Chapter 54: Jungle Hunting

  Thousands of miles away, Xiao Fan fell to the ground, stumbled, almost fell over, put away his flying knife, looked back at his body, exhaled a breath, and whispered: "Good luck, I didn't expect this Yang City Lord to think so highly of me, sending a condensed spirit realm expert to deal with me. Fortunately, I ran fast."

  Six Spirit Swords, with the divine sword, the sword flies, this is Xiao Fan's fastest speed, but it can't last long, as the spiritual power consumed by the divine sword is too great, and with Xiao Fan's current spiritual power level, he can only support a moment of time.

  "We'd better run a bit further, or else that guy will catch up with us before long." Xiao Fan muttered to himself as he continued to sprint forward.

  The opponent uses the strong and condensed cultivation of the Cong Shen realm to fly through the air, although the explosive speed is not as fast as Xiao Fan's flying knife, but it has the advantage of being able to last for a long time, and can catch up in no time.

  Just after Xiao Fan left, Yang Jianyu came floating in the air, looking at the footprints on the ground, and sneered: "If you can keep flying with your sword all the time, I really won't be able to catch up with you. But since you're running, then wait for death." After speaking, he continued to float in the air, chasing after Xiao Fan's footsteps with a cold smile.

  Yang Jian flew through the air with his hands behind his back, his face carrying a sinister expression. He chased after Xiao Fan's footsteps into a dense forest and continued for several miles before realizing that Xiao Fan's footprints had vanished from the ground.

  "Damn it, I've been played by this kid." He stood on the ground, not knowing which direction to chase after, but unwilling to return.

  "He's just a trivial cultivator of the Void Refining stage, even if he's extremely fast, it's impossible for him to run too far." Yang Jian sneered, closing his eyes as his powerful divine sense in the late stages of the Concentrated Mind Realm spread out and began searching for Xiao Fan's whereabouts.

  "Hmm, how come he still can't be found? Could it be that this kid knows the art of concealment? Damn it!" A moment later, Yang Jian's divine sense expanded to its limits, almost searching the entire area within a one-mile radius, but he couldn't find Xiao Fan's aura, and he couldn't help but curse loudly.

  "In that case, we can only send people to search in a carpet-like manner. I don't believe he can fly out of this forest." Yang Jian sneered and spread his divine sense outward, arriving at the front of his subordinates who had been chasing after him from behind, transmitting his voice through the air; "Have everyone conduct a carpet-like search of this forest, one person go back to report to the city master, send more people to surround this forest."

  "Yes."

  The captain of the Blood Guard responded loudly, then shouted to his dozens of subordinates: "Zhang San go back and report to the city master, others in pairs search this forest in a carpet-like manner, find it after rocket signal notification other people."

  "Yes."

  The Blood Guards were the elite troops carefully trained by the Lord of Yangcheng, similar to modern special forces. They had extremely high military quality and with one order, everyone quickly formed a queue, in pairs of two, conducting a carpet search of this forest.

  At this moment, Xiao Fan did not know that Yang Jian had ordered his men to conduct a carpet search of the entire forest. He was lying on a big tree, patting his chest with lingering fear: "It's really narrow, almost got caught, luckily that guy is quite stupid and doesn't know I'm walking from the tree, but this Introspection Technique is really useful, it actually made him unable to find my breath."

  Xiao Fan, although lacking in Jianghu experience, had read many books and had some understanding of this situation. After running wildly on the ground for a while, he changed direction to climb up a tree, where he simultaneously focused his mind and hastily cultivated the "Introspection Technique", one of the San Yue's inherited skills, which allowed him to conceal his breath and evade Yang Jian's divine sense search, narrowly escaping disaster.

  "It seems that some of the legacies of the Three Absolutes are still useful to me, I should find some time to cultivate them properly." Xiao Fan thought to himself.

  "However, I'm afraid the master of Yangcheng won't give up on pursuing me to kill me, especially that expert in the Condensing Spirit realm, he might have caught up already. I'd better run a bit further first."

  While thinking, Xiao Fan was like a monkey, quickly and agilely jumping on the tree.

  Xiao Fan stopped after walking tens of miles into the deep mountains, and saw him sitting on a big tree, gnawing at a wild fruit that had just been picked, with a very frustrated look, "Damn it, I actually got lost, don't know how to go next."

  Xiao Fan ran wildly for a while, only to find himself embarrassingly lost. He couldn't tell which direction he had entered the forest from or how to leave, and if he continued to rush around like a headless fly, he would probably end up delivering himself to those who were trying to kill him, at which point it would be too late for regrets.

  Xiao Fan poured out his spiritual power with all his might, and Xiao Fan found that with the intensity of his spiritual power, he could radiate a range of three miles around him. In other words, everything within a radius of three miles was within his perception.

  The spiritual power of perception and the cultivator's divine consciousness have a similar effect. After the cultivator reaches the state of concentrated spirit, they can condense their primordial spirit inside their body, project their divine consciousness outside, observe everything around them, and not only can their divine consciousness 'see' everything around them, but also hear everything around them. Moreover, they can also transmit sound with their divine consciousness. Similarly, as long as the spiritual power is strong enough, one can achieve all of this.

  Xiao Fan's current spiritual power can sense everything within a radius of three miles, but he has no way to transmit sound.

