Sensing a green escape light rapidly approaching from behind, enveloping a middle-aged man in green robes, radiating an aura of mid-Nascent Soul cultivation. Without guessing, it must be True Soul of Hundred(True Soul of Hundred: 百魂真人).
Actually, Zhang Ling was also harboring a bit of wishful thinking, wearing the Illusion Clay(Illusion Clay: 幻形泥) on his body, but it wasn't of much use at the moment. Because he had already been locked onto by True Soul of Hundred's spiritual sense, unless he escaped from this person's spiritual sense range.
Otherwise, even if the Illusion Clay had transformation abilities, it would only change his form.
And what's worse is that, due to urging the Black Bone Giant Claw to forcefully break the restriction just now, the spiritual power in his body is now less than 10%.
Zhang Ling didn't have time to consider other things, he sacrificed the Thunder Spirit Shuttle(Thunder Spirit Shuttle: 雷灵梭), and the Thunder Light Spell(Thunder Light Spell: 雷光咒) in his body stimulated the Thunder Spirit Power and injected it into it. A layer of thunder light enveloped him, turning him into a ray of thunder, rushing out at an extremely fast speed.
"Thunder Escape Technique(Thunder Escape Technique: 雷遁术)"
The green-robed True Soul of Hundred raised his eyebrows, patted the spirit beast bag(spirit beast bag: 灵兽袋) on his waist, and a black bird flew out. Its wings spread out to be more than ten feet long, its head was round and covered with black and yellow feathers, very much like an enlarged owl.
The black bird was exuding Corpse Aura(Corpse Aura: 尸煞之气), it was not a living creature but a Corpse Monster(Corpse Monster: 尸怪). Most of its body was a skeleton, with green fluorescent light jumping inside. Only the chest and abdomen above and the two wings were covered with feathers.
It looked a bit clumsy and comical, but the aura of this Night Owl Corpse Monster was comparable to an Rank 8 monster.
Noticing this scene, Zhang Ling's heart grew even colder. These Nascent Soul old monsters who can be the masters of a sect have quite a bit of foundation.
True Soul of Hundred let out a sharp scream, stood on the owl's back, and turned into a black wind, the speed suddenly increased by more than half. Although not as fast as Zhang Ling's Thunder Escape Technique, it was closely chasing after him.
Because he had already seen that the aura of the enemy ahead was unstable, even if he could use the Thunder Escape Technique, it wouldn't last long. Moreover, the enemy was only a Nascent Soul early stage cultivator. As long as he caught up, killing him would not be difficult.
After Zhang Ling cast the Thunder Escape Technique, he turned into a flash of thunder and crossed a distance of more than ten zhang(zhang: 丈), which was not much worse than teleportation. In a blink of an eye, he flew hundreds of miles away, and widened the distance from True Soul of Hundred a lot.
It can be said that he has escaped from the core area where the Hundred Soul Sect's mountain gate is located. No need to worry, the sect's Mountain Protection Array(Mountain Protection Array: 护山大阵) is open to trap him.
But Zhang Ling's face did not improve, but frowned. Because his Thunder Escape Technique relied on the Thunder Spirit Shuttle, and consumed the Thunder Light Spell condensed in his body.
However, the Thunder Light Spell he cultivated was only regarded as an auxiliary technique, and the gathered Thunder Spirit Power was not very strong, and it consumed a lot in a short period of time. At most, it can last for another quarter of an hour, and the Thunder Light Spell will be exhausted.
Of course, Xuan Gui also condensed some Thunder Spirit Power in his body by relying on the stone mirror that condenses Water Astral Divine Thunder(Water Astral Divine Thunder: 水罡神雷). But there is not much either, and it cannot last.
If True Soul of Hundred keeps chasing him, after his Thunder Spirit Power is exhausted, he will still be unable to avoid a battle.
Unfortunately, the states of him and Xuan Gui are not good now, and they don't have much confidence to fight hard against an old monster in the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
Zhang Ling thought in his heart, and fled all the way down.
In a blink of an eye, he flew over a thousand miles, and a black stone wall appeared in front of him, and the underground space had come to an end.
However, after releasing his spiritual sense to explore the surroundings, he found a huge crack not far away, going all the way up, seemingly leading to the ground.
Over there, you can still see some stone pillars, stone houses and other buildings, and you can also sense that there is a team of cultivators guarding there. Obviously they are also disciples of the Hundred Soul Sect.
Zhang Ling did not dare to delay, and quickly flew towards that side. He also found a layer of gray light curtain formed by Yin Qi.
Fortunately, it was not strong. Seven flying swords turned into sword lights, and combined into a cyan giant sword more than ten feet long in the air, and cut through the restriction light with one blow.
It caused a burst of loud noise, and countless soil and rocks collapsed. Several Golden Core cultivators came out to check the situation, but found nothing.
At the same time as Zhang Ling cut through the restriction, he flew out.
Before these cultivators could figure out what was going on, they heard a roar again, and a black shadow rushed over quickly. Several people immediately recognized that this was the sect's ancestor's ghost pet, and most of them looked surprised.
