Translator: CinderTL
"Screech..."
Under Song Wen's relentless barrage of thunderous strikes, the giant eagle void beast was completely engulfed in Thunderlight, transforming into a massive ball of lightning. Only its piercing cries echoed from within the electric sphere.
Song Wen shot into the Thunderlight like an arrow loosed from a bow.
Gradually, the thunder's fury began to subside, and the electric serpents crackling across the sphere's surface began to dissipate.
Moments later, the Thunderlight vanished completely.
The giant eagle void beast was gone without a trace, leaving only Song Wen standing in its place.
Having vanquished his formidable foe, Song Wen's face relaxed into a relieved smile.
The void fiend's combat methods were truly unremarkable.
Aside from their divine sense attacks, their only notable defenses were protective shields formed from Primordial Qi.
Once their divine sense attacks proved ineffective, the void fiend's threat diminished significantly.
Of course, this applied only to Song Wen.
Any other Void Refinement Stage cultivator, even those possessing soul-type defensive spiritual treasures, would have been utterly vulnerable against the giant eagle void beast, with virtually no chance of resisting its divine sense attacks.
Within the Sea of Consciousness,
The shadow void watched the sudden appearance of the giant eagle void beast with a contemptuous smile.
"Chirp... Gurgle..."
The shadow void spat out words in the Void Clan's tongue, its tone dripping with mockery. It seemed to be ridiculing the giant eagle void beast's hubris, daring to attempt devouring it during its incubation.
"Chirp... Chirp..."
The giant eagle void beast struggled violently, only to find itself pinned down by an immense force. It responded with furious, resentful chirps.
The shadow void opened its fish-like mouth to speak further, but its eyes suddenly shifted, and it hurriedly warned, "Master, another low-ranking void clan member is approaching from the south."
Song Wen's figure materialized instantly, his voice deep and grave. "What's its strength?"
"Also seventh-tier, slightly stronger than the eagle beast," the shadow void replied.
Song Wen's expression grew even more solemn.
Though he could withstand seventh-tier void demons' divine sense attacks and possessed thunder magic to counter them, he had only managed to defeat the giant eagle void beast earlier thanks to the Divine Eye of Annihilation, combined with the profound corpse's assault, which had exposed a flaw in the beast's Source Qi Shield—a flaw the shadow void had swiftly exploited. Without that stroke of luck, he would likely still be fleeing in disarray from the giant eagle void beast.
Now, with another seventh-tier void demon approaching, one even stronger than the giant eagle void beast, the odds of victory in this battle seemed slim.
"How much longer until you complete your incubation?" Song Wen asked.
"At most, one more hour," Shadow Void replied.
Song Wen's gaze hardened as he swept his eyes toward the giant eagle void beast beside them.
"Ask it if it knows of any safe places deep within the Primordial Qi Death Zone."
Shadow Void immediately began interrogating the giant eagle void beast in the Void Clan language.
The giant eagle void beast initially resisted, but after Song Wen drenched it with the Golden Soup Curse, it quickly became docile.
A moment later, Shadow Void reported, "Master, according to it, there's an underground cave about 150,000 kilometers to the north. A seventh-tier resentful spirit dwells within. This spirit is slightly stronger than the eagle. The eagle has repeatedly tried to devour it but failed each time. If we lure the void fiends pursuing us into that cave, we can sit back and watch the chaos unfold."
Song Wen's expression turned thoughtful.
"How credible do you find its information?"
"Absolutely credible," Shadow Void asserted. "It's a low-ranking void clan member, only one tier above me in strength. If it were lying, I would easily detect it."
"Very well, I'll follow your suggestion and head to that earth cave," Song Wen said, his figure gradually fading away.
Upon learning that another seventh-tier void race had appeared to the south, Song Wen immediately activated his escape speed and fled north, deeper into the Primordial Qi Death Zone.
However, the void fiend pursuing him from behind possessed even greater escape speed, closing the distance to just a few hundred miles.
A dense blood mist suddenly erupted around Song Wen, completely engulfing his form.
In the next instant, a massive surge of blood mist erupted fifteen hundred miles ahead.
Song Wen's figure burst through the blood mist.
Fifteen hundred miles was the maximum distance he could currently cover using the Blood Escape Technique.
As his cultivation level continued to rise, this Blood Path Spell, which had repeatedly saved him from mortal danger, was proving increasingly inadequate.
Fortunately, the Blood Sea Seal could replenish his blood essence in time.
A moment later, he cast the Blood Escape Technique again.
Thus, in the pitch-black Primordial Qi, clusters of blood mist materialized.
The distance between these blood mist clusters remained constant: either fifteen hundred miles, the distance covered by the Blood Escape Technique, or just over a hundred miles, the distance Song Wen flew during the brief intervals when he replenished his blood essence.
The seventh-tier void race relentlessly pursued Song Wen, repeatedly catching up to him.
Each time, Song Wen effortlessly evaded its attacks by expending a Minor Teleportation Talisman.
With over forty such talismans at his disposal, Song Wen didn't hesitate to use them.
Once he shook off the void fiend and returned to the outside world, he could simply have Ye Bing craft more.
It's worth noting that this void fiend was a massive black hound, several dozen feet long, with six tentacles sprouting from its back, swaying wildly in the wind.
Following the shadow void's guidance, Song Wen finally arrived at the 'earth cave' mentioned by the giant eagle void beast. To his surprise, he discovered that this cave was actually the entrance to an underwater tunnel.
"Shadow void, are you certain there's only one seventh-tier resentful spirit inside?" Song Wen asked in his Sea of Consciousness.
"Master, that's what the eagle beast said," the shadow void replied.
Song Wen hesitated briefly, but as the sound of rushing air behind him grew louder, he suddenly dove downward, plunging into the abyss below.
After descending vertically for over a hundred miles, he reached the bottom of the abyss, where a cave entrance, several dozen feet high, loomed before him.
The cave sloped downward, continuing into the earth's depths.
Song Wen unleashed a torrent of Blood Qi, activating the Blood Escape Technique, and vanished from the cave entrance.
When he reappeared, he had already fled fifteen hundred li.
However, the cave passage continued its downward slope, showing no sign of ending.
A moment later, Song Wen activated the Blood Escape Technique again, finally reaching the bottom of the passage.
Before him lay another underground tunnel.
Unlike the previous downward-sloping passage, this tunnel snaked northward, its path winding and irregular.
Confirming that the giant dog void fiend was still pursuing him, Song Wen plunged into the tunnel without hesitation.
This tunnel differed sharply from the previous one. Instead of a consistent downward slope, it twisted and turned, its width fluctuating wildly.
At its widest points, the tunnel stretched several li across; at its narrowest, it barely allowed a person to pass.
After traveling several hundred li, Song Wen encountered a massive pile of rubble blocking the tunnel, sealing off the hundreds-of-zhang-wide passage and obstructing his path.
As Song Wen prepared to smash through the rubble, the shadow void's voice suddenly echoed in his Sea of Consciousness.
"Master, several hundred li beyond the rubble lies a vast cavern. A seventh-tier resentful spirit dwells within—likely the one the eagle beast mentioned."
(End of the Chapter)