Faced with a team hunting him down, Lin Hao had been on the run for a day and a night.

  He discovered that among those pursuing him were not only disciples from the Xuan Yi but also quite a few from other sects.

  The Xuan Yi disciples were after him because of his bad reputation within the sect, which he could somewhat uand.

  But what were disciples from other sects doing here? This group really had no sense of boundaries.

  "Anroup is ing!" Shui Ling'er's face showed a hint of surprise.

  Lin Hao looked up to see more than ten people approag, all exuding a murderous aura.

  The situation was tense, and they o flee.

  The two of them used their escape teique, transf into streaks of light as they left.

  Relying on this teique, they had evaded several pursuits, but this time they entered a tough oppo.

  The tail behind them couldn't be shaken off, and the distance was closing in.

  "Up ahead is the heartnd of the Qingqiu Demon . Should we keep going?"

  A thin yer of speared on Shui Ling'er's delicate face, causing her hair to stick to her skin, adding a certain charm.

  But in their current state of being hunted, Lin Hao had no time to admire her beauty. He gnced back at the pursuers closing in and gritted his teeth.

  "Go!"

  Entering the demon 's heartnd, they might enter powerful demons, which could be life-threatening.

  But if they didn't go in, he felt they were in danger now.

  The pursuers might not have murderous i, or they might. No one could say for sure.

  As he had previously told Uncle Bd others, in this vast wilderness, a person's death could go unnoticed.

  He and Shui Ling'er ehe demon 's heartnd, ran for more than a mile, and notio one behind them. They quickly turned back to look.

  They saw the pursuers standing at the entrao the heartnd, hesitating.

  It seemed they didn't dare to enter.

  Lin Hao let out a long sigh of relief.

  Luckily, these guys were timid; otherwise, it would have been a real problem.

  With no orag them, they felt at ease.

  He and Shui Liook a brief rest and prepared to traverse a se of the heartnd to pletely shake off the pursuers.

  The two of them followed a rge river, moving upstream.

  However, they hadn't gone far when a huge wave rose from the river!

  The river water densed inte tiger, poung toward Lin Hao.

  Buzz!

  The Fire Spirit Sword responded, uhing itself.

  It sshed out a heavenly fire, and the scorg sword energy split the water tiger in half, evaporating the water vapor.

  Having succeeded with one move, Lin Hao didn't linger in battle, pulling Shui Ling'er along as they ran.

  Two breaths ter, a woman in white emerged from the river, a look of surprise fshing across her elegant face.

  Lin Hao, the ruthless man colluding with demons, turned out to be a coward?

  He fled before even engaging in battle.

  You little thief, do you think you escape?

  The woman in white formed a hand seal, and the river beh her feet transformed into a water boat.

  She stood at the bow, breaking through the waves.

  Her speed was incredibly fast, catg up in the blink of an eye.

  "Water Binding Teique!"

  She ted, and then a rope-like stream of river water soward Lin Hao to bind him.

  Lin Hao hadn't expected someoo ambush him in the demon 's heartnd.

  He had thought that those who ehis area were the elite disciples from various sects, here only to sy demons.

  Who would have thought that these genius disciples would also give him trouble?

  Moreover, the woman ambushing him was no ordinary oppo.

  The snake-like river water, as fast as lightning, coiled toward Lin Hao, who quickly used a move called Su Qin's Sword on the Back to resolve the crisis.

  If he kept running, he'd bee a sitting duck.

  Lin Hao stopped fleeing and turo face the ambusher.

  At a gnce, he reized the pursuer's identity.

  Wang Shihan, a genius female disciple from Little Bamboo Peak, at the peak of Foundatioablishment. In terms of both strength ay, she was sed only to Ning Qingxue among the female disciples of the Xuan Yi in the Foundatioablishment stage.

  She had ranked seventh i inner sepetition!

  Who would have thought such a genius would e to hunt him down!

  "Wang Shihan, we have no old grudges or ret enmity. Why ambush me?" Lin Hao stood tall and asked.

  The water surged, transf into tless droplets, like a torrential rain.

  Yet Wang Shihan's clothes remained dry. She coldly replied, "Lin Hao, you collude with demons and harbor ill iions. As a sect disciple, I should stand up to sy demons and eliminate evil. What do you mean by nes?"

  So it was another self-righteous person, ign the truth and only seeing what they wao see.

  Lin Hao's heart turned cold, and he shouted angrily, "Hmph, you say I collude with demons, but have I ever harmed a fellow disciple? Have I ever done anythirimental to the sect? Instead, you attack me while I'm fleeing, vioting the sect's rules!"

  "Good and evil ot coexist. To deal with someone like you who willingly falls into depravity, there's o care about the means, as long as you're sin!"

  "Do you know what happeo those beautiful female cultivators who tried to kill me? If you want to join them, go ahead!" Lin Hao sneered.

  Upon hearing this, Wang Shihan's face ged, and she shouted angrily, "Beast, prepare to die!"

  Wang Shihan raised her hand and tossed a small cauldron into the air, a Yellow-level top-grade magical treasure, the Demon Suppressing Cauldron!

  The small cauldron flew into the air, growing rger with the wind, and in an instant, it was the size of a house.

  Wang Shihan flicked her finger, sending a stream of spiritual power into the cauldron.

  Roar!

  A ferocious water dragon emerged from the cauldron, its might overwhelming!

  This was a demo she had subdued, with strength parable to the te Foundatioablishment stage!

  As soon as the water dragon appeared, it roared at Lin Hao, sending out thousands of water arrows.

  Seeing this, Lin Hao merely snorted coldly, "Foolish woman, you were the one who attacked first, saying you wao kill me. The rec stone has recorded it all!"

  A trace of surprise fshed across Wang Shihan's brow. This demon-colluding sdrel was so cautious, keeping evidehinking of frontier?

  She ughed coldly, "Even if you use a rec sto's useless. Today, you'll fall here!"

  "Let's see!"

  Lin Hao shouted, sshing out a fiery sword energy.

  Then he pulled out a handful of talismans from his talisman box, holding them between two fingers, and ted a few intations.

  Suddenly, thousands of fmes appeared in the air, anized like a military formation, transf into fire arrows that shot toward the water arrows.

  Water and fire were inpatible, but this time, fire had the upper hand.

  The fire arrows ralized the water arrows, with thousands remaining, some targeting the water dragon, others Wang Shihan.

  The heat wave from the fire arrows raised the temperature of this small area slightly.

  Wang Shihan's hair fluttered, and a serious expression fshed across her pretty face.

  "You sdrel, so extravagant, using middle-grade sed-tier talismans like paper?"

  These talismans were all drawn by Lin Hao himself, so the cost table. If he had bought them, he wouldn't have used them so freely.

  "Wretched woman, the ohing I don't ck is talismans."

  With that, he took out three Goldealismans from his talisman box. After using them, three golden bdes shot forward.

  They quickly overtook the thousands of fire arrows, reag Wang Shihan in an instant.

  The woman remained calm, pulling out an embroidered handkerchief from her bulging bosom. After infusing it with magic power, the tiger on the handkerchief leaped out, deftly catg the three golden bdes.

  The tiger's body expanded with the wind, f a wall of flesh.

  The scorg fire arrows struck the tiger's body, but it was like hitting divine iron, even sparking.

  What an impressive defense, Lin Hao silently praised.

  Then he moved in close.

  He hadn't expected the talismans to achieve much; they were just a means to deplete the woman's resources.

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