Splitting the Heavens

Chapter 1087: Trailing Behind, Locating the Spirit Faith World

Chapter 1087: Trailing Behind, Locating the Spirit Faith World

After shaking off 3 True Immortals from the Spirit Faith World who nearly fully surrounded him, he no longer had any reservations.

There was also the matter of him heavily injuring one of their first tier True Immortals earlier.

One had to know that when Shang Xia first ran into the experts of the Spirit Faith World, he exchanged a single blow with Lan Zhengfeng and neither gained the upper hand.

Under such circumstances, as long as he wasn’t fully surrounded, even if the other side had a third tier True Immortal and 2 first tier True Immortals on their side, he was more than confident to retreat unscathed.

The reason he was able to escape successfully was because he managed to detect the first tier True Immortals before they knew what was happening.

Clearly, the other side didn’t know that the range of his divine soul was much greater than experts of the same level. That was why they made the mistake of underestimating him.

After the failure, they would definitely reflect and learn from their mistakes. It wouldn’t be so easy for Shang Xia to detect them the next time.

However, there was an even more important problem at the moment. Shang Xia needed to know how the first tier True Immortals of the Spirit Faith World found him!

Actually, it wasn’t just once. When Shang Xia used the rank five Five Element Teleportation Talisman to run away from the Star Beast Nest, he could tell that Yan Wujiu and the other second tier True Immortal managed to locate where he appeared right before he left.

Back then, he didn’t have the luxury of time to think about what happened. Looking back, he realized that there was something fishy. His talisman allowed him to travel tens of thousands of miles... How could the other party find him so easily?

The only reason Yan Wujiu and the other second tier True Immortal didn’t give chase was because they were afraid other experts of the Spirit Luxuriant World would rush out from the Star Beast Nest after sending more True Immortals.

If Shang Xia wasn’t able to solve the problem of being located by the experts of the Spirit Faith World, his attempt to look for their location in the sea of stars would be a massive joke! If he was even a little careless, he would be surrounded by his enemies and killed!

That was also the reason why Shang Xia didn’t run as far away as he could after heavily injuring the first tier True Immortal. After pretending to escape earlier, he made a huge detour and went back to where they fought.

He wanted to get to the bottom of the matter of how they were finding him by stalking the heavily injured expert!

Even though it was possible for them to also locate his presence... Especially so for the third tier True Immortal, but Shang Xia knew that he wouldn’t get a better chance to get to the bottom of the matter! Even though the expert who was heavily injured wasn’t in any mortal danger, he no longer had any combat strength left! That would mean that if the experts of the Spirit Faith World didn’t want to let him die, they had to choose one of the other True Immortals to take care of him!

Logically, the weaker True Immortal would have to take care of the heavily injured one... That would mean that realistically, Shang Xia would only face a threat from Lan Zhengfeng!

Lan Zhengfeng might be difficult to deal with, and Shang Xia knew that he wouldn’t be able to gain victory if they fought, he had no choice. The longer he dragged it out, the more reinforcements would arrive.

After all, he was most likely already in the territory controlled by the Spirit Faith World and no matter how confident he was in his strength, he knew that he would be powerless once he was outnumbered. Not to mention the fact that he didn’t even know how strong the Spirit Faith World was!

The strongest expert they sent at the moment was Lan Zhengfeng, who was a third tier Martial Void Realm True Immortal, what’s to say that they didn’t have experts of the fourth, fifth, or even higher tiers among them?!

Of course, from the way they treated the Spirit Luxuriant World’s ownership of the Star Beast Nest, the possibility of them having supreme experts was low, but Shang Xia didn’t dare to take a gamble!

As such, he had to risk it all to find out how they tracked him.

When Shang Xia made his way back to the battlefield, the True Immortals of the Spirit Faith World were already nowhere to be seen. However, Shang Xia recalled the direction the first tier True Immortal took when he first found him.

After landing his blow and ‘escaping’ earlier, Shang Xia also noticed that all 3 of them were moving in the same direction.

Concealing his aura to the limit once more, Shang Xia released his divine soul to the greatest extent before rushing deep into the sea of stars in pursuit.

Not too long after he left, a ray of light resembling a stray meteor rushed to where he once stood. True Immortal Lan Zhengfeng held the Tracking Compass in his hand as he revealed a look of mockery.

