Chapter 321: K-Masked Man, Where Else Can You Run?!
The woman Gong Changyi wasn’t bluffing; she had truly locked onto his location. Xia Feng didn’t dare to linger and turned to flee. However, as soon as he turned, he saw three ships emerge from space out of thin air behind him, their hulls bearing the emblem of the Golden Sparrow Flower. With wolves at his heels and tigers in front, Xia Feng cursed inwardly. He quickly retrieved a shuttle-shaped Time-Space Ship from his Nascent Ten Space. Its appearance resembled a capsule with both ends compressed into pointed cones. This was a new type of military spacecraft, with the drawback of being unable to carry firearms but a passenger capacity of only three. Its advantage was its extreme speed.
“Miss Mu, can you pilot it?”
“I can try.”
Without further ado, the two opened the hatch and entered. Mu Qingtong got the hang of it in a second, and streams of azure blue light flowed from both ends of the shuttle-shaped hull, purifying the air. With a swish, the hull transformed into a deep blue streak, speeding eastward. To the north lay the Goddess Fleet, and to the south were the Golden Sparrow pursuers. Mu Qingtong navigated eastward based on instinct.
However, before they could travel two seconds, their Eyes of Deconstruction spotted a tall knight clad in silver armor not far ahead. He stood with a strange greatsword whose hilt had rotating gears beneath his feet, slowly approaching them. The silver-armored knight’s face was hidden by a Silver Helmet Mask below his nose, revealing only a pair of ashen white, indifferent eyeballs. Above that, a sacred white ‘x’ mark was engraved between his eyebrows, and his gray hair was tied into a wolf’s tail that fell to his neck.
“Silver Ten?” Xia Feng recognized the individual at a glance. A member of the Apocalypse Knights, deputy leader of the Garden Investigation Team, Silver Ten! This guy’s incarnation had once appeared on Xize Island and was easily killed by Mu Qingtong, but his main body had gone on a rampage on White Emperor Island, silencing all the remnants. Afterward, he began hunting Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong, who were disguised as Masked Men. Xia Feng had thought he’d escaped this guy, but he hadn’t expected to still be tracked even after reaching Sector 46.
Silver Ten seemed to have noticed their shuttle-shaped ship as well. His gray eyes narrowed in confusion, appearing somewhat surprised, and he accelerated rapidly towards them.
“Holy crap, turn back, turn back!” Before Xia Feng could finish speaking, Mu Qingtong was already in rapid reverse. After a stylish arc drift, she returned the way they came. If the east was blocked, they’d go west! They couldn’t possibly be surrounded from all four directions!
Swish— The shuttle-shaped ship drew a straight blue line towards the left within the tranquil painting of the Eternal Flow Sea. The Goddess Fleet to the north perceived the shuttle-shaped ship’s movement and also changed direction. Nearly a hundred ships in the fleet rapidly spread out, forming a fan-shaped encirclement and closing in from the southwest. Corvis, who was pursuing from the south, also changed direction, heading northwest.
Xia Feng looked back at the three forces encircling them in a 200-degree fan shape, feeling a headache coming on. His luck today was rather poor. Fortunately, Miss Mu’s piloting skills were second only to none in the history of the entire empire, coupled with this latest model of military spacecraft, its speed was at its peak. The distance between them and the pursuers behind was gradually widening.
However, just as Xia Feng began to relax, he vaguely sensed something amiss and looked up. Ahead, at the deep end of the azure sea currents, a golden light faintly bloomed, and in an instant, the light grew rapidly. It was a golden rod, like Sun Wukong’s Ruyi Jingu Bang, spinning rapidly and enlarging, becoming a Sea-Stabilizing Needle, sweeping from the east with a terrifying, bone-chilling aura. The sea waves churned and surged, bringing with them the power of a tsunami. Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong’s eyes narrowed. There was someone intercepting them from the west as well?! Xia Feng knew the other three forces, but he couldn’t identify the owner of this rod.
