Chapter 549: Chapter 250: Pursuit_3

But in the blink of an eye during a turn, his figure suddenly vanished into the darkness.

Su Mo was stunned:

“Didn’t you say you weren’t scared?”

As soon as he finished speaking, without the slightest hesitation, he stopped in his tracks, and a purple light suddenly burst forth around him.

The Night Lord’s move of Abandoning Light for Darkness relies on the enveloping darkness.

Su Mo, with his Pure Yang Inner Strength, released outwardly, made the pitch-black corridor suddenly seem as if an extra purple sun had appeared.

This instantly left the Night Lord with nowhere to hide.

He flew forward with a palm strike, heading straight for Su Mo.

“Bring it on!”

Where was Su Mo afraid of him?

But between the probing palms, the technique used was the Great Opening Sun Dispersal Hand.

The Great Opening Sun Dispersal Hand seems to be about opening wide and closing tight, but in reality, it’s clumsiness concealing ingenuity.

The Night Lord was solely focused on escaping; how could he seriously clash with Su Mo?

Su Mo understood this point too; had he really used techniques like the Ziyang Divine Palm or Three Suns Burning Heart Palm, he would inevitably get entangled for a few moves, and in the end, the Night Lord would have gotten away.

Instead, using the Great Opening Sun Dispersal Hand, with its interconnected moves, he made it impossible for the Night Lord to escape.

However, Su Mo had somewhat underestimated the Night Lord’s martial arts.

He, relying on the Wuzhou divine Demon Record and having Inner Strength only a notch below Su Mo’s,

Is also one of the few grandmasters in the world when it comes to the subtleties of techniques.

Between the exchanges of blows, his tactfulness and adaptations were impeccable, seeing that Su Mo forwent the Ziyang Divine Palm, he immediately transformed his palm into a claw.

With a flick of his fingers, layers of dark energy spread, and with a mere grasp, he had already dismantled over a dozen changes with Su Mo in a brief span of time.

The corridor here was very narrow, limiting the execution of their techniques.

Now, in this limited space, both displayed their learned skills, each move demonstrating exquisite brilliance.

However, such an exchange was to the Night Lord’s disadvantage.

With his martial arts, if he were to confront head-on, he was no match for Su Mo.

Now being forced to counter each move Su Mo made, each time their palms touched, he felt the burning sear of Su Mo’s Pure Yang Inner Strength.

What’s more, Su Mo’s body was as hard as steel.

The Great Opening Sun Dispersal Hand might appear to the Night Lord as mere trivial tricks, but when executed by Su Mo, it was incredibly forceful.

Even on occasions when he revealed an opening, after landing a blow, aside from a slight pain in his fingers due to the rebounding force, he couldn’t inflict even the slightest scratch on Su Mo.

At this moment, the Night Lord felt the same powerlessness that the Youquan Sect master did before his death.

How… how was he supposed to fight this?

In a moment of distraction, Su Mo’s claw had already breached the defense of the Night Lord’s arms, reaching for his neck.

Just as the grab seemed certain, both felt a tremor beneath their feet.

It turned out the stairs had finally reached the top.

Without a second thought, the Night Lord conjured a shadow that shot up from under his feet, which Su Mo’s grab passed right through.

Meanwhile, the actual Night Lord leaped towards the hall, and in an instant, he was inside.

By the time Su Mo emerged from the corridor with the human skin in hand, he saw the Night Lord standing in front of the Hundred Demons Statue, turning around to smile at Su Mo.

Then, his hands moved with blinding speed, striking dozens of the statues in an instant.

“Good grief…”

Even Su Mo hadn’t anticipated this move.

Looking back, he saw the Hundred Demons Statues suddenly rotate, not all in the same direction.

The orientation of the statues seemed to cover every corner of the hall.

Soon after, the whooshing sounds were incessant.

From their mouths, slender and sharp steel needles shot out, blanketing the area like rain.

The Night Lord, standing right before the Hundred Demons Statue, was the primary target.

But when the steel needles swept through, he had already disappeared.

Only a human skin was left in his place.

Su Mo let out a shout, and the sound of a bell resounded around him; a Golden Bell shield descended, blocking all the incoming steel needles.

Then, with a point of his foot, he rose up in length, and with a booming sound, he broke through the roof and jumped into the darkness.

Looking ahead, he saw a black shadow fleeing towards the direction of Chimei Forest.

After a relentless pursuit until now, if the Night Lord managed to escape into Chimei Forest, with his knowledge of the landscape within,

It would indeed be difficult for Su Mo to kill or capture him today!

He immediately bellowed:

“Night Lord, if you dare, stop running!”

With that, he leaped into motion, a flash of purple light revealing that he had employed the technique ‘Purple Qi Comes from the East’ that he had learned from Li Zhengyuan.

This technique was a movement method, offering no remarkable powers for travel.

However, at this moment, in mid-air, the application of the movement method led him right to the courtyard wall.

Following another light step, he executed Divine Transformation, heading straight for the Night Lord.

Inside Wangliang Courtyard were still Youquan Sect Disciples, but these ragtag forces had already been thoroughly subdued by Eternal Night Valley’s people.

And there weren’t many from Eternal Night Valley present there.

With merely a few dozen in number, they were searching through Wangliang Courtyard.

Now hearing Su Mo’s shout of ‘Night Lord, if you dare, stop running’ from above, they were all dumbfounded.

In their hearts, they wondered who would be so bold and unafraid of death?

What was the meaning behind those words?

Was it suggesting that the Night Lord had fled?

Across Donghuang, even the Sect Leaders of the Seven Great Sects wouldn’t dare to say such things!

And who would dare to do so within Wangliang Courtyard?

But looking up, they truly saw the Night Lord fleeing in misery under the veil of night, and indeed, someone was in hot pursuit.

Both were moving like gliding lights, exhibiting exceptional Qinggong.

However, in the blink of an eye, both had vanished from sight.

But in that brief moment, everyone present witnessed the Night Lord’s disheveled escape,

And Su Mo… his domineering presence.

His entire body flickered with purple light, shining fiercely as if with devilish flames engulfing the sky!

Where did this demon come from?

Who could make the Night Lord run for his life?

The disciples of Eternal Night Valley quickly stood up, preparing to join the pursuit and halt the enemy.

Yet they heard Night Lord’s voice coming from afar:

“Leave this place at once, and recall the Ghost Shadow Seven Sects, do not reveal yourselves!”

By now, he naturally knew who Su Mo was.

Since Su Mo was here, it was likely all previous schemes had already crumbled.

To claim Wangliang Courtyard was even more out of the question.

It was best to leave immediately.

And after uttering those words, he shouted back angrily:

“Do you truly not care about the fate of Liuyin City?”

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