Two months passed in a flash, in a chase of pursuit and escape.
Li Yin transformed from a middle-aged man with an otherworldly demeanor into an old man with a withered appearance.
However, his aura terrifyingly suppressed the universe, revealing an otherworldly aura of laws and principles, like a deity looking down upon all of creation.
His divine might covered and suppressed the universe.
"Suck."
Li Yin opened his mouth wide and took a deep breath. The immortal qi floating in the boundless void seemed like countless rivers flowing back into Li Yin's body.
He sucked all the immortal qi from the star domain dry.
However, the boundless immortal qi, once refined into power, was like a single drop of water falling into a dried-up ocean.
It wasn't even one ten-thousandth of the consumption needed for him to perform blood escape once.
Watching the spacetime shuttle vanish into the void in an instant, Li Yin's face twisted into a ferocious expression.
Chase.
At any cost, he must get his hands on the spacetime shuttle.
Li Yin offered himself as a sacrifice, performed blood escape, traversed time and space, closely following the spacetime shuttle.
"I don't believe you still have immortal sources."
"You must be at your limit too..."
"You insignificant ant, you cannot escape from the palm of this one's hand."
Li Yin's eyes were bloodshot, like a gambler who had lost everything and gone mad.
He was now half-crippled, severely damaging his foundation.
Moreover, he had been chasing for three months; he could not give up now.
Just hold on a bit longer. Gu Qing cannot possibly have that many immortal sources and immortal crystals. Gu Qing must be at his limit too.
"Hahaha!"
"He's getting desperate, starting to offer his own laws as a sacrifice."
Gu Qing laughed heartily, feeling extremely gratified.
Once Li Yin offered his own laws as a sacrifice, even if he survived, he would be crippled, or even fall from the Profound Divine Realm.
Therefore, Li Yin had already gone mad and would not give up the chase.
"Mmm."
Zhi Meng's face was pale; continuously piloting the flying boat at full capacity for three months placed an enormous burden on her.
Fortunately, there had been an unlimited supply of Primordial Yellow Mother Qi, otherwise she would have had to burn her own essence, qi, and spirit.
Although Zhi Meng's face was pale, her eyes were filled with smiles.
Because she knew that Gu Qing never did useless work; Li Yin was doomed.
"Master, why don't I pilot it for a while. You should rest first."
Seeing Zhi Meng's pale face and weakened breath, Gu Qing said with distress.
"No."
"You must conserve your energy and face Li Yin at your peak state. You cannot have the slightest bit of damage. Your master can still persist for another three years."
Zhi Meng firmly refused, telling Gu Qing not to worry and to focus on his cultivation, as any improvement in his cultivation would be beneficial.
"Fine!"
Seeing this, Gu Qing didn't say more and took a drop of time essence, circulated the Undying Chaos Sutra, and forcefully broke through the bottleneck of the fourth level of the Divine Fire Realm.
Zhi Meng's eyes revealed a fierce expression. After pondering for a moment, she would slow down at times and speed up at others, appearing as if she was on her last legs and putting up a final desperate struggle.
Li Yin believed it and was overjoyed in his heart, chasing even more vigorously.
But as he chased, a year passed, and he didn't know if Gu Qing and Zhi Meng were truly exhausted.
But he was truly exhausted.
The Profound Divine Realm laws had been almost completely sacrificed, and his realm had fallen to the early stage of the first level of the Profound Divine Realm.
His entire being was like a candle in the wind, looking at the spacetime shuttle, Li Yin's bloodshot old eyes were filled with despair and collapse.
"Stop."
Gu Qing stopped his cultivation, his realm had already broken through to the peak of the fourth level of the Divine Fire Realm.
Looking at the withered Li Yin, Gu Qing knew it was time to reveal his true intentions.
Because Li Yin had almost completely sacrificed his Profound Divine Realm laws, and if he continued sacrificing them, his realm would completely fall to the Heavenly God Realm.
Under such circumstances, Li Yin could not continue chasing.
After all, Li Yin surely knew in his heart that with only Heavenly God Realm cultivation, he would be no match for Gu Qing at all.
"Hahaha!"
Seeing the flying boat stop, Li Yin's desperate old eyes erupted with brilliant light as he laughed to the sky, even laughing out tears.
Gu Qing suddenly stopping definitely wasn't because he ran out of immortal source immortal crystals; such a coincidence couldn't possibly exist in this world.
Ridiculous, he had been cautious his whole life, thinking three steps ahead with every step, and had gone through countless hardships to break through to the Profound Divine Realm.
