In truth, this sea of flowers was visible only to Feng Laixian; even Yu Xian himself could not see it.
Feng Laixian and the Heavenly Dao of this world were essentially two sides of the same coin. Because of this, he had been able to see many strange and bizarre things since childhood, and this world would even alter according to his subconscious mind.
It was precisely for this reason that when Margaret had approached him, he had been so easily persuaded by her.
After all, this world felt far too illusory to him, and he longed to go to a more real world.
Rumble!
Yu Xian's fist had not actually touched Feng Laixian, yet Feng Laixian was still sent flying backward dozens of meters.
"Too hot."
"I can't keep fighting him."
Even though Yu Xian had clearly made no contact with Feng Laixian when throwing that punch, the skin at the furthest end of his arm was already charred black, and his entire arm looked as though it had been scalded through, bright red all over.
The pain was excruciating.
He had zero desire to continue this fight. Taking advantage of the distance opened up between him and Feng Laixian, he decisively turned and fled.
However, he had barely sprinted ten-odd meters after turning when dozens of bullets flew at him from different angles. He scrambled backward to dodge the fire, only to see dozens of foxes dressed in patrol corps uniforms emerge from the shadows one after another, completely blocking his escape route.
"How dare you attempt to assassinate the King! Kill him!" one tall, skinny fox snarled darkly before charging at Yu Xian.
The remaining foxes followed close behind, spreading out into a fan-shaped flanking formation as they ran to surround Yu Xian.
Behind Yu Xian, Feng Laixian had already climbed to his feet. In his fury, he shattered an adjacent building with a single punch, then kicked off the ground with both legs, charging toward Yu Xian as well.
With his right arm burned, Yu Xian's combat strength was already severely compromised; the slightest movement of his right arm brought agonizing pain.
Unfortunately, facing a desperate situation, he had no room to worry about that.
He twisted off the ball of one foot, using the other leg as an anchor, and channeled all his body's strength into his right fist to hammer into the ground. Last time, he had blasted a massive crater into the earth; this time, the opposite happened—the ground caved in, and the recoil propelled him skyward, rocketing him into midair in an instant.
What was more, he didn't fly straight up, but diagonally to the right.
To his right was the very building where he had hidden earlier. Just as he touched down onto the rooftop, a bullet struck the tall, skinny fox who had been leading the charge at Yu Xian. In an instant, the fox's head exploded, and its limp body toppled sideways.
"There are more enemies! More enemies!"
Many of the foxes skidded to a halt and whirled around to look behind them.
By then, Feng Laixian had already closed in. The backs of these foxes grew hotter and hotter, sheer terror surfacing in their eyes.
Standing behind the foxes, Feng Laixian didn't spare them even a glance. He raised his head, locked his gaze onto Yu Xian on the rooftop, and leaped with all his might, giving direct chase after Yu Xian.
Yet in just those few short breaths of time, the foxes of the patrol corps already had their backs scorched black, collapsing one after another.
It truly wasn't deliberate on Feng Laixian's part; one could only say that in this state, Feng Laixian was utterly unsuited to cooperating with allies. Teaming up with him was dangerously lethal to anyone.
Across the rooftops, Yu Xian fled while Feng Laixian pursued, the gap between them slowly closing once again.
Farther away, Niman was also sprinting with Nora on her back, staying hot on the heels of the two moving figures. Meanwhile, Nora aimed from Niman's back, pulling the trigger again and again.
The bullets indeed served to disrupt him.
Every time Feng Laixian drew close to Yu Xian, a bullet arrived with perfect timing to break his momentum, forcing him to dodge or pull back.
Although his severed arm had already regrown, he knew all too well that the bullet's power went far beyond just severing an arm—if his head were behind that arm, his head would be blown apart along with it.
However, he had a solution of his own: using his tails to frantically grab anything within reach, then using the searing heat of his tails to melt those materials before whipping them forward. Magma, molten iron, and liquid glass sprayed toward Yu Xian ahead like bullets.
As long as Yu Xian was hit, the battle would be over.
"Phoenix Claw Form, Thousand Birds Soaring Skyward!"
White flames ignited along Feng Laixian's tails, carrying the various molten materials to instantly form an enormous phoenix claw.
Then he whipped his tails with ferocious force. The sky filled instantly with a dense swarm of little white birds, raining down upon Yu Xian in a relentless storm.
"I'm done for!"
Yu Xian glanced back and let out a wail of dismay.
He stomped down hard on the roof. The structure instantly gave way, and he dropped into the house below. Upon landing, he sprinted at top speed toward a room with windows up ahead.
As he ran, countless firebirds blasted through the roof and came crashing down in a truly spectacular sight.
Fortunately, the roof served as a buffer, so the firebirds were always just a hair slower than Yu Xian's sprint. Wherever Yu Xian ran, the space right behind him was blown to smithereens by the firebirds.
Finally, he leaped out through a window. The building could take the devastation no longer and collapsed with a thunderous roar.
"That was close," Yu Xian muttered to himself in alarm.
He then broke into a run down the street. Feng Laixian dodged another bullet, his countless tails propping him suspended in midair. Locking onto Yu Xian once more, he opened his mouth, took a deep breath, and blasted out a torrent of white flames.
The pillar of fire descended from the sky, nearly hitting Yu Xian, but the moment the flames struck, Yu Xian rolled across the ground in a desperate tumble, barely evading it.
He tumbled for quite some distance when suddenly a pattering sound arose.
Rain was falling.
This was no natural rainfall, but the activation of Shui Yuetian's ability.
Because Feng Laixian's roar earlier had scattered the dark clouds, activating Shui Yuetian's ability had become many times more difficult; she had struggled until now just to successfully gather rain clouds and bring about rain once more.
As the heavy downpour pelted down, Yu Xian finally felt his body find a measure of relief.
Meanwhile, suspended in midair, Feng Laixian was enveloped in billowing steam. The rain evaporated before it could even touch him, but his lethality was severely dampened as a result.
Just then, another bullet came streaking through the air.
Feng Laixian leaned backward to dodge the bullet, murmuring to himself, "It seems I have to deal with those annoying flies over there first, or this will never end."
With that, he switched targets immediately, moving rapidly toward Nora's direction.
"Not good, he's coming for us!" Niman said, furrowing her brow the moment she saw Feng Laixian running toward them.
Neither of them possessed the power to face Feng Laixian head-on; if Feng Laixian got close, both of them would surely die.
Nora kept aiming, pulling the trigger once more as another bullet shot from the muzzle. Gritting her teeth, she said, "Niman, put me down! We run in different directions!"
"No way. If we do that, you're dead for sure," Niman refused.
She had the ability [Inconspicuous]. If she ran separately from Nora, Feng Laixian would certainly fix his sights on Nora.
Given Nora's speed, she wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance of surviving.
Feng Laixian noticed at that moment that the bullets seemed to have weakened. He simply blocked a bullet with one of his tails, and sure enough, the bullet failed to sever it.
"Does the power decrease the closer the distance?"
Feng Laixian deduced the nature of Nora's ability in an instant. In the next moment, his tails surged with speed as he charged toward the two of them.
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