Tainted will

Self-sword formation activated!

Swoosh.

Bai Ming's body was like a sword, sharp and cutting through the sky, leaving a long bloody trail behind him.

Using the self-sword formations enhancement alone would not create this blood-red streak behind him.

The problem was, Bai Ming's injuries were very severe now.

Bai Ming's injuries were so deep that bones could be seen, and fresh blood unceasingly leaked out. His tender white skin was mostly burnt and his face disfigured; he looked extremely tragic.

Even his beast wings were slightly burnt and filled with numerous finger-sized holes, making their effectiveness drop by 60%.

Behind him, about ten li away, a large army of fire beasts were chasing after him.

Even after Bai Ming had resorted to fist and sword path martial skills against the neverending legion of fire beasts, sadly against these oddities that don't have fixed body structures, he simply couldn't deal with them.

'Heal,' Bai Ming muttered internally, the primordial spirit immediately opened its tiny eyes as mystical light shone in them.

Otherworldly green lights illuminated the various wounds on Bai Ming's body, nonetheless ten breaths later the green light dimmed out, and all of his major wounds vanished without a trace.

Bai Ming made a motion of raising his eyebrows, despite his eyebrows already being burnt off.

Bai Ming had severe wounds on his face which made him look horrifying and ugly. If little children looked at him they would surely piss their pants right then and there.

A second back Bai Ming had only used the spirit's regenerative abilities to heal the major wounds on his body, he didn't find any need to heal his face as the injuries on his face were of no hindrance to him whatsoever, instead using the spirit's regeneration skill recklessly would only exhaust its already low essence reserves. And for Bai Ming, this injury even saves him the effort to change his appearance.

Throughout history, all the outstanding figures were capable of biding their time and not being attached to fleshly appearances. Those who indulged in the so-called beauty were mostly shallow individuals, it would be difficult for them to achieve true greatness with such an inferior mindset.

After all, appearances were only meant to deceive others to attain one's goals, nothing more. No matter how beautiful or ugly one was death was impartial to all.

And only with sufficient strength could one resist the tides of time. Jade beauties? Merely a pile of bones and rotten flesh in the end, truly insignificant.

That which is not eternal cannot be beautiful.

'Damn it, using my essence flame to eradicate these beasts was such a terrible move.' Such thoughts had appeared in Bai Ming's mind multiple times.

As it turned out, during the fight Bai Ming had resorted to all sorts of moves in his arsenal to take down these fiery beasts. But performing one such move backfired on Bai Ming and worsened his standing.

It all transpired when Bai Ming attacked the beasts with his nine-hundred-year-old flame essence, instead of provoking fear in them, it gave birth to overwhelming greed in their fiery hearts.

Bai Ming had immediately realized this shift in the beasts, previously they were fighting out of pure hatred and also to regain their sacred spirit herb, but now Bai Ming could easily perceive the overflowing greed in their gazes.

After that, the battle turned even more intense and he immediately fell into a disadvantageous position and began suffering heavy injuries, every time he suffered injuries he rapidly healed them with the help of the primordial spirit. And currently, after all the constant healing, the little spirit only had 37% of the medicinal essence remaining in its reserves.

Realizing that the odds were heavily stacked against him Bai Ming made a decision. He hardened his heart and immediately tossed the spirit herb he stole back at the beast group and retreated in the opposite direction.

But just a second later his heart sank, Bai Ming saw that the giant fire beasts had completely ignored the spirit vine, the fire beasts were unwilling to let him go, they chased after him.

Their goal was the flame essence within Bai Ming.

Bai Ming sighed internally, since that was the case Bai Ming charged back at the herd with a furious expression and forcefully snatched the Blazing Heart vine back before setting up the self-sword formation and using the speed boost to pull some distance from the beasts. But placing down the formation was not an easy task during such an intense battle, Bai Ming was heavily attacked by the fire beasts while doing so.

Only after repeating the process ten times was he able to accomplish his standing right now, But by now his divine sense was at an all-time low, hence he retrieved the self-sword formation after ten uses and barely maintained a safe distance from the fire beasts.

If he recklessly used the self-sword formation, it could increase the distance between them, but he would have to pay a huge price with regard to his divine sense.

Most importantly, Bai Ming was not fully aware of the range in which the fire beasts would continue to chase him. If this range was extremely great, even if Bai Ming spent all of his divine sense, it might not be enough for the expenditure of activating self-sword formation that many times.

Without the self-sword formation's enhancement, Bai Ming could only depend on his beast wings, but they were currently in a terrible state. The primordial spirit could only heal Bai Ming's injuries, even though the beast wings were implanted into Bai Ming's body they couldn't be repaired as of now.

