Tainted will

In the sky high up in the clouds.

"Engulf." Feng Jin Bo uttered in a sinister tone.

Not a second later, the Jade Hut that was carrying Feng Jin Bo, Sima Bu, and Kai Ye started to tremble, then countless jade phantom waves appeared around the Jade Hut, these phantom waves raised the Jade Hut's speed by a huge margin.

Merely a breath later the Jade phantom waves rushed forward, engulfing Bai Ming.

Bai Ming suddenly felt a strong sense of pressure.

The jade waves were only phantom images, but he felt like he was confronting a catastrophic tsunami, he felt like a helpless ant that was about to be devoured by this tide!

'Truly an outstanding magical treasure!'

'True disciples are really hard to deal with.'

In the moment of danger, these two thoughts flashed across Bai Ming's mind.

Without the waves carrying them, the Jade Hut paused.

"The matter is settled." Feng Jin Bo smiled coldly as immense joy radiated in his eyes.

Kai Ye glanced at Feng Jin Bo, he looked at him in a different light, raising his opinion of him.

As it turned out, Feng Jin Bo had secretly collected information on Bai Ming and learned about his abilities, he knew what methods were suitable to deal with Bai Ming's capabilities.

On the surface, he was helping them to fly, but in fact, he was using them to obstruct Bai Ming while he secretly prepared the Jade Hut to launch a terrifying attack.

And now, Feng Jin Bo struck.

He had not taken action formerly, but once he did, it was a gigantic tsunami that even swallowed the heavens. It was even faster than the Self-Sword formation, it could not be stopped!

Bai Ming's superior-grade flying sword has been a lifesaver thus far, but against the phantom waves, it was ineffective, like dealing with Paradise flame beasts.

The phantom waves were already surrounding Bai Ming tightly, his room to maneuver became smaller, and the Flying Sword could not induce the desired damage right now.

"To think that this Feng Jin Bo who appeared to be hot-headed and impulsive on the surface, who knew he had such plans. I kept on instigating him secretly, but to think that he is even fooled me!" Kai Ye felt wariness towards Feng Jin Bo.

Sima Bu had a grim expression, as he observed the Jade Hut deteriorate at a frightening rate, even before Feng Jin Bo had used one of the Jade Hut's unique skills, the speed of destruction was quite fast but now it was on a whole new level.

Sima Bu let out a gloomy sigh, "This Jade Hut will be completely destroyed within the next 15 seconds, it's a bit unfortunate."

But very quickly he felt hot as a young maiden's image emerged in his mind. "I can finally have you rightfully as mine, Feng'er." then he did not take another look at the Jade Hut.

Once Feng Jin Bo attacked, Bai Ming was like a trapped beast.

"Haha, our victory is assured!"

The three Quasi-Yin-Yang cultivators had similar thoughts.

But Bai Ming laughed sinisterly "Huhuhu, little monkeys, why are you so foolish? You came to offer up your lives. In my opinion, those inner disciples are far smarter than you."

The three Cultivators looked and saw that Bai Ming did not evade, his hands were behind his back as he floated in the air, calm and composed. Even a bit of amusement was perfectly exhibited in his eyes.

The three Quasi-Yin-Yang cultivators' bodies shook, they cried out in their minds; 'Oh no! He is unfazed, is this the place where they are ambushing us?'

Bai Ming spoke again, "What's this treasure? It can actually rival my speed and even succeeded in giving me a hard time, but… can it break through our Heaven Sealing formation? Hehehe, I guess not."

These Jade phantom waves had incredible power and could take his life, but Bai Ming was unmoved as if this was not a life-threatening attack, but a gentle breeze instead.

He then dispelled the thin ward of spiritual essence protecting his body, then under the three cultivators' horrified gazes he healed all the injuries on his body in a flash, his face was the only exception.

'Damn it! This move uses almost all my spiritual essence, it has a strong attack but weak defense, if the other party attacks…' Feng Jin Bo felt his heart go cold, there was no time to think further, he subconsciously withdrew the Jade phantom waves to guard the Jade Hut.

