“Meng Hao, fighting like this is meaningless. Since you don’t really feel like continuing, then I, Chen, will just take my leave….” Obviously, Dao-Heaven was his Daoist name, whereas his true surname was Chen. With that, Dao-Heaven fled, his expression normal, but his heart filled with vigilance.
“Based on his personality,” he thought, “if he actually stops fighting because of what I said, then I’ll know he’s trying to trick me!” As Dao-Heaven fled, his expression and demeanor made it seem as if he truly wished to get away.
Meng Hao’s face was covered by the Divine Flame, and as such, Dao-Heaven couldn’t see anything more than Meng Hao’s eyes. Those eyes didn’t change at all, and in fact, grew colder than ever. Even as Dao-Heaven attempted to flee, Meng Hao caused the starstone in his eyes to melt, covering his body so that he transformed into a planet!
It was a planet wreathed in Divine Flame, making it look like a shooting star as it sped after Dao-Heaven.
Based on its speed and trajectory, it really seemed as if he wanted to catch up.
Dao-Heaven realized this, and his expression turned dark.
“So he really does still have enough power to stay in that Realm!!” Even as Meng Hao closed in, Dao-Heaven suddenly increased his speed. In a flash, he was a great distance away.
“Meng Hao,” he called behind him, “have you met a girl named Xue’er yet?
“If not, I should really leave you alive so that you have a chance to meet her!
“Next time we run into each other, though, that will be the day you die!” Laughing, he shot off with incredible speed.
“Pipe down!” Meng Hao said from within the planet, his voice echoing out with incredible pressure. He continued to give chase for another several thousand meters. However, considering Dao-Heaven’s incredible speed, soon there was no trace of him. Meng Hao slowly came to a stop. The planet disappeared, and his human form reappeared.
He looked no different than he usually did. The Nirvana Fruit emerged from his forehead and dropped into his hand. He hovered there in midair, expression cold, looking in the direction Dao-Heaven had fled. Finally, he gave a cold harrumph, turned, and headed off in a different direction.
He took his time leaving, and as for the direction he chose, it was none other than the Third Nation.
Not long after he disappeared over the horizon, a strand of black smoke appeared on the battlefield. It swirled together in midair to reveal an illusory image of Dao-Heaven, frowning. As Meng Hao disappeared in the distance, he let out a sigh.
“So, he wasn’t trying to trick me. After fighting me, he actually chose to go to the Third Nation! This Meng Hao… is a formidable opponent.” The illusory figure shook his head, then vanished.
Meanwhile, Meng Hao was calmly making his way across the border of the Fourth Nation and into the Third Nation.
As soon as he entered the Third Nation, he staggered to a stop and coughed up eight successive mouthfuls of blood. With each mouthful of blood, his body wasted away by ten percent. After only a few breaths of time had passed, he was so skinny that he looked like nothing more than a bag of bones. His hair had even turned completely gray.
His expression lackluster, he very nearly fell down to the ground. As he stood there, he smiled bitterly.
He actually had tricked Dao-Heaven. His final decision to enter the Allheaven Immortal Realm came at the price of burning his life force almost to the very limit. In fact, he couldn’t have proceeded much further even if he wanted to.
It was only when he reached this point, and was behind the barrier between nations, a place where Dao-Heaven wouldn’t be able to observe him, that he allowed himself to weaken rapidly. As the blood sprayed out of his mouth, he grew weaker and weaker.
“This Dao-Heaven is incredibly powerful!” he murmured. The reason he had covered his face with the Essence of Divine Flame earlier was because he didn’t want Dao-Heaven to realize that he was burning his life force. It was for the same reason that he chose to use the One Thought Stellar Transformation to become a planet in the final chase.
Furthermore, the reason he chose to come to the Third Nation was that, according to his analysis of the situation, the fact that Dao-Heaven had avoided the Third Nation on multiple occasions made it obvious that something was fishy. Picking the Third Nation nation made it seem like he was far more stronger than he actually was.
Fooling Dao-Heaven was not an easy thing. He was incredibly devious and suspicious, and made numerous probing attempts to find out if Meng Hao was trying to trick him. To Meng Hao, it was like walking along the edge of a cliff. Even the slightest misstep could have left him in grave danger.
“What a pity…. If I could fully absorb the second Nirvana Fruit, and truly step into the Allheaven Immortal Realm, then I could definitely kill Dao-Heaven. Right now, though… I’m not a match for him.”