Chapter 38 Pursuit by the Demons (1/2)

When Lu TIanzi finally opened his eyes after exiting the meditative state, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

It was far too quiet.

Before this, drumming had reverberated throughout the fortress and demons could be heard shouting and rushing towards the Northern Gate. That chaos was exactly what gave Lu Tianzi the freedom to act as he pleased and search for the Treasury.

While challenging the wind barrier, the angry howling of the winds constantly assaulted his ears. At that time, he had no clue as to what the situation outside was like.

Now that Lu Tianzi had broken through the wind barrier and consolidated his cultivation, he finally had the time to appreciate his surroundings once more.

It had already been more than half an hour since he entered the Shadowfront Fortress. During this time, all that Lu Tianzi managed to obtain was a mysterious red pearl, but Lu Tianzi still decided that it was time to leave.

After all, he only managed to obtain the location of the Treasury from the demon through the Heaven's Oath, so even if he wanted to continue looking for resources, he would not know where to even start.

If he really had to slowly search through the fortress room by room, then it would be a wonder for him not to be discovered!

Lu Tianzi could only curse his luck that this so-called Treasury did not contain items that he was looking forward to obtain, especially Essence Stones that he needed so desperately for his cultivation.

But looking at the mysterious red pearl in his hands, Lu Tianzi could not help but feel a sense of trepidation in his heart. He had no doubt that there was definitely more to the red pearl than he understood.

Carefully hiding the mysterious red pearl into his clothes, he promptly left the room without even bothering to hide the corpses of the two demon guards.

As if the fortress was completely deserted, Lu Tianzi did not spot any other demons along the way, even up till when he finally reached the small room that led to the side door out of the fortress.

Lu Tianzi felt that it was somewhat strange, but he was not intending to spend time investigating the matter. If he really wanted to, he could slowly think about it after he returned to the safety of the wilderness.

Safety of the wilderness…

He mused silently in his heart upon thinking about this.

Lu Tianzi never thought that there would ever come a day when he would consider the wilderness as safety grounds. But compared to the danger of remaining within the demons' fortress, it truly was much safer in comparison!

He took a quick look behind the door and felt more relieved upon realising that the two demon corpses from before were still tucked neatly in hiding.

Not wanting to waste anymore time, Lu Tianzi opened the door and sped out of the fortress, heading straight for the shadows of the forest.

As for what happened to the assault party that attacked the fortress, Lu Tianzi had no intention of checking it out.

The last thing he wanted right now was to risk being caught up in a chaotic battle where he could lose his life at any moment!

However, Lu Tianzi could roughly surmise that since the assault party dared to launch a direct assault on the fortress defence, they must have some sort of plan to lead the demon defence troops into a trap.

In that case, the assault party should be able to draw enough attention to buy time for Lu Tianzi to escape far enough before the demons realised what he did!

Little did he know that the assault party had immediately retreated after launching a quick surprise attack to take down a few sentries on the fortress wall, not at all intending to engage the demons in an all-out battle.

What leading the demon defence troops into a trap?

There was no such thing at all, and thus the assault party were definitely not going to be able to draw the attention needed to buy time for Lu Tianzi's escape.

The assault party was far too decisive in their actions this time, retreating immediately after striking just once, and thus the pursuing demons simply had no way of finding them.

At this moment, the demon defence troops had already given up on chasing after the shadows of the assault party, and were slowly heading back towards the Shadowfront Fortress, right in Lu Tianzi's direction!

Lu Tianzi never expected that barely after leaving the perimeters of the Shadowfront Fortress, he would once again encounter another group of demons!

And this was not a small group of demons wandering in the wilds.

There were dozens of them, if not a hundred, or even more than that!

Lu Tianzi's heart turned cold and immediately slammed his foot down in front of him, digging into the ground as he skidded to a complete stop.

However, such an action was far too conspicuous, and there was simply no way for the demons not to notice.

If Lu Tianzi was able to detect the group of demons, then they were naturally able to detect him as well. On top of that, within the group were a few demons at the Essence Condensation realm!

These demons had a perception strength that even exceeded that of Lu Tianzi!

”Who is there?!” a demon bellowed as the entire group turned in his direction.

Lu Tianzi frowned deeply upon sensing countless demons sweeping their perception over him.

He naturally would not answer the question. Without hesitation, Lu Tianzi sprinted off in another direction, trying to escape as quickly as he could!

He knew that there was simply no way for him to survive if he were to be caught by this group of demons!

”Peak Essence Building realm?” a calm voice sounded out from a demon in the centre of the group.

This demon was Captain Nanhong Yechang, leader of the group and also one of the six main guardians of Shadowfront Fortress, directly under the command of General Nanbai Zhaoyu.

He stood tall with sharp facial features and sported a short beard. His muscular body matched his stoic face well, giving off a commanding aura with just his presence alone.

With a quick sweep of his perception, Nanhong Yechang had already determined Lu Tianzi's current cultivation realm. Considering that Lu Tianzi had not even broken into the Essence Condensation realm, he naturally was not too worried.

After all, including him, there were multiple Essence Condensation realm martial artists in their group.

Even discounting them, there were still dozens of demons at the Essence Building realm. There was simply no way that a single human martial artist would be able to fend off the continuous attacks of dozens of opponents at the same cultivation realm!

But at the same time, he did not overlook the fact that Lu Tianzi had come from the direction of the fortress.