The Jade phantom waves had already accumulated greatly and were a fatal attack, but with Feng Jin Bo withdrawing most of the waves, only a small portion was left to deal with Bai Ming, and a gap formed as Bai Ming made use of it.

"Farewell, monkeys!" Bai Ming activated the self-sword formation, flying in the sky like a burst of lightning, entering the green-copper regional wall.

The three Quasi-Yin-Yang cultivators were dumbfounded before feeling intense rage.

"This bastard is so crafty, he was putting up a front!"

"He was at his wits' end, but he acted in such a convincing manner. Let's chase him!"

The three cultivators were furious.

"Come on, let's go!" Kai Ye roared in anger, he looked the angriest.

"You guys go ahead by yourselves I'll follow behind you, the Jade Hut won't last much longer and my spiritual essence reserves have been fully depleted," as he spoke, Feng Jin Bo's expression turned uglier than a dead pig.

The other two quickly nodded their heads in understanding and darted toward the regional wall.

Feng Jin Bo's expression turned pale, and after staring blankly momentarily, he slapped himself before pursuing Bai Ming again.

It was such a good situation earlier, but he messed it up, how could there still be another chance?

Kai Ye and Sima Bu were just inches away from entering the core regional wall, at this moment Kai Ye transmitted a message to Sima Bu, "Brother Sima, once we enter the regional wall even though we are outnumbering him, he will still have greater movement speed than thus due to his low cultivation level. Hence, I say let the both of us..huh?"

Before Kai Ye could finish his sentence, he saw an ominous claw entirely made up of soul force dash out of the regional wall and penetrate Sima Bu's skull.

Sima Bu was caught off guard and was directly hit by Bai Ming's devil hand soul art.

Sima Bu immediately let out an anguished scream, his eyes momentarily blurred, blood dripped out of his seven orifices as his body fell down.

"Sima!" Feng Jin Bo roared anxiously, he squeezed out the last of his spiritual essence and safely caught Sima Bu.

Feng Jin Bo quickly inspected Sima Bu's body only then did his heart calm down somewhat.

'Thankfully he is not dead, but..his soul has taken quite a severe injury.' Feng Jin Bo was relieved but soon his heart burned with hatred, at this moment the malice in his heart for Bai Ming was unbelievably scary.

Kai Ye looked down at two of them and shouted, "Brother Feng, I'll give chase to him first, you take Brother Sima to safety."

Feng Jin Bo who was in deep thought, abruptly awoke when he heard this. He was about to agree but his eyes suddenly lit up and he loudly shouted;

"Wait! I am unable to move a muscle, you have to take us inside the regional wall, the Paradise Flame beasts are almost upon us."

"Fuck!" Kai Ye's face was unsightly, the more time they wasted here the further Bai Ming would get from them, he cursed in his heart and quickly dashed down and helped the two apprentice brothers enter the regional wall.

After they entered the regional wall, the inner disciples who were in the back quickly charged into the regional wall.

Then came the huge army of Paradise Flame beasts, but the beast army could only look on as no matter how aggressive they were they just simply could not pass into the regional wall. After letting out a few frustrated roars they turned around and left.

Bai Ming had survived narrowly, after entering the regional wall, he went deep into it.

Kai Ye was greatly troubled. His higher cultivation level was a burden here.

At this moment, he wished that he was just a peak spirit realm cultivator, even though the difference in resistance between the two was not much but it was still present, and not to forget Bai Ming had already gotten a head start.

The deeper they got into the regional wall, the greater the repulsive force, and the slower their speed became.

Soon, the cultivators were left in the dust by Bai Ming.

"This is an unforgivable humiliation, not only was his cultivation base lower than us, but he was also outnumbered and he wasn't even a hundred percent when we first met him, yet he managed to escape right under our noses, this is so infuriating!" The inner sect disciples felt deep shame.

But they did not know that if Bai Ming was at his peak state when facing them, these sentiments of humiliation and shame would have been the least of their worries. They'd be dead before they even knew what hit them.