However, now was not the time to ponder such things. With a thought, he activated his Nascent Ten Sacred Armor, covering the entire shuttle-shaped ship. One of the abilities of the Nascent Ten Sacred Armor, Holy Knight Space, allowed them to temporarily enter a parallel space (lasting up to 20 seconds). This parallel space could ignore most Spirit Robe and Spirit artifact attacks while also allowing for movement, with the distance covered depending on the amount of Spirit Particles consumed. After entering the Holy Knight Space, the entire shuttle-shaped ship seemed to shuttle through time and space, vanishing completely. The three forces behind them were all startled. But before they could react, the indiscriminate attack of the Sea-Stabilizing Needle passed through the shuttle-shaped ship’s position, sweeping towards them. The three forces each employed their defensive methods, but they still suffered heavy losses, falling into chaos.
“Ooh, could this guy be an ally?” Xia Feng, seeing this, didn’t dare to delay. Under Miss Mu’s superb piloting skills, they turned again and fled southwest. The Holy Knight Space had a full 20 seconds, enough for them to get far away. The four encircling forces had no idea where the shuttle-shaped ship had gone. However, about 10 seconds later, the Goddess Fleet seemed to reconfirm their position through some means and immediately pursued them southwest.
From behind, Silver Ten’s ashen gray eyes narrowed. “Burning Heaven Sacred Hall? Interesting. These guys dare to appear here so brazenly…” The Burning Heaven Sacred Hall was on the Apocalypse’s kill list. Apocalypse Knights were obligated to eliminate any members of the Burning Heaven they encountered. A cold glint appeared in Silver Ten’s eyes, and he stomped his foot, giving chase.
Simultaneously, the giant rod that had swept across the sea rapidly shrank to a thin rod about 1.5 meters long. After orienting itself, it swiftly followed. Corvis and Ke Yanqing at the very back were somewhat bewildered. Although they didn’t know why the Burning Heaven Sacred Hall and the Apocalypse Knights were also pursuing the Masked Men, they couldn’t worry about that now. Ke Yanqing just wanted to kill that K-Masked Man quickly, otherwise, she felt she wouldn’t be able to sleep peacefully, possibly even dreaming of the K-Masked Man leering and humiliating her. When the K-Masked Man had fled earlier, she hadn’t intended to pursue, fearing further humiliation. However, considering that the K-Masked Man might have said something inappropriate to Vais’s younger brother, she would be completely socially dead. Thus, she had to chase. As for the Spirit Song Competition venue, she left it to Red-Faced Ghost to handle.
Out of the seventy thousand people in the venue, the memories and emotions of over sixty-nine thousand had been wiped, turning them into Nightmare Puppets. They were then successfully imbued with a unified emotion, and finally, under Red-Faced Ghost’s control, over sixty thousand people died without resistance, thus fulfilling the condition for ‘Those Who Hope for Life’. However, unfortunately, even with such a perfect plan, the death of sixty-nine thousand people only yielded ten thousand Wishing Stones, which disappointed Red-Faced Ghost. But she had no time to dwell on it, as people from the Element Holy See were arriving, and she left the area without delay. As for the remaining hundred or so survivors in the venue, they were due to the ripple effect caused by the Q-Masked Man shattering the memory world, preventing a small portion of people’s memories from being successfully cleared. However, it was no longer important; these hundred survivors didn’t know exactly what had happened, causing no harm.
“This is unbelievable!” Xia Feng thought he had finally escaped, but through his Eye of Deconstruction, he discovered that the pursuers behind him had caught up again. These persistent nuisances seemed to have used some method, doubling their speed or more, rapidly closing in! Fortunately, the Goddess Fleet had engaged Silver Ten in combat, fighting even as they pursued, and the Sea-Stabilizing Needle, caught in the crossfire, was forced to join the fray.
The Golden Sparrow Flower, like a sharp sword, cut through the battlefield and charged towards Xia Feng and the two with killing intent. It was utter chaos. Xia Feng secretly prayed that these persistent nuisances would turn on each other and end up mutually destroyed. Unfortunately, his wish was not granted. As the shuttle-shaped ship accelerated to escape, ahead—
Once again!
A fleet appeared! A fleet whose number of ships was three times larger than the Goddess Fleet. Like scattered stars in the tranquil Eternal Flow Sea, they were dense and numerous.
