Dashing Student-Chapter 1281: Escaping Pursuit

Ming Ye realized that he had hit a wall only after half of his body was severed; the Chen Nan he had regarded as a small mouse was actually a fierce tiger.

If Xiao Lie hadn’t been there, Chen Nan might have been able to handle them all alone!

Understanding this, Ming Ye had no fighting spirit left, dragging his broken body in a desperate escape.

Chen Nan calmly summoned the Sun-shooting Bow, drew out the Jiao Long Arrow, and in one smooth motion, drew the bow and nocked the arrow. With a "whoosh," the Jiao Long Arrow transformed into a Jiao Long that pierced through the void, directly hitting the fleeing Ming Ye.

The power unleashed by the arrow shattered Ming Ye’s already precarious Golden Core.

When the Jiao Long Arrow returned, it carried half of Ming Ye’s corpse. With a wave, Chen Nan took the body in; after all, he was a Sixth-Layer Golden Core Realm Demon Cultivator.

Besides the storage bag, all that was left of Ming Ye was a necklace and a bone staff. The necklace had nine teeth, each uniquely shaped, with tiny runes engraved on them.

At the moment of Ming Ye’s death, the black fog dissipated, and the fierce beasts that the four teeth had turned into reverted back to teeth and returned to the necklace.

Chen Nan had no interest in the bone staff and simply stored it in the storage bag, intending to sell it later. However, he set the necklace aside; refining it could prove to be a powerful method.

Each tooth creating a fierce beast of formidable strength, not far off from a real demon beast.

After dealing with Ming Ye, Chen Nan quickly concealed his aura and flew into the distance, without worrying about whether Jiao Mie or Xiao Lie would emerge victorious, hoping they’d both perish.

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Chen Nan was unaware of the battle’s outcome between Jiao Mie and Xiao Lie, but Xiao Lie did not pursue him afterward, which might be related to Ming Ye’s death.

In any case, Chen Nan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He found an island at sea and hid there, beginning to process the spoils he had gained this time.

There was no need to mention the Spirit Stones; at the island where he ambushed the Demon Cultivators, Chen Nan left with the bodies of hundreds of Golden Core Realm Demon Cultivators and their storage bags.

The storage bags contained their personal savings and a variety of Heavenly and Earthly Treasures recently acquired in the forest, which could allow Chen Nan to concoct many Elixir Pills.

Unfortunately, the spiritual artifacts or other treasures used by Demon Cultivators are generally hard to sell, and keeping them is useless.

After much deliberation, Chen Nan decided that selling these items within the Demon Sect territory would be simpler.

Then there was Ming Ye’s Tooth Chain; since Ming Ye was dead, Chen Nan easily refined the Tooth Chain, sensing the power contained in the eight teeth.

The eight teeth equated to eight Sixth-Layer Golden Core Realm demon beasts, slightly weaker than real ones but still totaling eight.

Summoning eight demon beasts to encircle and kill a Sixth Level Cultivator was simple, but using the Tooth Chain required the cost of Essence Blood.

No wonder Ming Ye was at his limit after using just four teeth; how much Essence Blood could the old guy still have?

Chen Nan estimated that by using all of his Essence Blood, he could barely summon all eight fierce beasts, but doing so would leave him weak and needing time to recover his Essence Blood.

No matter what, it was still an attack technique, and Chen Nan happily accepted it.

During the time he was being hunted, Chen Nan never forgot about cultivation, and now with his wallet full, he immediately took out a large amount of Spirit Stones for cultivation.

His body was like a bottomless pit, quickly absorbing a batch of Spirit Stones as if it would never be satisfied.

Anyone witnessing this cultivation scene would be immensely shocked; for an ordinary cultivator, so much Spiritual Energy would directly overwhelm their bodies!

The vast Spiritual Energy flowed through Chen Nan’s meridians, ultimately converging in his Golden Core, forming drops of Spiritual Liquid, a sea of Spiritual Liquid emerging within the Golden Core.

After an unknown period, Chen Nan’s rate of Spiritual Energy absorption slowed, a drop of Spiritual Liquid falling into the liquid sea, creating a ripple that quickly spread outward, reaching its limit.

Externally, Chen Nan exhaled a breath of turbid air, opened his eyes, his cultivation suddenly advancing a step, directly entering the mid-stage of the Fourth Layer of the Golden Core Realm.

"Indeed, improving one’s realm through battle is the fastest way."

Chen Nan smiled and then his face fell at the sight of the thick layer of powder surrounding him.

This breakthrough had consumed as much as a hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, an astronomical figure. Though he wasn’t immediately worried about running out of Spirit Stones, he was still concerned.

"Better sell these Demon Path Spiritual Artifacts first."

With that decision made, Chen Nan left his secluded place, preparing for one last harvest of the Demon Cultivators’ Spirit Stones before departing.

Unknown to him, on a large island within the Demon Sect’s domain, the elders of the sect had gathered.

These elders came from powerful Demon Dao Sects like the Ten Thousand Demon Sect, the Hehuan Sect, Yin Soul Sect, and only they could hold down other Demon Dao Sects.

Even the witch Tu Susu and the demoness Yao Li had arrived.

Although the two were considered part of the young generation, they stood on equal ground with the older generation of Demon Sect magnates.

"You’ve all received the news, haven’t you? The Righteous Alliance designed to kill our Demon Sect cultivators; no less than a thousand, all dead on that island!"

An elderly figure spoke slowly, a sinister gleam still evident in his murky eyes.

"Also Xiao Lie, chasing down a small mouse of the Righteous Alliance, went to war with the Demon Clan, now missing with his life or death unknown, a disgrace to our Demon Sect!"

"Regardless, this vendetta must be avenged, and that mouse causing our Demon Sect prodigy to be unaccounted for must be captured, or else the Demon Sect would be a laughingstock!"

The other elders nodded in agreement; either situation was significant to them. If they couldn’t uphold the Demon Sect’s prestige, it would be like scattered sand.

"Then send people to give the Righteous Alliance a lesson. If they wish to escalate the war, we’ll accompany them to the end!"

"As for those demon clans who invaded our Demon Sect territory, they need to be taught a lesson too, or they’ll truly think our Demon Sect is easy to bully. However, we can use this to convey a willingness to cooperate with the Demon Clan."

"By the way, we can’t let that little mouse keep running; Xiao Lie, a mighty prodigy, was toyed with multiple times; this is not only Xiao Lie’s disgrace but also a slap to the Demon Sect’s face."

"Thus, we must catch him and give him the harshest punishment. Dispatch more personnel to ensure he doesn’t escape back to the Righteous Alliance!"

In just a few words, the elders decided the fate of many lives.

Even to them, Chen Nan was still just a small, inconspicuous mouse.