Chapter 1049: During the Escape (1/2)

Qianye was walking carefully through a thorny undergrowth with his aura retracted. In what seemed like empty air, there were actually wisps of barely discernible black energy floating about. These wisps—as fine as strands of hair—were floating about aimlessly and completely harmless when touched. Qianye, however, knew that these wisps of energy were formed of the Demoness’ demonic energy and were a part of her domain. She would be alerted instantly if he were to touch them by accident.

After some thought, Qianye figured out that these black threads weren’t without a solution. He had seen a small beast fly past, breaking several of the threads without any response from the demonic energy.

It would seem that this domain was intricately controlled, and she would judge whether the target was man or beast depending on the reaction.

Qianye stretched out a finger and tried approaching one of the demonic threads. The thread started to react when his fingertip was within a certain range, and flew over like a swimming fish. When Qianye cut off his external origin power, the demonic thread went back to floating about aimlessly.

Qianye had figured it out—these threads not only served as a warning trap that would send signals to the Demoness, but they were also quite sensitive to daybreak origin power and would seek out the owner proactively.

Such a technique was almost indefensible. If it wasn’t for Qianye discovering them with his True Sight, he would never figure out how he was found out by the Demoness.

Qianye was in no rush to leave, however. He channeled a bit of his blood energy and released it. Unexpectedly, all the demonic threads within ten meters began moving the moment his blood energy was released. Dozens of them swarmed over like sharks that had smelled blood.

This time, Qianye didn’t retract his blood energy and simply allowed the threads to crash into his finger, observing their reaction.

The demonic threads stirred up a fierce reaction after shooting into the blood energy, emitting numerous tiny sparks. The small demonic threads were quickly incinerated by the dark golden blood energy, but their reaction was also quite fierce. They weren't quite at a disadvantage in the contest and would bring down with them an equal amount of dark golden blood energy.

Qianye had never imagined that the demonic threads would be so much more sensitive to blood energy than to daybreak origin power. Apparently, the Demoness either attached great importance to the vampires or it was as he had previously learned—demonic energy and blood energy would attack each other fiercely after reaching a certain level. The conflict between them was even stronger than that between darkness and daybreak origin powers. It was as though only one of them could exist.

There was no telling whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that these threads were so sensitive to blood energy.

Qianye retracted his aura immediately after the test. He was suddenly overcome by a bad feeling as he thought of something. Apart from Edward, there was probably no one else who possessed a high enough blood energy to elicit a reaction from the demonic threads. If that was the case, the Demoness had probably figured out his location and was heading over at full speed.

At the thought of this, Qianye’s figure flickered and vanished immediately. He had used Spatial Flash.

His silhouette had just disappeared when several dark ribbons appeared where he was standing. They weaved together and immediately slashed the space there into dozens of fragments. Qianye would have been in a frantic situation if he were still there.

The Demoness’s figure appeared in the air. “Humph, you do run quite fast.”

In the span of a breath, experts like Anwen, Edward, and Basil also arrived. They kept silent after seeing that the Demoness had failed to overrun Qianye. Her bad temper was notorious. Add to that her peerless combat capabilities, everyone who offended her would meet horrible ends.

Now that Qianye had escaped under her nose, one could easily guess her current mood.

The Demoness said faintly, “He can’t run for long, I’ve already found him.”

Her voice hadn’t even trailed off when her figure disappeared. Anwen followed the trail of demonic energy in the air to chase after her.

The Evernight experts moved like a flash of lightning. After traveling dozens of kilometers in a flash, they saw the Demoness standing quietly in the sky. Apparently, Qianye had escaped yet again.

Actually, this was quite normal because Qianye’s Spatial Flash was unrivaled in escape. Although Spatial Flash wasn’t the only one of its kind, it possessed a suppressive advantage over the others in terms of distance and drain. That was also the reason why Qianye could contend with the Demoness by relying on it.

This time, the Demoness didn’t say anything. After standing there for a while, she pointed in a certain direction and vanished in the form of a black ribbon.

Soon, they saw the Demoness in the air again. The group formed a tacit understanding to wait quietly for her to catch Qianye’s traces.

The Demoness didn’t disappoint them, either. She managed to lock onto Qianye’s position in the span a few breaths and chased after him.

It was a failure again.

At this point, Edward and the other experts were beginning to notice that it was taking longer and longer for the Demoness to find Qianye. This proved that she was slowly losing track of him, or maybe Qianye had found a way to deal with her power.