Yet now, he was being led around like a dog by two Heavenly God Realm ants.
"But you're just a Heavenly God Realm ant, what makes you confident you can resist my divine abilities?"
Looking at Gu Qing on the flying boat's deck, Li Yin's face became ferocious, waiting only for Gu Qing to come out so he could kill him with a single strike.
This time, he would not waste another word on Gu Qing.
"You'll know soon enough."
Gu Qing sneered and secretly activated the curse.
"Hm?"
"What is this thing?"
Li Yin's eyes widened with anger. Suddenly, filthy things attached themselves to his flesh, bones, and divine soul. His qi and blood went out of control, and heart demons surged forth.
If it were him at his peak, after some effort, he might have been able to clear these curses.
At the very least, he could have suppressed the curses for a period of time.
But at this moment, all his laws had been sacrificed, his realm was collapsing, and his strength was already less than one ten-thousandth of its former self.
Faced with such a terrifying curse, he was completely helpless, making a bad situation even worse.
"Die."
Gu Qing summoned the Profound Fire Treasure Mirror, like a scorching sun illuminating the boundless void.
The World-Destroying Profound Light pierced through spacetime, as if it wanted to burn all the ways of the world into nothingness.
"Ah..."
"What kind of treasure is this?"
"Who on earth are you?"
Li Yin's face paled in shock. This World-Destroying Profound Light was too terrifying; his Heavenly God Realm dao robe was like nothing before it, pierced through by the World-Destroying Profound Light.
His indestructible physical body and immortal divine soul rapidly melted, burned into nothingness.
Even the Profound Divine Realm laws were collapsing.
One must know that the laws of the Profound Divine Realm were the great dao laws; not even cultivators of the same realm could possibly erase them.
Therefore, there was a saying in the world that in the Profound Divine Realm, there were only differences in strength, not life and death.
A Profound Divine could never kill another Profound Divine.
Yet Gu Qing's treasure could actually erase his Profound Divine laws.
With such a terrifying treasure, Gu Qing's identity was definitely not simple.
However, thinking about this now was useless; today, either Gu Qing would die, or he would perish.
Li Yin could not just wait for death.
Using the remaining divine soul power he had, he wielded his flying sword, striking toward the Profound Fire Treasure Mirror.
As long as he could blast away the Profound Fire Treasure Mirror, he would have confidence in delivering a killing blow to Gu Qing.
After all, the Profound Divine Realm was the Profound Divine Realm; even with a breath remaining, it was not something a Heavenly God Realm cultivator could contend with.
Whoosh!
The flying sword carried boundless slaughter, striking toward the Profound Fire Treasure Mirror.
"Hmph."
Seeing this, Gu Qing grew ruthless in his heart and swallowed three Immortal Yuan Pills and three Heavenly Soul Pills at once. The immense medicinal energy exploded within his body.
If not for his sufficiently strong physical body, he would have been blown apart by the immense medicinal energy.
"Still not enough."
Gu Qing circulated the Chaotic Indestructible Sutra to quickly refine the medicinal energy, but the conversion of medicinal energy to immortal yuan was ultimately too slow.
Gu Qing began to offer sacrifices of himself, offering sacrifices to the Calamity Black Dragon. Immortal yuan poured into the Profound Fire Treasure Mirror like a tsunami.
Hum!
The Profound Fire Treasure Mirror trembled, erupting with even more brilliant World-Destroying Profound Light.
The boundless murderous sword qi, under the illumination of the World-Destroying Profound Light, rapidly melted away, including the Heavenly Artifact flying sword, whose speed also slowed.
The sword dao laws flowing from the flying sword quickly dimmed.
Just as it was about to reach a hundred meters from the Profound Fire Treasure Mirror, it suddenly stopped, and the sword body began to melt.
"It's over."
Li Yin's heart sank to the bottom.
The flying sword was already his last resort; he had no strength left to counterattack.
At this point, he had been burned down to nothing but bones by the World-Destroying Profound Light, and his divine soul was burning fiercely.
In no time, he would be completely burned into nothingness, with both body and divine soul annihilated.
"I hate this..." Li Yin was consumed with hatred.
He had originally had the chance to kill Gu Qing; with a single thought, he could have erased Gu Qing.
Or perhaps restrain Gu Qing, as long as Gu Qing didn't board the Spacetime Shuttle, he would just an ant that could be casually obliterated.
However, because of a moment's hesitation from a single sentence, the situation reversed, and Gu Qing turned the tables on them in this desperate situation.
He died with such resentment.
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