So Close

Xu Mu restrained his aura and quickly veered away. Just as Paul caught up, the forked paths ahead blocked him from view.

Xu Mu ran through the maze. After making a wide loop, he returned to Ye Chen.

Whoosh!

He sent a sword wave slashing toward him.

“Xu Mu! Were those your people just now?”

Ye Chen unleashed his power. “Empowered Dragon Scales!”

Crack!

He seized the incoming sword wave with both hands and tore it apart with all his strength.

But in the next instant, Xu Mu was already upon him, suddenly unleashing the Mirror-Breaking Sword.

The space around Ye Chen’s body shattered like transparent glass.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xu Mu swung his sword at Ye Chen’s neck.

Yet just before the blade struck, a golden chain suddenly wrapped around Ye Chen’s wrist.

Buzz!

Ye Chen vanished from in front of Xu Mu, causing the sword to miss.

[Destiny Power -50]

Xu Mu turned around and said with a smile, “Ye Chen, you really are something. Your luck is always this good.”

“You’re quite bold, daring to hurt our people in such a cramped space.”

Paul raised his hand and struck Xu Mu with his palm.

A wave of golden energy, resembling a raging tide, completely filled the two-meter-square passage.

However, the moment the attack touched Xu Mu, it vanished.

The next instant, it appeared above Ye Chen’s head.

Boom!

[Destiny Power -30]

Ye Chen was blasted away on the spot, vomiting blood. “Damn it! Xu Mu!”

He immediately turned and fled into the distance. His current cultivation was clearly higher than Xu Mu’s, so why couldn’t he defeat him?

Ye Chen couldn’t accept it. His talent was supposed to be the strongest—so why could this bastard always keep him suppressed?

Paul immediately charged at Xu Mu, but Xu Mu had no intention of wasting time fighting him.

He continued retreating and slipped into the maze.

Paul had just followed him around the bend to the left when, after taking only a few steps, he found himself facing another fork.

Xu Mu’s concealment ability was extremely powerful. Paul had no idea where he had gone.

Paul immediately turned back the way he had come, only to find a snow beast at the location where they had just fought.

The snow beast had already licked the blood from the ground clean.

Paul killed it with a single strike, then walked a few steps farther before becoming completely disoriented himself.

He had no idea where Ye Chen had fled.

Xu Mu activated his perception and continued pursuing Ye Chen. Now that Ye Chen was alone, killing him would be even easier.

Swish!

Xu Mu circled around to get ahead of Ye Chen, then immediately used his final spark. Transforming into a blood-red afterimage, he shot toward Ye Chen.

“Hymn of Light!”

Ye Chen once again unleashed his power.

Boom!

But Xu Mu sent him flying with a single slash. The golden scales on his body shattered, revealing a wound more than twenty centimeters long across his chest.

[Destiny Power -20]

“Xu Mu!”

Ye Chen let out a furious roar, his face twisting with rage.

The blood covering his body instantly evaporated beneath the golden radiance.

The phantom dragon head behind him grew increasingly solid, launching attack after attack at Xu Mu.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Relying on his powerful physique, Xu Mu advanced while blocking the attacks.

It seemed that he had truly enraged Ye Chen. His attacks were even stronger than before.

Unfortunately for Ye Chen, Xu Mu had decided to use his Destiny Power to finish him off this time. He was holding nothing back.

Whoosh!

When he closed to within two meters of Ye Chen, he once again unleashed his final spark. Blood-red qi sprayed outward from his body.

In an instant, it deflected all of Ye Chen’s attacks, and Xu Mu thrust his sword straight through Ye Chen’s body.

[Destiny Power -50]

“Ugh!”

Ye Chen spat out a mouthful of blood, but the dragon’s claws behind him did not stop. One of them struck Xu Mu and sent him flying.

Rumble!

As Xu Mu flew backward, he compressed the air once more, continuously slicing at Ye Chen.

[Destiny Power -20]

[Destiny Power -30]

…

Ye Chen retreated while roaring. At last, he understood that he had been too impatient.