As a matter of fact, his speed of movement from them could not compare to the fire beasts.

Dozens of breaths later, the fire beasts were already very close to Bai Ming, less than one li away.

Seeing that the fire beasts were near, Bai Ming had no choice but to grit his teeth and use the self-Sword formation again.

Whoosh!

His speed rose again, he shrugged off the beast group.

After reaching the end of the formation he repeated the process ten times, then Bai Ming retrieved the formation with a dark look on his face. His speed once again lowered.

"I was so unlucky to actually encounter these clingy beasts, this luck is truly…" Bai Ming was speechless.

'I have to quickly enter the core area, that is my only hope to get rid of these filthy beasts.' Bai Ming silently thought in his heart, he had not given up, there was still a glimmer of hope remaining in his heart.

If Bai Ming could enter the core area of the mystic realm then it was practically guaranteed that these fire beasts won't be even able to touch him, this was something that he had learnt from the primordial spirit.

According to the primordial spirit, the core area of the mystic realm was surrounded by a barrier that obstructed demonic beasts in the inner area from traveling to the core area. Similarly, the demonic beasts inside the barrier couldn't travel to the outside.

Bai Ming was not a demonic beast, he was merely a human with quite a few demonic traits. He could pass the barrier, but it won't be comfortable for sure. As even Bai Ming would face some resistance from the barrier, this information was passed on to him by his beloved teacher, Teng Zhe.

Bai Ming moved like an arrow, forming a straight line in the air, he flew straight toward the core area.

Self-Sword formation was once again activated, gradually getting distance from the bizarre fire beasts.

Bai Ming was having a headache with this ongoing chase, if only he knew the limits of the tracking range of these bizarre fire beasts.

As time passed, Bai Ming instinctively felt the need to try to see if he could break free of the pursuit of these bizarre fire beasts.

Making up his mind, Bai Ming activated Self-Sword formation unceasingly!

Finally, he was able to throw off the fire beasts beyond his vision.

Bai Ming retrieved the Self-Sword formation and used his beast wings to continue to fly, his divine sense running dangerously low.

And his speed naturally slowed.

"I have sacrificed too much of my divine sense, it would be nice if I have freed myself of them." Bai Ming was inwardly worried.

Not seeing the fire beasts did not mean he had already gotten away from them.

Existences that were comparable to tier-5 or even tier-6 cultivators usually did not track using just sight. It depended on what the limit of their tracking range was.

Right as Bai Ming was worriedly gazing back, a few majestic streaks of Scarlet light suddenly flew over, and accompanying it were a multitude of enchanting rainbow-colored lights.

The scarlet lights were soaring through the horizon, and when it sensed Bai Ming's presence, it immediately lowered its speed regrouping with the rainbow lights before rapidly approaching Bai Ming.

'There are seventeen of them and from their movement speed they at least possess upper-tier battle strength, they are heading in my direction, this certainly does not bode well for me.' Bai Ming frowned deeply when he noticed the approaching danger.

No matter what intention the other party had, Bai Ming did not want to provoke any more trouble.

He already had enough trouble on his hands.

He still did not know if he had thrown off that group of dreadful fire beasts behind him, and there was also the fact that he had to be on guard at all times against Zhou Yi's disciples.

Therefore, he immediately changed his direction and flew away from the approaching streaks of lights.

The approaching cultivators seemed to have sensed Bai Ming's intent, and one of the cultivators enshrouded in scarlet aura quickly shouted: "Brother please wait! We mean no harm to you, a few days back, we were lucky enough to obtain clues regarding a peerless inheritance in the center of the inner area, if you join us in clearing the obstacles there, we are willing to use the heavenly soul oath to form a pact and share the benefits of this peerless fortuitous encounter with you fairly, look there are so many of us already, we only need two more individuals!"

'Peerless fortuitous encounter? Eat shit!' Bai Ming snickered inwardly, he didn't believe them one bit.

At this time, the cultivators rapidly closed in on Bai Ming and the other cultivators suddenly chimed in;

Heartless words began to rain down —

"Haha, brother there is no need to act, everyone let's just execute him!"

"The extreme Yang essence leaking from his robes is definitely a top-class tier-5 or even tier-6 spirit herb, this is definitely a godsend opportunity."

"Anyone who dares to possess such a fine treasure before me should die without mercy!"

"Block this mongrel for me and I'll reward you generously."

Bai Ming coldly snorted.

He was not someone afraid of getting into trouble, but right now, what he had to do was hurry to the core region and recover his spiritual and mental energy.

He changed his direction, moving away directly from the band of cultivators.

Trouble had come knocking and Bai Ming wanted to run away, but how could it be that easy?