  "Not seeing the appearance of humans, it seems that the situation is not particularly bad, I can use this time to cultivate one or two secret techniques to deal with the upcoming danger." Xiao Fan knew that the opponent would definitely not give up on killing him, so now he wanted to do was to enhance his self-defense capabilities before the opponent appeared.

  "Now that I have the yuan force, I should first cultivate a light skill secret method." Xiao Fan searched through the inheritance in his mind and found a lowest-level light body skill method among the three absolute upper people's inherited skills for him to cultivate when he was in the Deviant Realm, named "Treading Snow Without A Trace".

  "Not bad, with this 'Treading Snow Without a Trace' light body skill, even if I cultivate it to the highest level, those strong experts who can fly in the air with their minds condensed won't be able to catch up. This is exactly what I need."

  Xiao Fan smiled slightly and began to comprehend on the spot.

  When a person is focused on doing something, time always passes quickly, and before you know it, a whole day has passed.

  "There are footprints here, he has been here before."

  Just where Xiao Fan was standing a day ago, two Blood Guards members stared at the footprints on the ground and whispered.

  "They shouldn't have gone far, let's chase after them." The two exchanged a glance and quickly followed the footprints.

  "Huh, the footprints are gone again."

  "How is it possible."

  "Not good!"

  Watching the footprints disappear, the two of them were stunned for a while, and then seemed to have thought of something and immediately reacted, but it was already too late.

  "Hmph..."

  A flash of sword light descended from the sky, with a momentum like Mount Tai and a speed like lightning. In an instant, it split the blood guard on the left from head to toe.

  "Looking for death." The Blood Guard on the right was unmoved by his companion's death, and swung his long knife at Xiao Fan.

  Xiao Fan took a step back, discovering that the opponent's long knife had three yuan forces condensed on it. Obviously, the opponent was in the realm of Tuo Fan San Pin. He couldn't help but chuckle and say, "Only Tuo Fan San Pin? Let me try your combat strength."

  As he spoke, Xiao Fan did not dodge or evade, his Cold Iron Sword sweeping across horizontally.

  "Bang..."

  The swords clashed, and the Blood Guard's face changed dramatically. He felt a surge of immense power transmitted through the long sword, causing his mouth to burst open and his entire body to fly backward.

  "What kind of monster is this?" He thought as he flew backward, still wondering how his opponent could have such incredible strength.

  "Terrible."

  Xiao Fan sighed, but his movements didn't slow down. He flashed out with the lightness skill "Treading Snow Without a Trace" that he had just successfully cultivated, and his entire person was like a clear breeze flashing by. Then, he heavily slashed down with one sword.

  "...Clang!" The Blood Guard, one of the three extraordinary blood warriors, raised his knife to block, but at this moment he was in the process of flying backwards, his old strength had dissipated and his new strength had not yet been born. This knife could only exert half of its power, how could it withstand Xiao Fang's full-strength sword?

  "Hmph..."

  The long knife snapped open, Xiao Fang's long sword was like a broken bamboo, cutting the blood guard in half, and fresh blood splattered all over the ground.

  "Someone else is here, haha, the hunt begins now."

  Xiao Fan originally wanted to deal with the two corpses, but his spiritual sense detected that another two Blood Guards were approaching from afar. He couldn't help but smile, and with a flash of movement, he leapt onto a tree. Then, he activated his "Introspection Technique" which had already reached the Small Success realm, concealing all his aura.

  A moment later, two Blood Guardsmen rushed over.

  "Not good, it smells like blood." The two of them changed their expressions and cautiously walked forward, looking around with their eyes, but they didn't see Xiao Fan hiding in the tall tree covered by leaves.

  "The blood is still warm, he must be nearby, be careful."

  When the two saw the two corpses on the ground, their faces changed greatly: "What a cruel means, they were actually cut in half."

  "Split? Oh no..." One of the guards suddenly remembered that their own man had been split in two, and his face changed instantly. He hastily lifted his head to look up.

  "Really clever, unfortunately, it's too late."

  At this time, a cold voice came from above his head, and then he only felt a strong force with a flash of sword light passing by, and his consciousness was completely annihilated.

  "It's you!" After one of the Blood Guards was killed by Xiao Fan, the one next to him finally discovered Xiao Fan descending from the sky and couldn't help but be shocked. He hastily pulled out a flame arrow, wanting to send a signal.

  "Hmm..." Xiao Fan let out a cold hum, his spiritual energy pouring out, a powerful spiritual force invading the opponent's mind, causing their movements to come to a halt, as if they had been stunned into stupidity.

  Xiao Fan then swept his sword across, beheading him.

  "This is a flame arrow, it's used to send signals." Xiao Fan held the unlaunched flame arrow in his hand and couldn't help but feel a wave of relief. Fortunately, his movements were quick, otherwise he would have been surrounded by everyone.

  Xiao Fan brought over the other three corpses and searched them with Flame Arrows, then fell into deep thought.

  "One after another, I have killed four of them, they must be on high alert now. As soon as they discover me, they will shoot flame arrows. If that concentrated realm expert discovers me, it's likely to be dangerous. In that case, I'll just use their plan against them."

  As he thought of it, Xiao Fang ignited a flame arrow in his hand and then swept into the depths of the forest like a gust of wind.

  Wherever Xiao Fan passes by, there is no trace of footprints, it's truly "leaving no mark on the snow".