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several figures sped rapidly, with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling. The howling winds made the wild beasts and little demons in the outskirts tremble with fear.

"Stop!"

Lu Yuan roared furiously as he enveloped himself in the Limitless Thunder Tao, accelerating swiftly in an attempt to intercept Li Hao.

But Li Hao's movement technique was extremely elusive, and whenever Lu Yuan was about to make contact, Li Hao would abruptly change direction and speed up.

This kid's movement technique obviously hasn't been pushed to its limit yet!

Bang!

Suddenly, a divine fire attacked, and Li Hao hurriedly dodged, narrowly missing it by a whisker as it zoomed past his side.

Yet the scorching heat of the attack left him feeling burning pains, an attack that could easily meld ordinary divine weapons!

"If you keep running, I'll turn around and go back to kill all the people there!"

The Candle Flame God threatened Li Hao with a grim look in his eyes.

He had long realized that Li Hao was deliberately attracting them, so that the people on the battlefield could survive a little longer—how naive!

Upon hearing this, Li Hao let out a faint cold laugh, "I wish you would!"

After speaking, he burst forth at full speed and charged into the distance.

The Candle Flame God, infuriated, wanted to stay behind and turn back to threaten Li Hao by attacking the battlefield.

But when Li Hao suddenly accelerated, it made the Candle Flame God slightly uncertain.

After only a moment's hesitation, he resumed the chase.

Compared to the people on the battlefield, Li Hao was absolutely not someone they could afford to lose track of.

"Or how about you all chase after him, and I'll go clean up that battlefield!" Lu Yuan shouted loudly.

These words were also meant for Li Hao to hear.

Upon hearing this, Li Hao didn't slow down; on the contrary, his speed gradually increased.

The Candle Flame God and Ms. Yin's expressions grew darker, and they didn't respond.

Seeing that Li Hao was unaffected and both of them remained silent, Lu Yuan felt both angry and frustrated, realizing that backing off was not an option—it would lead to trouble later.

Whoosh!

Li Hao sped ahead, judging the distance from here, he sequentially activated the previously closed acceleration attributes from his Illustrated Handbook.

His velocity continued to increase, leaving Lu Yuan and the others further and further behind.

"He can still accelerate!"

Lu Yuan was furious. With a roar, lightning surged into his body, his bones thundering in the roar of thunder, slightly increasing his speed, but he still couldn't catch up with Li Hao.

The movement techniques of both the Candle Flame God and Ms. Yin were also extremely fast, but they could only watch helplessly as Li Hao got further and further away!

"Damn it, his speed is abnormal!"

"What movement technique is that? It seems familiar!"

"Some thief who came to steal from our Great Void Realm before used that movement technique, damn it!"

The Candle Flame God and Ms. Yin were both enraged; if they let Li Hao escape, they wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully.

They all exploded with their true power, chasing at full speed, and even resorted to using some secret techniques and cultivation techniques that injured their bodies, just barely avoiding being thrown off by Li Hao.

Li Hao felt the three pursuers closely tailing him and his expression darkened. He had burst forth to the extreme, yet still could not shake them off; those in the Ultimate Study Realm were not easy opponents.

If only his movement technique had reached the Seventh Stage, perhaps he could have easily shaken them off.

Li Hao's eyes scanned around as he looked beneath the feet at the cities of Liangzhou swiftly passing by.

These cities, previously overwhelmed by a demon tide, were left in ruin, with only the remnants of destruction and bloodied corpses everywhere.

As Li Hao raced along, seeing many large and small ruined towns, he took a deep breath, thinking of the family letter sent by Second Brother earlier, mentioning that Fourth Uncle.

His eyes swept over the name of a ruined city to determine the direction, and he sped toward another location on the outskirts of Liangzhou at full speed.

This lightning-fast chase spanned thousands of miles.

It was only because Li Hao himself possessed a Heaven and Earth Vein, akin to the support of the Unwithering Strength, that he managed to hold on without exhausting his power.

However, Lu Yuan and the three in the Ultimate Study Realm, including the Candle Flame God, were already panting heavily.

An all-out sprint covering thousands of miles with no pause for breath was exhausting even for them.

Although they could instantaneously travel dozens or hundreds of miles, that burst of speed came with massive Qi Force consumption and couldn't last long.

At that moment, without using Unwithering Strength, they all felt utterly drained.

Previously, Lu Yuan had crossed tens of thousands of miles to reach Heavenly Gate Pass, flying leisurely without feeling tired, and the bit of Qi Force he used was naturally replenished with breath.

But now, in this desperate chase without a moment to rest,

they were angry that while they were fast approaching their limits, that kid still kept his speed, as though his strength was inexhaustible.

They suspected that Li Hao might have already used his Unwithering Strength.

If so, once Li Hao's speed began to wane, it would be their turn to burst forth with Unwithering Strength at full speed, to prevent Li Hao from having enough rest to use his Unwithering Strength again.

In the blink of an eye, Li Hao arrived at the western border of Liangzhou.

