Sixty something nautical miles away from the Blue Underground Isle, Fiend and Demon Flame were gasping for breath while kneeling on the surface of the ocean, their bodies covered in bruises. Their eyes contained a hint of fear while silently gazing in the direction in which Li Yunmu's shadow was fading quickly. Although they were looking at their enemy's figure disappearing quickly, they didn't have the slightest thought of chasing after him.
By then, they no longer had much strength left. In fact, only a hint of flux energy remained in their bodies. This pitiful amount was only sufficient to allow them to stay on top of the surface of the ocean.
Apart from this, both of them wouldn't even be able to deal with an ordinary ocean beast.
After a long time, Fiend suddenly asked, "Only you and I remain?"
"Yes, only we are alive," Demon Flame, the most powerful person of the residential region five replied after staying silent for a while.
"This time, our losses are too great. The enemy wasn't just a newcomer."
Fiend wanted to cry tears of blood. They were all well known figures of the thirty residential regions of inner disciples.
Thirteen of them had come, but in the end, only he and Demon Flame were still alive. People who didn't lose to him in strength like Wang Tongming, Du Zhi, Ba Moluo, Bing Moding, and other older monster had all perished. All of them had been killed by the enemy's final strike.
The power of that one strike… Whenever Demon Flame remembered it, he couldn't stop trembling. It wasn't a power which someone from the same realm, flux expert realm, could use. Even if their opponent had only used a little bit of that power, it was still enough to almost wipe them out.
If Demon Flame hadn't used all his trump cards and strength at that moment, he wouldn't have been able to make it out. As for Fiend, he was truly fortunate.
It was because rather than staying, the four-winged beast had escaped with him after seeing that hint of formidable power in that strike. Thus, he was able to survive and that four winged beast had fled to Deep Ocean because of that strike.
Both of them were barely able to maintain their balance on the ocean's surface while half kneeling down. After staying in the same position for a long time, they finally heard a solemn voice echo from the direction of Blue Moon Island.
"What's the matter with the two of you? What about the others? I didn't allow you all to start before us so that you would allow that little bastard to flee!"
The voice was coming closer, and by the last word, the speaker was already in front of the two.
Demon Flame remained silent as if still recalling the power of that strike from just a moment ago. As for Fiend, he didn't dare to show the slightest hint of arrogance toward his senior apprentice brother and said with a bitter smile, "He ran away. Others are dead, including Wang Tongming, Du Zhi, and Ba Moluo."
The names mentioned by Fiend were of those in the frontline, yes, only the frontline. They were people who were on the verge of congealing their flux armor and entering the great flux expert realm. All of them belonged to the first five regions and were well known figures there.
"What?"
When the true core disciples of Blue Moon Island reached the battle scene and saw its aftermath, their eyes went wide open.
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At that moment, a human figure was walking on all four along the beach of Blue Underworld Isle. It had crawled out from the ocean with its face awfully pale.
The person climbed the shore and took out a bunch of power grains which he began to eat in mouthfuls. He also took out a flux binding pill and tried his utmost to absorb its accumulated flux energy.
After a long while, a hint of red returned to Li Yunmu's face, and he could finally sense his four limbs again.
It had been the first time Li Yunmu hadn't followed the system's suggestion and had his most intense battle after descending to the Origin World.
Because he was the system's master and not the other way around, the choice was up to him. It was that simple. Even if his chances of success were low, he still couldn't be afraid of fighting. It was simply his nature.
If he was forced to flee, he would at least cover the enemy in bruises and show that Zhang Senior that he, Li Yunmu, wasn't a helpless prey.
That was why he took the risk to face thirteen powerful enemies at the same time, and it had triggered the threshold of Danger Critical Extinguisher.
He had almost beheaded all the people chasing after him with that one strike. The flame thunder energy origin power revealed in it had been the biggest threat, which forced even the four-winged giant beast to escape. But after that strike, he became extremely weak, to the extent that even though he could finish off the remaining opponents with barely any strength, he was unable to do it.
At first, he wanted to send the shadows to get rid of Fiend and Demon Flame who were barely alive, but he didn't do so because it was neither required nor necessary.
Although those thirteen people could be considered as existences whom inner disciples of thirty residential regions admired, Li Yunmu knew that they were only the vanguard of the troops sent by the sect to capture him.
If he revealed his ability to summon shadows to kill those people before the genuine core disciples entered the fray, it would be a truly unwise move.
[Host, you acted quite unreasonably this time. If that one called Du Zhi had been a little quicker in attacking, you would've died. You wouldn't even have had enough time to trigger Danger Critical Extinguisher.]
The system's tone contained a hint of anger. It was one of the rare times in which it displayed any emotion.
After staying silent for a long while, Li Yunmu answered evasively, "From the start, I've been thinking: If I remain dependent on you then perhaps I will go far, but I definitely won't be able to stand at the peak.
"When faced with a formidable enemy, I may always have the option of running away and avoid the battle. However, even if the chances of victory are low, I won't run away from battle as long as there's the slightest hope for me to make it through..." Li Yunmu said.
[I understand and hope that you are right.]
After thinking for some time, the system surprisingly settled down, and unusually enough, it didn't ask any follow up questions.
Li Yunmu finally revealed an unsightly smile. Running away without battling wasn't some mindset problem, but that he felt that if he always remained under the system's assistance and virtual protection, he would lose all his courage. It wasn't something he could verify, but he was pretty sure that by being coddled all the time, he would never experience life-and-death battles and grow through them.
The Origin World was vast and filled with unknown dangers as well as countless formidable powerhouses, sp after descending to the Origin Worl, Li Yunmu had been quiet and peaceful. However, he had a subconscious sensation that these past three years had been bad for his cultivation.
That was why he wanted a battle. Even if it resulted in his loss, at least he could have battled for once.
Suddenly, a shadow showed up in the distance. Li Feng quickly approached him and silently passed on the information which it had obtained after investigating Blue Underworld Island.