Chapter 568: Life on the Run

Meanwhile.

Countless kilometers behind Han Li, a ball of radiant golden light that was around an acre in size was racing through the air at an extraordinary speed amid a deafening rumbling noise.

Encompassed within the ball of golden light was an enormous golden beetle that was flapping its wings with all its might.

This was none other than the High Zenith Stage Gold Devouring Immortal, and at this moment, there was a hint of surprise on its face.

It could sense that its target was only at the Golden Immortal Stage, but they were extremely fast. Granted, it was still faster, but its target was somehow traveling at speeds superior even to what the average High Zenith Stage true spirit was capable of reaching.

Immediately thereafter, it stopped cold in its tracks as a perplexed look appeared on its face.

All of a sudden, it was no longer able to sense its target anymore!

This was the exact same thing that had happened last time back at the Dark Star Canyon, and while it had been recovering from its injuries, there were also several occasions where its target's aura had disappeared, just like what had happened just now.

After a brief moment of contemplation, it continued to travel in the same direction as before.

Around three hours later, its target's aura reappeared, but this time, it was in another direction, and it was quite a bit further away.

The High Zenith Stage Gold Devouring Immortal gave a cold harrumph upon sensing this, but it wasn't overly concerned as it turned to set off in that direction.

......

In the sky above a mountain range, the green flying carriage was racing along.

Jin Tong seemed to have just come out of Xiao Bai's body, and her complexion was quite pale, while her breathing was also a little ragged. As for Xiao Bai, it was hanging its head in a glum fashion.

Han Li's brows furrowed slightly at the sight of Jin Tong's terrible condition, and he swept a sleeve through the air to release a pile of spirit treasures, all of which seemed to be of quite a high caliber.

Jin Tong sat down on the flying carriage in silence, then picked up a spirit treasure before stuffing it into her mouth.

Xiao Bai really wanted to join in on the feast as well, but it knew that Jin Tong needed the sustenance more than right now, so it suppressed its appetite and laid down onto the carriage.

Right at this moment, a golden storage ring fell onto the ground in front of it, and Han Li's voice rang out beside its ears.

"Xiao Bai, you have something to eat as well."

"Thank you, Master!" Xiao Bai immediately rose up onto its haunches before gulping down the storage bracelet, while Han Li sat down with his legs crossed once again to focus on piloting the carriage.

Now that Jin Tong was no longer concealed, he didn't bother to change directions and merely continued onward at full speed.

Over two hours later, Jin Tong rose to her feet and her complexion had already completely recovered at this point.

Han Li immediately instructed Jin Tong to hide in Xiao Bai's stomach once again before changing directions a second time.

The High Zenith Stage Gold Devouring Immortal was furious to discover that its target's aura had disappeared again.

Whenever this happened, its target would be able to open up some distance between them, and that was naturally very frustrating to the Gold Devouring Immortal, but it had no choice but to keep going.

Three hours later, Jin Tong's aura reappeared, and sure enough, she had changed directions and was once again very far away, ensuring that she was constantly out of reach.

However, the Gold Devouring Immortal had already calmed down at this point.

It had become apparent to it that its target was somehow able to periodically conceal their aura at set intervals, but as long as its target couldn't do this for extended periods of time, they would never be able to get out of its sensory range.

Sure enough, over the next few months, the Gold Devouring Immortal was still unable to catch its target, but nor was its target able to shake it off their trail.

Just like before, its target's aura would periodically disappear, and by the time it re-emerged, it would be in another direction, quite far away.

As a result, even though the Gold Devouring Immortal was far faster than its target, it was being led on a wild goose chase, rendering it completely passive, which was naturally very infuriating, but there wasn't anything that it could do.

......

The green flying carriage was racing through the sky above a lush forest, and Han Li was looking a little more relaxed as he piloted the carriage.

As long as he could maintain the status quo, the Gold Devouring Immortal wouldn't be able to catch them. Even though this was very taxing on his Immortal Origin Stone reserves, fortunately, he was extremely wealthy at this point, and theoretically, he could keep this up for about three more decades.

In his mind, surely the Gold Devouring Immortal was bound to give up at some point.

The only problem was that as they ventured deeper into the primordial land, everything was very unfamiliar to them, and they had already been attacked by primordial beasts on countless occasions. Even though they had managed to weather all of those storms, this was clearly not a sustainable strategy.

The deeper they ventured into the primordial land, the more at risk they would be.

At this moment, Jin Tong was crunching on a spirit treasure, while Xiao Bai was resting off the side with its eyes closed.

