star item: Five Elements Talisman.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a five-star item: Soul-Extinguishing Nail.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a four-star item: Protective Jade Barrier.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a six-star item: Heaven-Sundering Talisman Sword.]

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A chain of prompts rang out in Shi Lan’s mind one after another. Before she could do anything, several figures appeared in the distance, demon clouds rolling around them. They were clearly several shape-shifted Demon Kings.

“Insolence! How dare you hunt down the Imperial Scion of our demon race here! Do you think this is Shenzhou?”

“Do not panic, Imperial Scion! We will help you cut down these arrogant vermin!”

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One heaven-shaking howl after another rang out, scattering the clouds on the horizon. The pressure of the Demon Emperor blood left these Demon Kings trembling with fear. Thinking they had encountered someone of Sovereign bloodline, they all moved to lend a hand.

Shi Lan ignored them and pressed straight ahead. She stopped burning her lifespan, then took out a talisman and crushed it. The talisman turned into a strand of clear light that wrapped around her completely and transformed into a streak of escape light, vanishing into the distance in an instant.

This was a five-star item, a Divine Movement Talisman, capable of moving a thousand li in an instant with ultimate speed.

In that brief span, her lifespan had almost run dry. She could not afford to consume any more.

Behind her, heaven and earth essence erupted violently, clearly indicating that a battle had broken out.

Half a quarter-hour later, the shape-shifted Demon Kings were badly wounded and defeated, fleeing in panic. After all, they were only at the Myriad Phenomena Realm and were no match for great cultivators of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Had the Yu family party not been unwilling to waste time in battle, those Demon Kings would not even have had the chance to flee.

The middle-aged man who had struck Shi Lan and gravely wounded her earlier frowned and said, “Should we keep chasing? If we do, we’ll probably enter the sphere of influence of Tianjue Hall.”

“There’s no need to be nervous. The Tianjue Demon Emperor was severely wounded by the headmaster of the Sacred Martial Immortal Sect in the starry skies beyond the domain, and most of his incarnations were cut down. He probably has no mind to care about these matters. The ones we need to watch out for are those Heaven Demons.”

The old man shook his head and let out another sneer.

“A demon has actually appeared inside the Demon-Suppressing Army. If those lofty Demon-Suppressing Generals were to learn of this, I wonder how they would feel.”

“This is good too. We needn’t fear the Demon-Suppressing Army coming to settle accounts afterward.”

“We’re helping them clean out their own house. They ought to be thanking us!”

The group relaxed inwardly. They had all come prepared to die, because no one could escape the reckoning of the Imperial Court. But now they saw a glimmer of survival and their spirits lifted.

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In only a short while, Shi Lan had already fled nearly one hundred thousand li with lightning speed.

Sensing that the auras behind her had vanished without a trace, Shi Lan descended from the sky, concealed her aura, and dropped into a dense forest. She urgently needed to regulate her breathing and recover.

Her physical state was now extremely bad. She had already suffered grievous injuries, and then she had burned away her life essence. She was close to withering away.

The clear light formed by the Divine Movement Talisman folded back in on itself and turned once more into the talisman. A fine crack had already appeared on the jade talisman.

She had barely been resting for less than half an hour when a wave of divine sense swept over her. A chill ran through Shi Lan’s whole body. Without the slightest hesitation, she shot up from the forest into the sky, activated the Divine Movement Talisman again, turned into a streak of clear light, and sped toward the horizon.

Boom!

The instant Shi Lan departed, the entire forest was flattened. Towering ancient trees were uprooted, and vegetation flew everywhere.

Hearing the commotion behind her, Shi Lan’s expression turned ugly.

Although one hundred thousand li was not all that far for great cultivators of the Nascent Soul Realm, the fact that these people could locate her hiding place with such precision meant they definitely had some method of determining her position.

This time, Shi Lan crossed over two hundred thousand li in one go. Along the way, she ran into several more shape-shifted Demon Kings, and even one great demon of the Nascent Soul Realm, all of whom helped delay her pursuers for a moment.

After stopping, Shi Lan took out several thousand spirit crystals from her Qiankun Bracelet and began inscribing array patterns expressionlessly.

Blindly fleeing would not solve the problem. She was going to bury every last one of these attackers in this demon domain!