Chapter 413: Chaotic Entity Part 2 (1/2)

Chapter 413: Chaotic Entity (Part 2) [V5C120 – A Distance Within Reach]

Qianye’s recovery was obviously hastened after the purple blood energy’s restoration. He walked over to the big tree after a moment of rest and dug out a cavity with the Scarlet Edge, hoping to see what oddities lay within.

The trunk wasn’t sturdy at all—its cut-section was moist, and a viscous liquid quickly began to seep out. Qianye reached out to touch it and found that it was the same fluid from within the holes. But the unusual part was that Qianye could sense violent void origin power from within the liquid.

It would appear that this large tree was able to extract void origin power from the earth and supply them to the entities within the tree holes. It was precisely the violent and chaotic nature of the void origin power that had affected the gestated creatures, causing them to transform into such grotesque forms.

A process that would require a year or even several years to complete outside had been contracted to the extremes here.

Qianye continued on his way after further examination yielded no new discoveries. This time, he would carve a mark on a tree every ten meters or so to prevent himself from getting lost.

But Qianye suddenly heard a faint rustling through the air as though something was flying toward him from behind. Every little movement in this quiet forest was magnified—the sound seemed to be some distance away, but it was fairly hair-raising in this extreme silence.

Qianye immediately confirmed that the sound was true and not his hallucination. He thus flashed behind a big tree and hid himself instantaneously.

Moments later, a man actually appeared from the direction he had come from. An inexplicable peculiarity came over Qianye at the sight of a normal man appearing in such a crazy place.

The person stopped before a large tree and reached out to touch those meaningless lines. Qianye’s heart trembled as he realized this person must’ve followed these symbols.

His gaze fell upon the man’s clothes and equipment but found no indication of his identity from the outside. However, Qianye noticed the insignia of the Nangong family on an exposed corner of his holster as he began to glance at the surroundings after he had finished inspecting the symbol.

A Nangong family expert!

Qianye took the risk to scan the other party and actually found three origin power vortices—he was a rank-twelve champion. Qianye might not be able to prevail over this opponent even in his peak state, to speak nothing of his current physical condition.

Qianye immediately retracted his aura and slowly backed away. The senses suffered great interference within this forest, so it wouldn’t be easy to track him down as long as he could keep his distance.

However, he had just taken two steps back when the Nangong family expert turned toward him and shouted, “Who goes there?! Come out!”

Qianye was shocked, but he immediately noticed that the other party was able to follow him through the Black Forest with great accuracy just from the symbols he had left behind. This could no longer be explained as a mere coincidence. Apparently, this fellow had also gained the power of the Iron Curtain.

Qianye no longer made any attempt to conceal himself and shot up to flee at full speed.

The man’s eyes lit up when he saw Qianye. “It’s you! Haha, it seems coming in here wasn’t a complete waste of effort! Still trying to run?!”

He started running swiftly like an unbridled wild stallion and slowly began to close the gap. Originally, speed wasn’t his forte, but Qianye was heavily injured at the moment, and his movements were greatly affected.

“Brat, you can’t escape. I promise to spare your life if you stop now and listen to my instructions! Let’s leave this accursed place first.”

“Still not stopping? Do you really think this Master Nangong has no way to deal with you?”

“Hey, you’ll die if you waste origin power like that!”

Qianye’s heart was resolute no matter how the person behind him threatened or tempted him. He maintained the highest speed he could endure and ran frantically all the way. He suddenly thought of another problem during the chase, and that was whether there were predators in this forest.

Just how terrifying would the adult chaotic entities be if their new-borns were already rank five or six. And sound was the best way to sense prey within this incomparably silent forest.

As he ran, Qianye saw an intense, almost boiling origin power fluctuation in the distance. He immediately shifted his direction and ran toward it. Presently, the distance between Qianye and that Nangong champion had shrunk to an extremely dangerous point—whatever that thing in the distance was, it would make little difference compared to falling into hands of the Nangong.

Qianye heard a sudden increase in the running footsteps behind him and leapt forward instinctively without a second thought. A rumble ensued just as expected, followed by an origin bullet whizzing past Qianye. The bullet landed on a large tree and produced a bowl-sized defect with muddy fluids pouring out from within.

Nangong Jiancheng fired two more shots, but they were duly evaded by Qianye. The man couldn’t help but curse loudly, “To hell with it!” Presently, it would seem he had no other way but to chase all the way to the end.

As he was running, Qianye felt the ground beneath his feet turn soft—he looked down and found that one of his feet had sunk into the earth. Quite mysteriously, this ordinary-looking soil was actually a mere top layer, and the area below it was actually filled with sludge.

Qianye heard a plop behind him. Nangong Jiancheng had sunk almost to his knees before he leapt straight up and extricated himself. The man had also encountered a pothole—his was apparently even deeper, and being much less agile compared to Qianye, he had taken a small loss for no good reason.