Di Tian had not crossed space to descend in person, but the passage constructed using his own Reverse Scale as a spatial anchor was enough for his gaze to pierce through the vast distance and clearly see every movement on Huo Yuhao's side.
He saw Limit Douluo Long Xiaoyao's posture of going all out, and then saw Huo Yuhao standing calmly behind that Reverse Scale. Inwardly, he couldn't help but curse that this brat really knew how to cause trouble, clashing with a Limit Douluo just like that.
However, thinking of the Master's injunctions, Di Tian ultimately could not turn a blind eye to this.
His voice came through the spatial rift: "This seat is Di Tian. If you know what's good for you, back off. You cannot harm this kid today."
With Di Tian's personality, naturally he disdained to hide his identity.
When he wanted to strike, he struck; when he wanted to speak, he spoke, never concealing anything.
Hearing this reply, Limit Douluo Long Xiaoyao's heart first skipped a beat, but then he felt it was reasonable.
The Soul Spirit System of the Spirit Pagoda was built by relying on the Spirit Beast resources of the Star Dou Great Forest. Di Tian had personally appeared when the Spirit Pagoda was first established, and his relationship with the Spirit Pagoda was clearly profound.
At this moment, Di Tian stepping in for Huo Yuhao was not completely incomprehensible either.
Limit Douluo Long Xiaoyao fell silent. He hovered in mid-air, gazing heavily at Huo Yuhao as if repeatedly weighing something in his heart.
After a moment, he spoke: "Kid, leave."
Originally, he had no intention of killing Huo Yuhao. Coming this time was merely to fulfill a request from the cooperation between the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire, just going through the motions.
The Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King possessed a natural suppression over him in terms of Bloodline and darkness attributes. Even if he went all out, he would have no chance of winning at all.
After all, that was the Beast God Di Tian, an existence standing at the Peak of the Spirit Beast world.
A smile hung on Huo Yuhao's face, and he said in a relaxed tone: "Then many thanks to Senior Dragon Emperor for showing mercy."
With that, he raised his hand to retract that Di Tian Reverse Scale back between his brows. The spatial rift before him also slowly closed, as if it had never appeared.
He was not worried that Limit Douluo Long Xiaoyao would take the opportunity to attack. According to historical records Ten Thousand Years later, although this person had joined the Holy Spirit Cult, he still cared about his face in certain aspects and would not easily break his word to launch a sneak attack.
Spreading the wings on his back, Huo Yuhao's figure rose abruptly from the ground, transforming into a dark silver stream of light that soared into the sky. Soon, he melted into the night and disappeared at the end of the distant skyline.
He also silently added a sentence in his heart: "By the next time we meet, perhaps Di Tian's intervention won't be needed anymore."
Flying in the predetermined direction for a while, Huo Yuhao stopped.
At some unknown point, a palm-sized circular screen appeared in his hand. Its surface emitted a faint blue light, and it clearly displayed several moving light spots.
This was a tracking Spirit Tool he had prepared long ago. Those light spots on it were clearly the locations of the Spirit Pagoda group that had left earlier.
Lowering his head to glance at the distribution of light spots on the screen, his brows couldn't help twitching slightly.
According to the retreat route he had planned beforehand, they should have headed north. Yet the light spots displayed on the screen at this moment clearly deviated toward the west.
Could something unexpected have happened along the way?
Without too much hesitation, Huo Yuhao immediately turned his direction and accelerated towards the west.
The night wind whistled past his ears. The urban area of Ming City beneath his feet was gradually left behind, replaced by rolling dark green outlines of mountains and fields under the moonlight.
Wang Donger and the others were all equipped with flight Spirit Tools. Although it had only been a short while, at their full-speed traveling pace, they had already rushed out of the range of Ming City.
While pursuing, Huo Yuhao perceived the aura ahead. As the distance gradually closed, he also roughly figured out what was going on.
He had already sensed the Spirit Power fluctuations of quite a few powerhouses—clearly the searching and pursuing Soul Engineers of the Sun Moon Empire and people from the Holy Spirit Cult.
The Spirit Pagoda group must have encountered the blockade of these pursuers after evacuating Ming City, forcing them to temporarily change their route and detour westward to hide.
When Huo Yuhao caught up with the Spirit Pagoda group, they were landing in a patch of mountain forest and no longer continuing to fly.
Dozens of figures were scattered among the trees, each concealing their forms.
The moment they sensed someone approaching, everyone instantly became vigilant.
But when they saw clearly that the newcomer was Huo Yuhao, that abruptly tightened atmosphere relaxed like a released bowstring.
Wang Donger was the first to walk over quickly. She looked Huo Yuhao up and down, and only after confirming he was uninjured did she finally let out a breath of stale air weighing on her chest, her gaze also softening.
As for the others, shock filled their hearts even more. The person who had appeared just now was a Limit Douluo! When they evacuated, everyone's heart had been sweating for Huo Yuhao.
Seeing Huo Yuhao return safe and sound at this moment, everyone felt an extra layer of awe and admiration for their young Pagoda Master.
Huo Yuhao first glanced at the crowd from the Spirit Pagoda and the Star Luo Imperial Spirit Master Academy. Then his gaze swept past them, casting toward another area not far away where figures were gathered.
There was another team of people there, and every single face was extremely familiar to him—they were precisely the people from Shrek Academy.
Just moments ago, the Spirit Pagoda group had originally been retreating northward along the predetermined route, only to collide halfway with Shrek Academy's retreating team.
Because powerful figures from the Sun Moon Empire had constantly been following behind Shrek's group, it had forced Jin Li to temporarily change direction, leading everyone to turn toward the western mountain forest for concealment.
Xuan Zi was walking over from Shrek's side right now. His rugged face still carried a trace of stern killing intent remaining from the earlier slaughter.
He stopped in front of Huo Yuhao and immediately spoke: "If the Spirit Pagoda is willing to help, and if your teacher can make a move, this assassination mission shouldn't have failed."
Hearing this, Huo Yuhao remained noncommittal on the surface, but inwardly, he was rolling his eyes all the way up to the heavens.
He truly couldn't understand how Xuan Zi had the nerve to say such things to him right off the bat.
If not for Shrek's people drawing the pursuers of the Sun Moon Empire, the people of the Spirit Pagoda might have already safely retreated along the established route by now.
Furthermore, in Xuan Zi's heart, he still seemed to regard Huo Yuhao as a Student of Shrek, as if he could boss him around at will.
Thus, Huo Yuhao couldn't hold it back either, retorting in a calm tone: "Elder Xuan, after all, Shrek Academy is only an academy. Since it has always boasted of not interfering in the continent's affairs, it's better not to participate in matters like assassinating a nation's crown prince."
These words weren't spoken heavily, but upon hearing them, Xuan Zi frowned, a trace of displeasure flashing in his eyes.
A layer of slight anger surfaced on his rugged face, and opening his mouth, he wanted to lecture him a few words.
He had high seniority, old qualifications, and strong strength, and he had always spoken unceremoniously on ordinary days.
But today, when the words reached his lips, the scene of the dual Phoenix soaring into the air on Sea God Island back then involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
A Limit Douluo stood behind Huo Yuhao, forcing him to be a bit more careful in his words and actions.
Therefore, Xuan Zi's words at the tip of his tongue turned a circle on his tongue tip and were ultimately swallowed back down forcefully by him.
He only hummed with a dark face, saying nothing more.
A Limit Douluo was still not something one could afford to provoke!
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