He mumbled in a low voice, “Heh... It’s just as I thought. Since he doesn’t know how his tracks were revealed, he only had two choices. One is to retreat back to the Star Beast Nest, and the other is to risk it all and try to find out the reason. Looks like he’s a crazy fellow indeed... I’m afraid he’s also trying to take the chance to locate the Spirit Faith World. Hehehe... You’re playing perfectly into our hands. Do you really think you can escape from me? When you find out that our Spirit Faith World isn’t just the Spirit Faith World, I’m afraid it will be too late!”

Retrieving the Tracking Compass, he kept it in his sleeves. The next second, True Immortal Lan Zhengfeng also rushed in the direction they left. He was indeed headed to the Spirit Faith World, but he maintained a speed that was neither too fast nor too slow. In fact, there was a trace of amusement in his eyes when he casually followed behind Shang Xia.

The only reason he was able to heavily injure the expert from the Spirit Faith World earlier was because he managed to catch his opponent off guard.

After thinking for some time, Lan Zhengfeng knew that either the other party had a way of detecting them closing in, or else the range of his divine soul was far larger than he expected.

One had to know that the first tier True Immortals were able to maintain a distance of more than a thousand miles from their target after locking on with their Tracking Compass. Moreover, they weren’t foolish juniors! They would definitely conceal their aura after closing in to their target.

For Shang Xia to discover them even after they did so much... That could only mean that the range of his divine soul was more than a thousand miles! Moreover, they surrounded him from both sides, and that would mean that his divine soul covered an area of 2000 miles at the very least!

Lan Zhengfeng felt incredulous after thinking about it. After all, that would mean that the range of Shang Xia’s divine soul had already surpassed him, a third tier True Immortal!

He might have only interacted with Shang Xia twice, but he already made up his mind that he couldn’t allow an expert like that to live!

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As he was afraid he was going in the wrong direction, Shang Xia didn’t bother traveling through space in order to prevent any awkward situations where he appeared too far in front of his target.

Even though his ability to pass through space was commendable, traveling through regions of foreign space still posed a risk.

Moreover, Shang Xia knew that with one of them seriously injured, they wouldn’t try rushing through space either. Unless they had treasures that could allow them to resist the pressure of the void when traveling through it, there was no way they would do that.

Shang Xia moved extremely quickly even though he was only flying. Before an hour was up, he had already traveled close to 100,000 miles.

He was traveling much faster through space than on the surface of a world, but that was also because it was the first time he was rushing through space at his top speed after breaking through to the Six Direction Realm.

However, he quickly started to slow down when he discovered a small wooden Star Ship around 30 feet long in the distance.

Fortunately, the ship wasn’t too slow. Due to its small size, it was unable to house a powerful grand formation and Shang Xia quickly noticed the auras of 2 first tier True Immortals on it. One of them had a violently fluctuating aura and seemed extremely weak. However, his life wasn’t in any danger.

After finding their tracks, Shang Xia didn’t rush over at top speed. Instead, he intentionally stayed in place as he reached out through his divine soul.

What disappointed him was that no matter how hard he tried, he failed to find anyone behind, or anywhere around him!

Shang Xia wasn’t stupid enough to think that he managed to shake off Lan Zhengfeng. He knew that the other side definitely reached the conclusion that his divine soul was a lot more powerful than experts of the same level, and he was confident of Shang Xia’s position in the sea of stars which was why he wasn’t following too closely.

Sighing softly, Shang Xia knew that there was no avoiding the massive battle that would break out next.

Surprisingly, Shang Xia saw it as a great opportunity to learn about the true strength and foundation of the Spirit Faith World. Since the other side was planning to slowly hunt him down, he would make full use of the opportunity!

As such, Shang Xia and Lan Zhengfeng seemed to have reached some sort of silent agreement as they maintained a distance where neither could notice each other’s presence. Just like that, 2 True Immortals followed each other while maintaining a set distance from the wooden ship flying through space.

In the darkness, countless hours passed as Shang Xia continued to track the wooden ship.

Even though he slowed down after discovering their presence, they were still traveling relatively quickly. In those hours that passed, they flew nearly a million miles.

Throughout the process, Shang Xia passed through 2 asteroid belts and a massive nebula. He even saw 2 Earth Stars before noticing a strange abandoned land that resembled a surface world. Eventually, a warm glow appeared in his sights...

It wasn’t because his eyesight was amazing that he managed to catch sight of the glow. It was because it was just too powerful! He might be hundreds of thousands of miles away, but his attention was still drawn to it!

He was no stranger to the light. That was the spiritual light that came from a heavenly screen!

Despite not being able to confirm the presence of the world by seeing it for himself, Shang Xia knew that there was no need to go further under such circumstances!