"Who are you, dare to break into my Hundred Soul Sect. Did Ghost Old Man and Ghost Old Woman also die at your hands." Zhang Ling went all the way up along the underground crack, and the voice of True Soul of Hundred questioning came from his ear.
"Hmph, you can't escape, if you surrender, this old man can give you a quick death."
True Soul of Hundred's voice kept ringing in his ear. Zhang Ling naturally ignored it and just flew with his head down.
Suddenly, his face lit up. The power of the spiritual sense extended upward detected the sky light outside, not far from the ground. But the Thunder Light Spell in his body was almost exhausted.
With a thought, the Thunder Spirit Shuttle in his hand sank into his sleeve robe. Hidden inside was a black gourd. A mini turtle was lying on the gourd, it was the shrunken Xuan Gui.
Xuan Gui opened his mouth and bit the Thunder Spirit Shuttle, and the emitted lightning turned into black and blue, covering Zhang Ling. From the outside, the thunder light on Zhang Ling's body only paused slightly, and there was not much change.
But the face of True Soul of Hundred, who was chasing closely behind, lit up. This subtle change was keenly felt under his powerful spiritual sense in the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
The thunder light on the enemy's body turned into Yin attribute thunder and lightning. Although he didn't know what was going on, it was very likely that the enemy's Thunder Escape Technique would not last long.
As long as he added more effort, he could catch up with the enemy. When the time comes, he will extract the soul and refine the soul, and he will naturally know the cause of death of Ghost Old Man and Ghost Old Woman.
Thinking of this, True Soul of Hundred also slapped his waist hard, and a cloud of blood light sank into the head of the owl under his feet. Suddenly, the owl screamed, and the speed increased sharply by another two points.
Zhang Ling is now extremely helpless and can only keep escaping.
In a moment, the top of his head lit up and he reached the ground. With a sweep of his spiritual sense, he found that the surroundings were a desolate Gobi Desert, with gullies and strange rocks everywhere.
The place where he flew out was an extremely long rift valley on the ground. It was not only opened up by the Hundred Soul Sect, but also naturally formed.
Zhang Ling had no time to consider where he was. As soon as he flew out of the underground rift valley, the five-color spiritual light on his body flashed, and several identical people appeared on the left and right sides. A total of six figures quickly overlapped, and flew out in all directions.
This is naturally the clone he transformed with the Water Bubble Ancient Treasure(Water Bubble Ancient Treasure: 水泡古宝), in the hope of interfering with the chasing True Soul of Hundred.
In the blink of an eye, True Soul of Hundred chased him out. Seeing this scene, he was also stunned, and then, as if thinking of something, a wooden tablet two fingers wide and one foot long appeared in his hand.
Many ghost heads were carved on the wooden tablet, like a ghost Dao magic weapon. A magic formula was cast on it, and the ghost head pattern on the wooden tablet lit up with green light. The wooden tablet was dyed emerald green, and then a vague skull emerged, a total of six skulls, exactly corresponding to the clone transformed by Zhang Ling, making a strange laugh.
But in an instant, the ghost cry stopped abruptly, and five skulls disappeared in a flash. Only one skull was left with green light flashing in its eyes, looking at the ground under its feet.
"Hmph, Earth Escape."
True Soul of Hundred understood something, his face was gloomy.
He grabbed the wooden tablet in his hand, and patted the gray bag on his waist, a cloud of Yin wind emerged, and turned into a huge rat the size of two zhang in front of him.
The rat was covered in gray and white Corpse Qi, also a Corpse Monster, but its aura was not strong, only around the middle stage of Golden Core.
With a thought from True Soul of Hundred, the giant rat landed on the ground with him, and then the Corpse Qi on the giant rat turned gray and yellow, and with a strange cry, two paws grabbed the ground and broke open a ground seam and drilled in.
He also cast the Earth Escape Technique to chase after him.
It may be a little difficult for other cultivators to chase this cunning kid.
But he is proficient in corpse refining techniques, and this giant rat is refined from a psychic demon corpse. The giant rat was a earth attribute monster before his death. For him, well-made strength is not much stronger. But the means of Earth Escape Technique has been retained.
There are many strange things about zombies and other corpse monsters, most of which are monsters formed by chance when corpses are psychic in Yin evil places.
But cultivators can also use secret methods to refine special zombies and use them as combat power. These are all high-level flesh and blood spirit puppets.
Their Hundred Soul Sect is proficient in this kind of secret method, and can refine five elements corpse according to the characteristics of the corpse, which has many wonderful uses.
……
Zhang Ling was indeed using the Earth Escape Technique to travel underground at the moment, and he sensed it at the same time as True Soul of Hundred also cast the Earth Escape Technique to dive underground to chase him.
His face naturally became more dignified, and he sighed in his heart. The five clones he transformed with Ancient Treasure(Ancient Treasure: 古宝) couldn't even delay for a while?
How could this be possible? It seems that this person may be proficient in secret methods to identify aura.
For Nascent Soul cultivators, even if they are not cultivating earth attribute techniques, it is not difficult to use Earth Escape Technique. It can be done through some means or treasures.
Earth Escape Technique is the easiest to master and the most widely used one among the five elements escape techniques.
