Great Villain: Starting by Humiliating the Son of the Heavenly Fate

"See? He's already losing his patience!" Wen Renxiu laughed as he slipped past Lu Puxing's furious strike.

Boom!

One blow from a peak Nirvana Peering realm expert shattered dozens of mountain peaks. The ground itself rippled like water, sending up waves of stone and earth.

Magma burst from the depths, turning the landscape into a blazing sea of fire in the blink of an eye.

Then—a dragon's roar thundered from below, shaking the air with violent spatial ripples.

"It's down there!" several cultivators shouted at once, shock and urgency written across their faces.

"They're hiding deep beneath us!"

"Quick, seal it off!"

Sun Tianhan and Wen Renxiu froze, their groups just as stunned. None of them had expected their quarry to be hiding so close.

In an instant, countless Nirvana Peering realm experts dropped down, their crushing auras locking onto the fiery sea below. Even the power of the Great Dao laws surged into being, pressing mercilessly against the depths.

But the violent spatial ripples from underground suddenly spiked—then vanished without a trace.

Boom!

A storm of attacks rained down, blasting the molten sea apart. Lava hissed into nothingness on contact, the entire fiery ocean collapsing into a vast sinkhole that stretched for ten thousand fathoms.

When the dust cleared, the pit was empty. Jiang Chen and his group were nowhere to be found.

"They got away!" Sun Tianhan's face darkened, disbelief flashing in his eyes. "That true dragon can use spatial teleportation!"

One of his men shouted, "They've reappeared—twenty million kilometers to the north!"

Far off in the skies, violent spatial ripples spread out. A moment later, Ying Luo emerged with Jiang Chen and Lu Yi, fleeing at full speed.

"Chase!" Sun Tianhan roared, his figure turning into a streak of light as he tore across the heavens.

Yuan Liangjun and the others followed close behind.

"Go!" Wen Renxiu snapped, leading his group as they surged forward at their fastest.

At the same time, the trackers from both groups noticed the imprint flare back to life.

"The mark's active again," Sun Tianhan said, a cruel smile tugging at his lips. "So Jiang Chen's tricks aren't flawless after all."

"With this many of us, they're as good as dead," Yuan Liangjun added.

"Dead? That's too easy," another snarled. "They've butchered our people—I won't stop until he's begging for death."

Their fury boiled over, eyes bloodshot as they tore through the sky, desperate to close the gap and tear Jiang Chen apart.

But just then, Ying Luo let out another dragon's roar—Roar!—and space itself shuddered.

Whoosh!

The air split open, ripples spreading wide as she dove straight in, carrying Jiang Chen and Lu Yi out of sight once more.

"What! Two teleportations in a row?" Sun Tianhan and the others froze, eyes wide with disbelief.

Wen Renxiu's group looked just as shaken.

Even in the Compassionate Sword Immortal Palace, famed for space techniques, the best Liang Youwen could do was craft teleport talismans—and none of them could cover anything close to twenty million kilometers.

Even if Liang Youwen personally used his spatial arts, it would take time to prepare, nothing like Ying Luo's effortless roar that ripped space apart in an instant.

But shock or not, neither side slowed. Both groups pressed the chase, unwilling to let Jiang Chen slip away.

By now, Ying Luo's two teleportations had carried them forty million kilometers—but they were still within reach of peak Nirvana Peering realm experts' divine senses.

Neither Sun Tianhan's men nor Wen Renxiu's could believe it. A true dragon at the Nirvana Peering realm shouldn't be able to use spatial teleportation again.

That was something only Void Tribulation realm great powerhouses could manage. How could a mere Nirvana Peering realm demonic beast pull it off repeatedly?

But their certainty shattered in the next heartbeat.

Roar!!

Ying Luo roared once more, tearing through space and leaping another twenty million kilometers in an instant.

"This is impossible!" someone shouted.

"Even with a supreme bloodline, she's still only at the Nirvana Peering realm!"

"This makes no sense at all!"

Fifteen Nirvana Peering realm experts from both groups hovered in stunned disbelief.

Still, Ying Luo hadn't shaken them off yet. Their divine senses stretched far, locking firmly onto her presence.

"Faster! Don't let them get away again—we can't keep relying on the tracking mark," Sun Tianhan snarled, unleashing a secret art. Flames warped around him as his body shot forward, leaving a long distorted trail in the sky.

Yuan Liangjun and the others pushed hard to keep up.

Wen Renxiu's squad followed suit, activating their own techniques to close the gap.

The sudden burst of speed worked—the distance between them and Jiang Chen's group shrank fast. It looked like they would catch up at any moment.

But then, something no one expected happened.

Ying Luo suddenly shrank into a small form, coiling tightly around Jiang Chen's wrist.

Jiang Chen grabbed Lu Yi by the collar, and in the next breath his speed exploded, blasting far ahead of the pursuers.

Everyone froze in disbelief.

"That bastard Jiang Chen—how can he be this fast?!" Sun Tianhan's roar shook with both fury and shock.

"Damn it, he's too fast. The gap's only getting bigger—at this rate we'll never catch him," Wen Renxiu muttered, frustration twisting his face.

Both groups grew grim. Shock mixed with the bitter taste of defeat.

They were supposed to be the brightest stars of the Prosperous Stone Immortal Star, hailed as untouchable among their peers.

Yet all of them together couldn't match Jiang Chen.

Lu Yi was just as shaken.

"This is insane! Isn't this speed close to the Nirvana Cleansing realm already?" he blurted, never imagining Jiang Chen could move like this.

"We're nowhere near Nirvana Cleansing-level speed. I'm just using a secret art—it won't last long," Jiang Chen said, shaking his head. He forced his face to flush as if straining under the pressure, then gradually slowed his pace.

"Jiang Chen, don't push yourself!" Lu Yi's expression tightened with worry.

"Relax. Once Ying Luo recovers, we can shake them off," Jiang Chen replied, his gaze firm and steady.

"You're really something," Lu Yi said, admiration in his eyes.

But he had no idea—Jiang Chen was only putting on a show.

In reality, Jiang Chen's combat strength had already reached the Middle-stage Nirvana Cleansing realm. With the Nine-Pointed Radiant Star Ring boosting him, his speed rivaled even Late-stage Nirvana Cleansing realm powerhouses.

What he was showing now—barely at half-step Nirvana Cleansing realm—was nothing to him. It was like taking a casual stroll.

Behind him, Sun Tianhan, Wen Renxiu, and their followers noticed the drop in speed. Relief flickered across their faces.

"He can't keep it up! We'll have them soon!" Sun Tianhan shouted, hope surging back into his eyes.

"Push harder! Don't hold back—we're almost there!" Wen Renxiu barked.

The Nirvana Peering realm cultivators responded like men given a fresh dose of battle spirit. Faces flushed, veins bulging at their temples, they drove themselves into an even more desperate chase.

Jiang Chen deliberately slowed even more, letting his pace fall in line with his pursuers before slipping just ahead of them.

He was stringing Sun Tianhan and Wen Renxiu along, dragging them into a war of endurance.

And just as he expected, they fell for it completely.

Certain they were on the verge of catching him, they chased with a crazed determination, never realizing they were being led by the nose.

Time ticked by.