Right at this moment, a hideous screeching sound rang out from the dense forest down below, and just that sound alone was enough to send a burst of sharp pain spearing into Han Li's soul.

He hurriedly rose to his feet, just in time to see a massive gray shadow rising up from the forest down below, and it wasn't much slower than the carriage.

Han Li immediately activated his Brightsight Spirit Eyes, upon which he was able to identify the gray shadow as an enormous gray bird with a fleshy black comb on its head. As opposed to feathers, the bird had a layer of short gray fur clinging tightly to its skin, giving it an unsightly appearance.

At the same time, it was giving off a tremendous aura that indicated that it was at the pinnacle of the Golden Immortal Stage.

Han Li had no interest in getting caught up in a battle against such a formidable primordial beast, and he immediately swept a sleeve through the air to release a small white flag, which swelled to several thousand feet in size before unfurling itself to reveal a sea of clouds.

This was one of the immortal treasures that Han Li had secured from Gongshu Jiu.

The sea of clouds etched onto the flag began to glow with spiritual light, and a boundless expanse of white mist instantly surged out of the flag before descending toward the gray bird.

The giant gray bird screeched as the comb on its head lit up with dazzling gray radiance, following which it flapped its wings vigorously, releasing a gust of gray wind that transformed into a formidable gray tornado.

The gray tornado was giving off hints of law power fluctuations, it tore through the sea of clouds with ease, then swept directly toward the flying carriage.

At the same time, countless massive blades of gray wind appeared within the tornado, and it was clear that these were no ordinary blades of wind.

Han Li hurriedly made a hand seal to bring the flying carriage to halt, then swept a sleeve through the air to release three yellow badges, which appeared in front, to the left, and to the right of the flying carriage.

Waves of yellow light surged out of the three badges, forming a thick yellow light barrier around the flying carriage.

As soon as the yellow light barrier took shape, it was instantly ravaged by the barrage of countless gray blades of wind, causing it to ripple incessantly, but ultimately, it was able to keep the blades of wind at bay.

Not only that, but the yellow light barrier was even able to repel some of the blades of wind, sending them hurtling back toward the gray bird, which immediately took evasive measures, seemingly quite wary of the blades of wind.

At the same time, Han Li opened his mouth to release a burst of azure light that flew into the white flag, and another cloud of mist instantly surged out of the flag before taking on the form of seven or eight dragons that wrapped themselves around the giant gray bird in a flash.

These misty dragons were imbued with a great deal of immortal spiritual power from Han Li, and they were able to temporarily restrain the gray bird.

However, instead of taking advantage of this opportunity to try and slay the bird, Han Li immediately made a hand seal to send the flying carriage racing around the giant gray bird as a streak of green light.

A few moments later, a loud thump rang out from behind the carriage, and the gray bird had struggled free from the misty dragons before setting off in pursuit of the carriage once again.

Han Li paid no heed to it as he continued to pilot the carriage onward, and it didn't take long before the gray bird was left far behind.

After shaking off the gray bird, Han Li heaved a faint sigh of relief, then stowed the white flag and yellow badges away.

No more than two hours later, a burst of buzzing rang out from up ahead, and a massive purple cloud erupted out of the forest down below before sweeping toward the flying carriage.

Han Li focused his gaze on the purple cloud to discover that it was a swarm of countless purple hornets, each of which was the size of a millstone.

They had sword-like hooked stingers that were glowing blue trailing along behind them clearly indicating that they were filled with extremely potent poison.

Han Li summoned those three yellow badges to protect the flying carriage once again upon seeing this.

At the same time, he swept a sleeve through the air to summon a large crimson flag, which released a vast expanse of flames to create a sea of fire around the carriage, which continued to speed directly toward the swarm of purple hornets without pause.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

In the end, the carriage was only able to fly out of the swarm of hornets after a struggle that lasted close to two hours.

At this point, Han Li was growing more and more concerned.

As they continued onward, they encountered more and more obstacles, to the point that they had to endure up to several dozen attacks from primordial beasts and various primordial tribes every single day.

Fortunately, Han Li was very well prepared, so he was able to weather those storms just fine, but their speed had been significantly hampered by these obstructions.

What was even more concerning to him was that the Gold Devouring Immortal didn't seem to be having the same problem. According to Jin Tong, no primordial beasts or tribes dared to attack it thanks to its tremendous power and formidable aura.

There wasn't anything that Han Li could do aside from continue to forge ahead, but despite his best efforts, the distance between them and the Gold Devouring Immortal was only continuing to shrink.