He immediately saw that, on the vast land, war fires spread everywhere.

The bodies of the Liangzhou Army and the Demons lay intermingled in battle, fallen on this blood-red battlefield.

Countless banners lay torn, chariots overturned, defenses shattered.

Li Hao's expression was solemn; it was not hard to imagine the scale of the battle that had erupted here before. He did not linger but flew straight over, breaking out from the border and then speeding towards the nine o'clock direction.

The three Demon Kings following closely behind him seemed to slow down their pace.

Li Hao immediately slowed down as well, to avoid exhausting them to the point of collapse and having to return to the battlefield.

Seeing Li Hao decelerate, Lu Yuan and the Candle Flame God were overjoyed and suddenly increased their speed, chasing after Li Hao once again.

But at this moment, Li Hao accelerated again, maintaining the distance between them.

Both sides were probing each other.

While Li Hao was fleeing at high speed, he also surveyed his surroundings, using the mountains and rivers to discern his direction.

He was already familiar with the Geomantic Chart of Liangzhou, having seen a copy of it during his time at the Listening Rain Tower.

After all, Liangzhou had been defended by the Li Family for many years.

There were nineteen provinces in total, with each Divine General Mansion guarding three to four provinces!

Originally, each mansion guarded three provinces, but since the Mo River incident extended into the Dayu territory, the Wang Family was ordered to establish the Mo River Authority. After dealing with the Mo River issue, they had no choice but to cede some of their provinces.

This indirectly weakened the military power of the Wang Family.

Many secrets lay hidden behind this event, but those were stories from hundreds of years ago, too old and forgotten, remembered only by the older generation.

The enmities and grudges between the dynasties and the noble families over thousands of years were too complex, with too much hatred and also too much forgiveness.

By the time of Li Hao's generation, the fact that the five Divine General Mansions were still coexisting peacefully was already an extremely rare and difficult situation.

Swoosh!

Li Hao recognized his location and shifted direction, flying towards another location.

"This lad seems to be heading towards that place," Ms. Yin remarked upon seeing Li Hao's movement, her expression changing slightly.

The Candle Flame God narrowed his eyes slightly; he had already figured out the clues and said coldly, "I heard that the fourth elder of the Li Family is guarding near that Mo River. Hmph, thinking of using the other party to escape? If he comes, he dies!"

Had they been in close combat, if he had unleashed his Dao Domain, he wouldn't have even considered the Ultimate Study Realm as a threat.

Lu Yuan also realized Li Hao's intentions and said with a somber face, "If that fourth elder of the Li Family is there, you deal with that brat, and I'll hold off the Li Family's elder!"

"What if he enters the Mo River?" Ms. Yin asked hastily.

"Then he'll die even faster!"

Lu Yuan sneered and said, "We'll enter too. I've been into the Mo River once before. Speaking of which, that river still imprisons the True Dragon of the previous generation of the Li Family. That True Dragon was personally slain by our leader!"

Hearing his words, the Candle Flame God and Ms. Yin exchanged glances, their eyes flashing but remaining silent, and they sped up to pursue.

As mountains and rivers rapidly passed by, spanning over two thousand li, Li Hao saw many Demons claiming mountains as their own, but he paid no heed.

Finally.

The number of Demons around diminished, and for three to four hundred li in a row, no trace of Demons was seen.

Li Hao arrived in front of a magnificent and perilous mountain range, where all the peaks appeared as if they had been sharpened by someone. Amidst these mountains was a dark river leading underground.

The river water was pitch black.

Dark water forms the abyss!

In the middle section of this river, at a fractured gap in one of the mountain peaks, lay a beach covered in white rubble stones.

On the edge of the beach stood a massive stele, more than thirty feet tall, inscribed with a few black characters:

Divine General Mo River!

Next to the stele was a figure in a bamboo hat, with tattered clothing, holding a black rusted sword, leaning against the stele and drinking.

As Li Hao caught sight of him, the man also noticed Li Hao.

Soon, he saw the three Demon Kings trailing behind Li Hao.

The old man's eyes seemed to squint slightly.

Then, all of a sudden, the figure in the bamboo hat disappeared.

Swish!

Suddenly, a sharp flash of sword light, as if to split the heavens and the earth, abruptly swept up in front of the three Demons chasing after Li Hao!

Lu Yuan shrank his head back, narrowly avoiding being cleaved by the sword light. He could sense that if it had truly hit him, even with his refined flesh, he would have been seriously injured!

The Candle Flame God and Ms. Yin were both forced to stop by the sword light.

Seeing this, Li Hao instantly knew that this old man was none other than Li Xiaoran, the fourth elder of the Li Family!

"The Three Immortal Realms?"

A leisurely voice rang out by Li Hao's ear.

Li Hao looked up to see that the other party had appeared beside him at some unknown time, the face under the bamboo hat looked worn with time, yet seemed to be just past sixty, with a hint of his youthful handsome vigor still visible.

Presumably, he too was an extraordinary and distinguished talent in his youth!