Chapter 38 Pursuit by the Demons (2/2)

There was no way that Nanhong Yechang was going to just watch as Lu Tianzi escaped.

”Capture him.”

Nanhong Yechang gave the order and countless demons immediately gave chase!

All those that moved were demon martial artists at the Essence Building realm. As for those who had already broken through to the Essence Condensation realm, they simply disdained to lead the pursuit of a mere Essence Building realm opponent.

Instead, they calmly followed along behind, intending to only arrive to handle the prisoner after their subordinates did the capturing part for them.

It was just a Peak Essence Building realm martial artist, so what could go wrong?

”Tch!” Lu Tianzi clicked his tongue in irritation after realising that there were multiple demons hot on his tail.

But there was nothing he could do about it other than to continue running.

As Nanhong Yechang expected, even though Lu Tianzi was able to easily crush any opponent at the Essence Building realm, facing dozens of them at the same time was still too much for the current him.

All he could do was to keep running and pray that the other party would eventually give up on the chase!

But their Captain Nanhong Yechang had already personally ordered for Lu Tianzi's capture, so how would the demons dare to give up?

Even if they had to push themselves to the very limit, they still had to carry out the order!

After all ,if they were to return empty handed, the demons knew exactly what kind of gruesome fate would be awaiting them!

One ran, while the others pursued.

Just like this, they covered a huge distance in this lethal game of tag.

The darkness of the night and the dense vegetation in the forest did not serve to deter either side as the involved parties continued with no hesitation, wildly sweeping out their perception so that they would not lose track of each other.

Martial artists at their level had a terrifying amount of stamina.

Even if they had to run all night in order to achieve their objective, it would not be a problem for them at all.

However, there was one other factor that quickly came into play.

Lu Tianzi was exceptional even amongst Peak Essence Building realm martial artists, and his speed was something that not everyone would be able to match.

As the pursuit continued into the night, the group of demon martial artists in pursuit slowly started to spread out as each of these individuals were capable of maintaining different speeds.

The slower demon martial artists gradually fell behind while the fastest ones even started to slowly but steadily close the distance to Lu Tianzi!

While the demon martial artists had their perceptions locked onto Lu Tianzi, Lu Tianzi similarly had his perception sweeping out behind him, and he started to realise the existence of this situation that arose due to the demons martial artists' varying speed.

With that in mind, Lu Tianzi quickly formulated a plan in his head.

After all, he had also noticed that some of the demon martial artists were slowly catching up to him. It would be unlikely for him to escape this situation even if he continued to run.

If so, then he would just have to fight back!

Just as the fastest demon martial artist was about to reach him, Lu Tianzi slammed both of his feet down into the ground, coming to a abrupt stop.

After bending his knees like a tightly wound up spring, Lu Tianzi suddenly erupted with a powerful burst of speed as he kicked out from the ground with all his might!

He drew his sword, slashing out mercilessly at the approaching demon martial artist!

A cold light flashed in Lu Tianzi's eyes as he drew upon the Spiritual Essence within his inner world. A thin film enveloped the entire blade as Lu Tianzi was determined to end this as soon as possible, before the others had a chance to catch up.

The fastest demon martial artist was completely caught by surprise as he saw Lu Tianzi switch from escaping mode to attacking mode within a single instant, his face turning ashen as he watched the sword approach at an unthinkable speed.

If he were the one to capture Lu Tianzi, then what kind of recognition would Captain Nanhong Yechang bestow upon him?

That was the thought that had completely occupied his thoughts as he found himself drawing nearer and nearer towards Lu Tianzi.

But who knew that at this moment, his prey would suddenly turn on him?

This demon was a martial artist at the Peak Essence Building realm. Yet in order to catch up to Lu Tianzi, this demon martial artist was still forced to invest almost all of his strength into maintaining this top speed.

He had been absolutely sure that under the pursuit of so many demons, there was simply no way that Lu Tianzi would stand a chance, and nobody in such a situation would be foolish enough to stand and fight.

Thus, he had only left a tiny bit of his strength for his defence, and that was to be his downfall.

The demon hurriedly brought up his twin daggers to block the attack, but upon contact with Lu Tianzi's sword, his defence was blown away in an instant!

Not to mention his haphazard defence, even if the demon had been completely ready, there was still no way for him to withstand Lu Tianzi's attack that had called upon the power of materialised Spiritual Essence!

This was a level of power that had already exceeded the Essence Building realm!

After blowing away the demon's defence, Lu Tianzi's sword continued unimpeded in its path.

The helpless demon could only watch on in horror as the blade headed straight towards his neck.

Slash-!

In a single clean strike, Lu Tianzi had directly decapitated the demon martial artist who was at the Peak Essence Building realm!