Right now, even though Bai Ming had escaped with his life, his expression was grim.

'That Devil Hand soul art played a huge role in my success, even though I had to sacrifice a bit of my soul to scoop out the necessary soul essence it was a defining moment of this cat and mouse chase, I had to do it.'

After using his divine sense to constantly control the flying sword and to repeatedly setting up the self-sword formation, his mental energy had naturally depleted, that Devil Hand soul art needed a certain amount of soul force to display its might and the only way Bai Ming could achieve that was by burning his soul, even if he was in his peak state he could only use the Devil Hand soul art seven to eight times before running out soul energy, but this was a desperate time, and like the saying goes desperate times call for desperate measures. Bai Ming did what had to be done, there was no room for regrets.

And as for how bad the injury was, Bai Ming estimated that he would require at least a month before he could completely recover his soul strength.

'Anything can be sacrificed as long as I can live another day, as long as I am alive what can I not achieve? The journey to the top will not be a smooth one, there will surely be times when sacrifices are needed and I shall not hesitate to make these sacrifices.' Bai Ming smiled slightly as he reaffirmed his resolve.

The group of cultivators could not catch up to Bai Ming, but they were unwilling to give up.

"I don't believe that he can forever keep running!"

"He is already on his last legs, flying here consumes a lot of spiritual essence and not to mention that he had for some reason retracted his wings. I want to see if his foundation can match my own?"

Even though the cultivators were unwilling to see this, the reality was cruel.

Bai Ming had left them farther and farther behind, the difference in their cultivation base was more evident the further on went in. If Bai Ming could have used his beast wings inside the regional wall things would have been even smoother, but at the end of the day, beast wings still had the word beast in it, if Bai Ming were to use his beast wings inside the formation the repulsion force would be too great for him to handle.

After a few more minutes, the group of cultivators felt bitter, seeing Bai Ming getting farther away.

Eventually, Bai Ming left the investigative range of the Quasi-Yin-Yang cultivators, they could only depend on their luck now.

The cultivators chased until some people could no longer take it, they chose to give up, leaving the regional wall.

"So unlucky! I actually encountered such a person!"

"We know nothing about this person's identity, it is unknown as to why the paradise flames Beasts were even chasing him in the first place, but we can only blame our bad luck for meeting such a cunning person."

Feng Jin Bo and Sima Bu conversed weakly, both of them had suffered much in this whole chase.

Only Kai Ye was not talking, he slowly approached the two worn-out apprentice brothers.

"Brother Kai, that man has already gone, this matter has so many issues, we should leave first and then discuss it."

Feng Jin Bo said in an exhausted voice as he supported Sima Bu to turn around and leave the regional wall.

"Of course," Kai Ye replied with an understanding look, but as soon as the both of them turned around an ominous light flickered in his eyes.

Swoosh Swoosh!

Warm blood splashed and a second later two heads rolled in the air.

Just like Bai Ming had said before, be it friendship or enmity both were formed on a person's motives of interest.

The reason for Feng Jin Bo and Sima Bu's downfall was their excessive trust in the agreement methods they had previously set up with Kai Ye, in this world nothing was omnipotent every method technique and its own weakness.

Thirty minutes later.

A miserable figure penetrated the green-copper regional wall and entered the core area.

"I am finally in the core area." It was Bai Ming, he was filled with fatigue because the cultivators were pursuing him, Bai Ming had to travel in the regional wall.

Thus, he took a long detour and consumed almost all of his spiritual essence, there was just about 1% of his spiritual essence remaining.

There were no injuries on his body, but the injury to his soul was the main problem.

But these were not important.

The important thing is he is right now in the most dangerous area of the Mystic realm!

And he is currently in the weakest state possible, ever since the chase began Bai Ming was having a bad feeling and now even after escaping with his life, Bai Ming's bad feeling was only getting deeper.

"Whatever, at least I'm safe for the time being. Now let's quickly find a suitable place for recuperation." Bai Ming unfurled his wings and took off.