The moment Hu Ying finished speaking, Yun Yan's sword light had already approached less than a foot in front of Hu Ying.
The sharp sword light carried unparalleled killing intent and instantly tore through Hu Ying's soul defense.
Yun Yan's cold jade sword was about to pierce Hu Ying's heart, but the next moment, Yun Yan's sword fell into nothingness.
Hu Ying, who was originally standing here, has disappeared. Yun Yan stabbed the air with his sword. Only now did he realize that Hu Ying's physical skills were indeed good.
Yun Yan could clearly feel that Hu Ying's soul power was gradually dissipating, which meant that he was rapidly moving away from her.
However, Yun Yan had already left a soul mark on Hu Ying's body through the sword energy just now. This was a soul mark method that he had just learned.
Therefore, Yun Yan turned around and chased towards the right rear.
Under the dark and empty night, there are two black figures staging a life-and-death struggle in the forest and mountain stream. They seem to be two fish preying on each other, traveling rapidly through the dark ocean.
Hu Ying's movements are quick and his thinking is quick, because as a prey, he is very particular about path selection and environmental manipulation.
Hu Ying will use any favorable factors that can confuse tracking or confuse vision as optional conditions on the escape route.
At the same time, since Yun Yan was not familiar with the surrounding geographical environment, Hu Ying should try his best to avoid giving Yun Yan a wide field of vision.
As a hunter, Yun Yan wanted to hunt such a cunning and sophisticated prey, which was not an easy task.
He found that Hu Ying had no rules to follow in his escape, and Yun Yan didn't know where Hu Ying wanted to escape.
But one thing Yun Yan knew very well was that at their current speed, it was absolutely impossible to escape from the Night Continent within three hours.
Therefore, Hu Ying is willing to accept his challenge, which proves that he would rather die than give up the hope of becoming the master of Lihu Palace.
This at least convinced Yun Yan that Hu Ying was fighting for himself and did not include other conspiracies.
Therefore, Yun Yan quickened his pace. He wanted Hu Ying to know that this was a real test of life and death, not a deal.
As time passed, Yun Yan keenly sensed that Hu Ying's speed was declining, and Yun Yan only became serious at this time, because he wanted to use this to judge Hu Ying's true strength.
Then Yun Yan exerted force under his feet, and his movements as he walked across the ground gradually changed. His figure was no longer continuous, but appeared and disappeared, as if some continuous fragments had been removed from his field of vision.
At the same time, the distance between him and Hu Ying was shrinking, and I believe Hu Ying also noticed this.
However, just when Yun Yan was about to get close enough to take action, he suddenly discovered that Hu Ying's body split into two and fled in two different directions.
"What's going on? Does Hu Ying have helpers?"
Yun Yan couldn't tell the difference between the two Hu Yings who suddenly appeared, and both of them had their own soul marks on their bodies.
If he goes all out, he should be able to catch up with one of them in less than half an hour, but which one should he chase?
Yun Yan knew that as long as he chose the wrong target, he could give up the bet in advance.
But at this critical moment, Yun Yan saw the clue, because the soul power of one of them passed too fast, and it began to dissipate before buying enough time for the other person.
Yun Yan finally figured it out. It turned out that one of them was a soul clone created by Hu Ying, but his doing so consumed too much of his already scarce soul power.
Yun Yan could clearly feel that Hu Ying's body movement speed had dropped a lot this time. It seemed that he was planning to make a desperate move.
Because Yun Yan had hesitated just now and now he had re-determined Hu Ying's escape direction. The distance that had been opened during this period would require Yun Yan to waste at least another hour to completely offset it.
It has been almost an hour and a half since they left the lake, which means that
If Yunyan can definitely catch up with Hu Ying next time, then there will only be half an hour left for him to kill Hu Ying.
But the premise of this assumption is that he cannot make the same mistake again, but since Hu Ying can create a clone once, he can create a second time, and Yunyan has to spend time to judge and re-determine Hu Ying's position every time .
In this way, Hu Ying can be said to be a sure winner.
However, after Hu Ying used such a stunt, Yun Yan quickly saw the flaw in it.
He found that Hu Ying's escape direction had no rules to follow. This was also the advantage of Hu Ying's extraordinary thinking.
However, when he generates a clone, although he can briefly give the clone the same soul power aura as his own, he cannot give his head to the soul power clone, because in that case, the soul power clone will be his true body.
Therefore, the moment he released the soul clone, the clone's thinking stopped, so his next escape route became easy to identify.
It was through this method that Yun Yan accurately caught up with Hu Ying's body. When Hu Ying found that his clone could not disrupt Yun Yan's judgment, he gradually became panicked.
Yun Yan noticed that Hu Ying's soul power aura was obviously not as stable as before, and began to fluctuate violently, which meant that he was aware of the approaching danger.
