Urban God-level Youth

Too fast.

A Supreme Realm expert's divine teleportation is indeed too fast, leaving one completely defenseless.

Teleportation divine skill is the destiny skill of a Supreme Realm expert. Once one breaks through to the Supreme Realm, they can perform spatial displacement, essentially instantaneous movement.

From distances of a few dozen meters to hundreds, and even tens of thousands of miles, it's akin to a transmission array.

Bai Lingjia's situation was slightly better than Qin Hao's, because she had experience, whereas Qin Hao was fighting Supreme experts for the first time.

"These Supreme experts' teleportations have flaws to exploit. Use your divine sense carefully to feel the surrounding space," Bai Lingjia transmitted to Qin Hao.

One Supreme expert was besieging Qin Hao, two others surrounded Bai Lingjia. Her situation was even more perilous than Qin Hao's.

"Whoosh"

That Supreme expert vanished again into the night sky, Qin Hao's divine sense spread out, carefully inspecting within a hundred-meter radius.

Suddenly, the space behind him had a slight fluctuation, Qin Hao turned and swung out his spear, the spear light just flew out when a figure appeared there.

"Courting death!"

The person snorted coldly, his hand transforming into a claw, smashing through the spear light, then gripping onto Qin Hao's shoulder.

Blood splattered, Qin Hao shouted, and the Nine-character True Words divine skill was unleashed.

Golden seals flowed around Qin Hao's body; because of the sudden attack, the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion's Supreme Realm expert was caught off guard, struck by several golden seals, and his figure retreated violently, yet he was unharmed.

"Nine-character True Words divine skill? How do you possess the Nine-character True Words divine skill?"

The Supreme Realm expert looked at the golden symbols swirling around Qin Hao, showing surprise for the first time in his lofty gaze.

His surprise stemmed from knowing the origin of the Nine-character True Words divine skill, a top-tier divine skill from ancient times, rumored to, once perfected, render the sun and moon pale, mountains and rivers shattered, terrifying beyond measure.

Clearly, this Hao Tian could not fully wield the power of the Nine-character True Words yet, such a skill in his hands is truly wasted; today, I shall take it for my own use.

...

"Bang bang bang"

This Supreme Realm expert began attacking head-on, realizing sneak attacks were futile for such a perceptive young prodigy who could sense spatial fluctuations.

Direct attack is the quickest way to kill.

"Bang bang bang"

Both sides clashed, brilliance blooming, and a myriad of colorful lights scattered.

Qin Hao left hand wielded the Heavenly Gang Palm Seal, right hand the Earth Evil Fist Seal, yet even so, he was beaten back step by step, the gap between them being a major realm, not a typical one, but a realm of Supreme experts.

Even peak Void-breaking Realm experts facing a First-Order Supreme Realm expert have no chance to counter, showing the terrifying might of Supreme experts.

That Qin Hao and Bai Lingjia could hold on was already extraordinarily defiant.

These three Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion experts, although only First-Order Supreme Realm, were not ones Qin Hao and Bai Lingjia could resist.

Minutes later, Qin Hao was wounded severely, his body stained red with blood, Bai Lingjia's state was even worse; with two Supreme experts besieging her, she coughed blood, her body had dozens of wounds, pierced by sword light and blade light.

Now, they couldn't even think of breaking the spatial blockade; persisting a few more minutes would be considered fortunate.

"Bang bang"

Qin Hao and Bai Lingjia were sent flying again, spraying blood from their mouths, landing heavily on the ground.

"Miss Bai, use whatever trump cards you have, or we'll both die," Qin Hao said to her, not believing Bai Lingjia didn't have a trump card; surely, as a top prodigy of the Xingyue Palace, she'd have means to shield herself.

Bai Lingjia produced a milky white jade pendant, infused it with spiritual energy, and suddenly a powerful aura emanated from the pendant, terrifying beyond measure.

This powerful aura made the faces of those three Supreme Realm experts change slightly.

Bai Lingjia transmitted to Qin Hao: "This is a talisman crafted by my teacher using top-quality jade. It can unleash a strike to break this spatial blockade. I will activate the teleportation talisman to leave here.

"Boom"

At that moment, a world-shaking sword light shot out from the jade pendant, twisting and shattering the void, creating space rifts.

"Crack"

The spatial blockade shattered, Bai Lingjia grabbed Qin Hao, activated the teleportation talisman in her hand, and in a flash, they vanished from the wilderness.

Those three Supreme Realm experts saw this, a slight smirk appearing on their lips, as if their escape was no surprise.

...

The land of Dongzhou, in a mansion in the Holy Tang Dynasty's Nanming City.

Qin Hao and Bai Lingjia emerged from the spatial passage, appearing inside a room.

This was a young woman's bedroom, filled with a faint fragrance, refreshing and pleasant without being overwhelming.

Qin Hao surveyed the room, its arrangement and decorations gave a comfortable feeling, with a bathroom on the side.

"What is this place?" Qin Hao turned to Bai Lingjia and asked.

Bai Lingjia's clothes were tattered, exposing much of her skin, most of which was stained with blood.

"This is one of my secret places, located in the Holy Tang Dynasty of Dongzhou."

Qin Hao was taken aback: "Holy Tang Dynasty? Have we already reached Dongzhou?"

Bai Lingjia nodded: "That's right."

Qin Hao: "Had you brought it out sooner, we would have arrived here early, avoiding being surrounded by those bastards."

Bai Lingjia coughed: "That was a life-saving item, it couldn't be used lightly."

Qin Hao took out several Healing Holy Elixirs, consumed them, and began meditating, Bai Lingjia, being a disciple of the Xingyue Palace, surely possessed Healing Holy Elixirs too, so Qin Hao didn't offer her any.

The two meditated in the room to recover, and by the next morning, their conditions had improved considerably.

By now, they had changed into brand new clothes and stepped out of the room, outside stood two maids. Upon seeing Qin Hao and Bai Lingjia come out, their expressions slightly startled: "Greetings, miss; greetings, sir."

Sir?

"What sir?" Qin Hao was puzzled.

Bai Lingjia knew the maids misunderstood: "This is Haotian, not sir."

"Sorry, miss, greetings Haotian," the maid said.

Qin Hao casually shook his head, after all, having emerged from Bai Lingjia's room, it was difficult to explain, though there was no need to explain to them either.

This mansion was quite large, the two reached the main hall, and soon some food was brought to them.

Qin Hao ate while watching her: "Are we heading to the East Sea next?"

"I have an ominous feeling," Bai Lingjia replied with furrowed brows, "I fear this journey will be perilous, but that item is essential for me; missing it now means it will be too difficult to find later."

Qin Hao: "Isn't it time you tell me about the Butian Sect?"

"What do you want to know?"

Qin Hao: "Everything you know I want to know."

"In the Ancient Times, the Butian Sect was indeed in Dongzhou, but now it's gone, wiped out during the war at the end of the Ancient Times when many top powers were heavily damaged. They went into hiding, departed the Hidden Dragon Continent; the Butian Sect was no exception."

Listening to her words, Qin Hao thought about the ancient jade slips he had studied and pondered.

So those top forces of ancient times didn't disappear in the river of time? But retreated secretly? If that's true, then it all makes sense.

"Where did they go?"

Bai Lingjia: "I don't know where, but likely to their sect's secret realms, secret places; those sects even relocated their ancestral lands, that battle was too devastating."

"What exactly happened at the end of the Ancient Times? Why did so many top powers vanish, and why have numerous ancient cultivation techniques and divine skills been lost?"