But Zhang Ling had already made full preparations, first using clones to interfere, and then diving underground. It should be able to delay for a while, how could he be immediately detected where his real body is.
Unless this person used some secret method, or his spiritual sense was already comparable to a late Nascent Soul cultivator, it would be possible to see through his clone.
But even so, the probability is not high.
Zhang Ling thought quickly while escaping into the depths of the ground. Although his real body was seen through, traveling underground is still extremely beneficial to him.
Because he also saw that True Soul of Hundred did not cultivate earth attribute spiritual power. Even if he can use Earth Escape Technique with the help of external objects, he will not be as relaxed and comfortable as him.
On the contrary, if he leaves the ground and relies entirely on the Thunder Escape Technique that cannot last for long, he will be at a disadvantage.
Of course, relying solely on escape techniques, he can also use Blood Burning Escape(Blood Burning Escape: 燃血遁), which can increase the escape speed several times, and there is a good chance that he can escape.
But Blood Burning Escape is performed by burning blood essence. To escape the spiritual sense lock range of a mid-Nascent Soul by this method, you have to escape to one or two hundred miles away in one breath.
During this process, True Soul of Hundred is also chasing him. Even if it can be done in the end, the consumption is even greater. Too much loss of blood essence will damage the origin and cause irreparable injuries.
So unless it is absolutely necessary, Zhang Ling does not intend to use Blood Burning Escape.
Now relying on the advantage of the Earth Escape Technique, traveling underground, he is also gradually widening the distance from True Soul of Hundred. If he lasts long enough, he is also certain that he can escape the lock of this person's spiritual sense.
Although spiritual sense is infinitely useful, it will be greatly weakened in a tight environment like soil and stone.
Zhang Ling himself cultivated Nine Yuan Refining Spirit Technique(Nine Yuan Refining Spirit Technique: 九元炼神术), and his spiritual sense is much stronger than that of monks of the same rank, and is no less than that of a cultivator at the peak of the mid-Nascent Soul stage.
He fully released his spiritual sense, and could clearly explore the range of more than one hundred and sixty miles. But in the closed soil and stone, he can only explore a range of fifty or sixty miles at most.
True Soul of Hundred has mid stage strength, and his spiritual sense is basically the same.
As long as he is underground, widens the distance by sixty or seventy miles, and then uses Illusion Clay and other means, the chance of escape is not small.
It's just that his spiritual power is insufficient now, and all means are restricted. The spiritual power consumed by performing Earth Escape Technique is also a lot. That's all, it can be compensated by pills and spirit stones. Although there are some hidden dangers, it doesn't matter if it lasts for a while.
The only thing that worries Zhang Ling is that the means by which True Soul of Hundred saw through his real body are not certain.
If this person does not lock on him through spiritual sense, it will be troublesome.
There are some special secret methods that can indeed do this. Even if he escapes from this person's spiritual sense range, he can still be chased, which is the worst case.
Now it seems that the probability of this situation is not small. If he continues to be chased and killed like this and cannot recover, it will get worse and worse.
"Hee hee, I didn't expect you to have such an embarrassing time." A giggling voice came to his ears, it was Blue Sparrow's mocking voice.
Zhang Ling can't control this guy now and didn't answer.
"Why, are you in a bad mood? I want to say, do you know how the old man behind you is tracking you, how…" Before Blue Sparrow could finish his words, Zhang Ling's eyes lit up and he quickly asked. "Senior really has a way to get rid of the trouble behind me."
"Hmph, getting rid of the old man behind you... depends on yourself, I won't interfere. But he did use some kind of secret method to see through your real body and dive underground, but do you think this secret method can be sensed out of thin air? Most of them need a medium."
"Like blood essence, spiritual power, or magic weapon clothing and other things that are contaminated with your aura, use this as a medium to sense your existence. Or you have been planted with forbidden curses and other evil arts, but you have not fought with the old man just now, and this old man has no chance to get these things. Then it can only be that there is something on you that can be sensed by him, so I don't need to say more."
"Something, so that's it, thank you for your guidance."
Zhang Ling naturally knows what Blue Sparrow said. He instantly thought of the red coffin he had collected not long ago.
With a thought, the red coffin that had been put into the storage bracelet was taken out. Zhang Ling sprayed out a ball of yellowish essence without delay and covered the coffin.
At the same time, he activated the magic formula and cast a series of dense magic formulas into it. The coffin was wrapped in a thick layer of yellow light.
He was still not at ease, and threw out a section of vine, wrapping the red coffin layer upon layer. It turned into a huge vine cocoon exuding black air.
At the same time, a gust of cold wind came out of his sleeve, and the coffin was frozen into an ice lump. Xuan Gui ice sealed it again, and Zhang Ling was satisfied with putting the coffin into the Earth Yuan Gourd(Earth Yuan Gourd: 土元葫芦).
The only strange thing on him that has something to do with the Hundred Soul Sect is this red coffin.
After Zhang Ling put the red coffin into the Two Instruments Gourd(Two Instruments Gourd: 两仪葫芦), the face of True Soul of Hundred who was chasing behind him changed slightly.