When Hu Ying was desperate, he could only choose the last resort. He suddenly changed direction and ran straight towards the bottomless chasm in the east.
Only in this way, Yun Yan saves the trouble of searching for traces in unfamiliar places. He only needs to do his best to force Hu Ying to the natural chasm, and Hu Ying will have no way to retreat.
Obviously, it was impossible for Hu Ying to choose such a dead end, but Yun Yan couldn't guess what his plans were.
But now there is less than an hour left. This is Yunyan's last chance, so he has no time to think about it.
As Yun Yan eliminated all interference and pursued with all his strength, the distance between the two of them was shortening sharply. Even within Yun Yan's sight, he could already vaguely see traces of Hu Ying.
This situation lasted for less than a quarter of an hour, and Hu Ying had already entered a killing distance that Yun Yan could kill.
This time Yun Yan did not hold back, and saw a light curtain suddenly appear in front of Hu Ying. This was a barrier formed by countless sword lights.
Although Yun Yan knew nothing about swordsmanship, the cold jade long sword was a low-grade spiritual weapon. Even if it was used as an ordinary weapon, it could still pose a great threat to Hu Ying.
When Hu Ying discovered that a sword curtain suddenly appeared in front of him, he looked like a tiger wandering the wall. He rose vertically against the sword curtain, and then continued to fly forward across the sword curtain.
Seeing such a strange scene, Yun Yan couldn't help but marvel. He didn't expect that Hu Ying's light body technique had been practiced to this extent.
Then, Yun Yan leaned forward and took advantage of his strength, jumped out, flew straight to the top of Hu Ying's head, and shot down from the sky with a backhand palm.
At the same time, a flame emerged from Yun Yan's palm. This flame quickly spread to the surroundings as it fell, and instantly formed an upside-down circular flame prison.
Seeing that he had no way to escape, Hu Ying tried his best to break through the flame barrier.
However, when his soul power just came into contact with this strange flame, there was an unbearable pain from the depths of his soul sea.
Hu Ying had never heard of this method of directly attacking the source of the life soul. He couldn't even understand how Yun Yan could have such a strange flame.
Moreover, Hu Ying also discovered that as the clouds and smoke fell from his head, the flame barrier surrounding him was rapidly shrinking.
In order not to turn into ashes in an instant, Hu Ying tried his best to use his soul power to stop Yun Yan's whereabouts, but the price for doing so was to endure even more intense torture from the sea of souls.
Just when Hu Ying was almost desperate, the black armor he was wearing suddenly exploded, and countless black armor fragments instantly formed and shot out in all directions.
Although these
Most of the exploded armor fragments were turned into ashes when they passed through the flame barrier, but some of them still shot into the sky above.
Yun Yan discovered that the armor fragments all released a cloud of black gas during the process of being incinerated by the flames. Obviously, these armor fragments were highly poisonous.
Before Yun Yan knew the lethality of this poison, he did not dare to take risks easily. However, as long as he stopped his move, Hu Ying would definitely not miss such an opportunity.
So, the moment Yun Yan retracted the flame cage and burned the remaining armor fragments, the cold jade sword in her right hand went straight through the flame barrier and stabbed Hu Ying's head.
He must not let Hu Ying leave, otherwise there will be endless troubles.
However, after all, Hu Ying has been practicing for hundreds of years. He has experienced the moments of life and death countless times. These experiences of escaping from death allowed him to make the most correct choice at this moment.
Hu Ying was seen concentrating all his profound energy, and raised his right arm to catch Yun Yan's sword from above his head.
With a hissing sound of metal being cut, Yun Yan's cold jade long sword cut off Hu Ying's right arm. Because the cold air was retained wherever the long sword passed, Hu Ying was wrapped in soft armor. The broken arm wound inside was completely frozen in an instant.
However, Hu Ying finally saved his life, because if he had been slower just now, what fell to the ground instead of his right arm would have been his head. ..
Looking at the stumps on the ground that were gradually frozen, Hu Ying said with a pale face.
"You can even break through my fine steel and soft armor. Is this your true strength?"
Yun Yan did not answer Hu Ying's question. He just slowly raised his sword and pointed at Hu Ying again.
"There is still a quarter of an hour, enough for me to kill you."
Hu Ying never thought that this seemingly kind-hearted young man would never be ambiguous once he made a decision.
"It seems that what I thought was right, your personality is so similar to that of my second mother."
Yun Yan looked at Hu Ying who had given up on survival and said coldly.
"You still have the nerve to mention her. I think the person Ye Erniang hates the most is you, a ruthless bystander, so you should use your life to confess to her!"
After saying that, Yun Yan's sword flashed and pierced Hu Ying's throat.
Just when Hu Ying was about to die on the spot, he suddenly let out a hysterical cry.
"help me!"