He was improving, that much was true—but Xu Mu was improving as well.

At present, he was completely unable to defeat Xu Mu.

If this continued, he would certainly die. Ye Chen had no desire to die.

“True Dragon Body! Dragon Blood Transformation!”

Whoosh!

The blood scattered around Ye Chen’s body suddenly wrapped around him. The phantom dragon head behind him opened its mouth and swallowed him whole.

Boom!

The dragon formed from the phantom grew increasingly solid. In the end, it erupted with golden light and transformed into a true dragon.

However, this dragon was only about ten meters long. It was incredibly fast, vanishing from Xu Mu’s sight in the blink of an eye.

“Trying to run?”

Xu Mu immediately followed behind it. To confirm whether the dragon before him was still Ye Chen, he activated his Eye of God.

Name: Ye Chen

Character: Protagonist of Dragon King Descends

Destiny Power: 1,240

Destiny Level: 12 (maximum level: 10)

“What the hell?”

Xu Mu immediately unleashed his final spark. He was already right behind Ye Chen, and with just a little over two hundred points of Destiny Power, he could finish him off.

At this critical moment, Xu Mu couldn’t afford to give up.

Just then, Xu Mu’s eyes widened. Ye Chen had been moving rapidly through the maze, yet he had actually left it and touched the formation.

“How is that even possible?”

Xu Mu cursed under his breath, then immediately consumed Destiny Power to replenish his qi and rapidly close the distance between them.

In the end, he pursued Ye Chen out of the maze as well.

After leaving the maze, Ye Chen transformed into a streak of golden light and shot into the sky.

Xu Mu was certainly not going to let this opportunity slip away. He directly used his final spark, unleashing half of his qi.

In an instant, a blood-red trail nearly a hundred meters long was left across the sky.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Mu appeared above Ye Chen’s head.

“Die!”

The final spark erupted once more, smashing Ye Chen, still in dragon form, from the sky toward the ground.

Boom!

Ye Chen’s body crashed into a mountain below. The terrifying impact flattened the entire peak.

Yet inside the mountain, a stone platform was revealed.

Ye Chen immediately spotted it and flew toward it.

[Destiny Power -50]

The moment he touched the stone platform, his figure vanished.

Xu Mu landed immediately afterward and pressed his hand against the platform.

“A teleportation formation? Damn it!”

He had never expected that the final two hundred points of Destiny Power would still allow Ye Chen to find a way out.

“Forget it. He’s already at the edge of his limits. Before I see him again, as long as he doesn’t encounter one of the heroines and obtain some opportunity, I should be able to kill him the moment we meet.”

Xu Mu shook his head lightly and returned to the maze.

Through his perception, he discovered that, under Chen Xuan’s leadership, the others had actually found an eighth-order expert from the Black Moon Clan.

Xu Mu immediately caught up with them and regrouped.

“Brother Mu.”

When Chen Xuan saw Xu Mu, he immediately came over to greet him.

The eighth-order expert from the Black Moon Clan was a gaunt old man. When he saw Xu Mu, he said nothing.

Zilan Yin had already explained everything when they first met.

“I found the formation leading out of here.”

As he spoke, Xu Mu looked at Zilan Yin. “What are you planning to do? Fight the eighth-order experts from the Radiant Clan here, or leave with us?”

“Leave with you.”

Zilan Yin answered without hesitation. “We only have one eighth-order expert here, while the Radiant Clan has two.”

“Very well. I’ll lead the way.”

Xu Mu once again led the group through the maze and toward the stone platform from earlier.

In the end, they used the platform to teleport back to the snowy world they had visited before.

The continent stretched endlessly into the distance below. All of them returned to the Beiming Continent and emerged outside the ruins.

When the Black Moon Clan elder saw the destroyed town, the veins on his forehead bulged with fury. “The Holy Light Clan! Damn them! We’re heading back immediately to notify our Ancestor!”

Xu Mu spread out his senses, searching for any trace of Ye Chen.