Chapter 373: Into the Eternal

Chapter 373: Into the Eternal

Hui peered ahead, searching. Im almost there. Just a little further. A little further!

Get back here! Han Qin snarled. He thrust his hand out, blasting a ray of fire at Hui.

Hui dodged out of the way of the heat. The fiery ray turned around and looped him in, forming a U shape. Slashing with the beating stick, Hui broke the U in its loop, making sure to shake the bell a few times to be sure Han Qin heard it.

Han Qin clapped his hands over his ears and scowled. The second his hands were occupied with his ears, Hui grinned. He tossed a handful of talismans behind him. Ice burst out at Han Qin. Han Qin lifted his hands off his ears to counter, and Hui shook his bell again. Han Qin hesitated, caught between reaching for his ears and counterattacking, and both the ice and the reverberations struck him.

Hui hurried away. He glanced over his shoulder. It looks like Ying Lin is far enough away. He isnt going to attack her. Good.

Beneath them, the plains rolled by. Here its almost here. Right here!

He darted upward. Sword and man soared into the sky. Almost invisible, a faint spatial distortion wobbled in the sky. Compared to the gash that Han Qin had torn to step into the world, this one had a softness to it, almost like water.

Hui flew into it unhesitatingly and came out before the false town inside the small world Li Xiang lived in. He took a moment to reorient himself, then shot off toward the infinite space in its center.

Time to find out who has a better grasp on spatial magic, between the mysterious senior who lives in this world and Han Qin!

Or between Han Qin and whoever made this world, depending on who made the infinite space.

If this world is anything like the one where Chen Wuya was locked away, theres got to be something strange about this plain. Maybe it really is an infinite space but maybe theres something more. Even if it isnt anything more than an infinite space, I can always lock Han Qin inside and permanently deny him the usage of one of his clones. Actually, I could even try to figure out the secrets to his clones! If I know how many he can make, or what the upper limit of their power is, or anything like that, Ill be better equipped to fight them in the future!

At the same time, Im really curious if this world really was created by Fen Long. Not to mention, I have a lot of questions for the mysterious senior! Im not going to let her get away from me so easily. Two birds, one stone! Deal with Han Qin and find out more about the mysterious senior at the same time!

Even as he thought it, Han Qin appeared in the world behind him. You cant escape me!

Hui sped on, jingling the bell a few more times as he did so. He waved jauntily at Han Qin.

Wife? Ha. You truly know nothing, Han Qin scoffed.

Hui shrugged. Its not as if every shot in the dark is a bullseye. Sister? Daughter?

In any case, it will be a hundred years before I can make another attempt. Theres no harm in a little pest control before she returns, Han Qin said, shrugging.

Pest control? Am I a bug in your eyes, Senior? Im honored to rank so high as to be included among the invertebrates, Hui replied, bowing. I wouldve expected a microbe, or maybe a virus status, from how this man looks down on me!

Han Qin grimaced. You disgust me.

Ah! My apologies, Senior. Ill try to be less disgusting, Hui pledged earnestly, cupping his hands to Han Qin.

Truly, it boggles the mind that you continue to survive from one day to the next. Han Qin threw his hands out, and a wall of fire flew at Hui. It stretched to the heavens and spread to the horizon, an inescapable wall with the heat of a thousand furnaces. Crackling and snapping, the fire rushed toward Hui with a fierce intensity. The air itself blackened around the fire, as if the flames charred them with their approach.

Hui darted back, eyes wide. Shit! If that hits me, Im dead! Or, at least, this body becomes charcoal. Think, think

Thats right! Yes! Hui dropped to the ground and slapped down an earth talisman, burrowing directly down into the earth. Fire rises. I should be safe underground!

Han Qin let out a derisive laugh. He gestured, and the fire chased after Hui, blasting through the narrow passage hed carved.

Ah, dammit! Its magical fire, it does whatever Han Qin wants it to do! Hui threw his hand out and quickly drew a talisman on the air. The earth reshaped itself to block off the passage behind him. He retreated deeper into the passage while the earth closed off behind him. Fire cracked and sizzled as it burned the earth away against all probability. Hui grit his teeth and retreated faster.

Abruptly, he froze. Wait. How could I have forgotten my own favorite trick? He let out a horrifying scream and dug his hand into his own chest, ripping out his core. Simultaneously, he coiled all the qi hed gathered with him except for some of the death qi, which he left behind in the body. He threw his core upward along with an earth talisman. The earth talisman cut a path through the ceiling, and the core soared up through it. The second the core lost contact with his body, his body collapsed. The death qi quickly filled his corpse.

Quickly sprouting from the seed-core into a tiny Hui, Hui hurried through the earth. I already know that wont work, but if I didnt try, hed get suspicious! No, no. This is necessary for my plan!

He gazed upward. Were almost at the edge of the infinite space. Now is the time to act!