As the phrase 'Ma Kui has been slain' drifted in the void, the eleven remaining members from the Flame Moon Sect, Great Dao Sect, and the three cultivation aristocratic families were plunged into panic, their morale shattered.

Some fled without hesitation.

This situation was not much different from a street brawl; once one person fled, it would affect the morale of those around, and then the second, the third would also lose the will to fight, thinking everyone was fleeing and begin to escape as well, thus morale scattered, turning into a disorganized mess.

Of course, unlike street brawls, these Foundation Establishment cultivators escaped much faster. Some plummeted to the ground, initiating the Earth Escape Technique, and without a powerful opponent's Divine Sense locking onto them, they would vanish from everyone's sight instantly, disappearing without a trace.

Some used Wood Escape.

Their bodies sank into the forest, their aura blending with flowers, grass, and trees, their forms turning into the same colors as the woodland, making themselves disappear from the enemy's sight.

Some flew through the air, fleeing with the aid of the Godspeed Talisman.

Some used Sword Flight.

The people from Lingxiao Sect were somewhat more experienced with such situations. Ye Wuya immediately locked onto an opponent using Sword Flight and gave chase.

Yun Zong locked onto someone using Earth Escape with his Divine Sense, trailing them and continuously launching Fireball Techniques, causing masses of soil debris to explode on the ground. The person using Earth Escape was forced to reveal their true form occasionally, appearing rather embarrassed.

"Yun Zong, do you really want to drive us to extinction?" the individual using Earth Escape said angrily.

Yun Zong did not speak, focusing solely on frantically gathering fireballs and bombarding them unrelentingly.

The person was furious, cursing incessantly but dared not linger, using every means to escape wildly.

For Foundation Establishment cultivators of similar strength, capturing or slaying an enemy on one's own was virtually impossible.

In the high sky, several members of Lingxiao Sect, along with Qin Yanyang and Helian Zhan, each chased one person fiercely, but the enemies did not engage in battle, focusing only on escaping; thus, there was nothing they could do.

Lu Chen piloted the spirit ship following behind everyone, but soon, Wu You, Zhuo Donglai, and others smartly scattered in different directions, so Qin Yanyang and others could only give chase separately.

Ye Wuya felt a chill in his heart, immediately halting the chase and shouted: "Stop chasing, everyone don't scatter."

Qin Yanyang was moved, locking eyes in the direction Wu You fled, loudly declaring: "Board the spirit ship, chase those few people."

"Yes, take them down one by one," Gan Qian said.

Soon, everyone ceased pursuing individual opponents and gathered together. Once on the spirit ship, it moved at full speed, chasing in the direction Wu You and the other two fled.

Accompanying Wu You were Zhuo Donglai and another disciple from the Flame Moon Sect. When the three saw the spirit ship indeed pursuing them and their other companions had scattered in different directions, making it difficult to gather in the short term, they were shocked.

Once the spirit ship caught up, there were as many as eleven enemies on the spirit ship, and the three of them would undoubtedly face certain death.

Thus, they took out all their talismans, racing with all their might.

However, while they needed to expend spiritual power to fly and escape, the spirit ship had plenty of Spirit Stones to sustain its energy, allowing it to maintain the highest speed. By comparison, Wu You and the others would only grow more exhausted, while the enemies on the spirit ship conserved their energy, maintaining peak combat power; once caught, the only path was death.

Thus, after being pursued for several hours, Wu You anxiously said, "This won't work, we'll exhaust ourselves to death sooner or later."

Zhuo Donglai, already injured, was the weakest among them, worried about falling behind, and immediately transmitted, "Right, their goal is to take us down one by one, to exhaust us to death, what should we do?"

"We must find a way to rally everyone else, otherwise, as a disarray, we'll all eventually be annihilated by the enemy." Wu You said.

Another person named Zhou Hao said, "We should split up; that way, the spirit ship can only pursue one person, and the other two will contact the others, then circle back to White Jade City. As for the one being chased, be a bit more cautious, after leading the spirit ship around, also head to White Jade City, where we can regroup after getting there, and we'll have a chance to break free. Only if we all stick together and unite as one can we escape this predicament and continue to standoff against the enemy, waiting for reinforcements to arrive from home."

Wu You and Zhuo Donglai's eyes brightened.

For the three of them at the moment, this seemed like the only viable plan.

At that moment, Zhuo Donglai said, "Let's do it like this; otherwise, as time drags on, we'll deplete too much, and by the time the enemy disembarks from the spirit ship and form three teams to pursue us, it'll be hard for us to escape."

"Right, let's scatter immediately."

"Act separately, and good luck."

"See you at White Jade City."

The three made their decisions, Wu You directly fled forward, while Zhuo Donglai and Zhou Hao went left and right respectively.

On the spirit ship, seeing the three of them separate to flee, Ye Wuya sighed: "They finally acted smart for once, stop chasing, let's head back to White Jade City."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

In reality, they also had no better way to deal with the enemies, their only option was to take them down one by one, continuously wearing them down.

Now that the enemies had split to escape, they dared not scatter to pursue.

If the enemies managed to meet up during their retreat and unite, the pursuers would be at risk of being counter-attacked instead.

Moreover, they also needed to protect White Jade City, so they dared not chase too far.

Inside the quiet cabin of the spirit ship, Yang Fei and Wang Chunyang were consuming a certain amount of Genetic Liquid Medicine, also each taking out a Spirit Stone, cultivating to heal their injuries.

Comparatively, Yang Fei's injuries were superficial, and having been treated by Linglong with the 'Changchun Art', for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, as long as he endured the pain, it was nothing serious.

Wang Chunyang's situation was relatively troublesome.

He had no external injuries, but after hearing about his kin being exterminated, his excessive grief, added to the overexertion of his body from an extraordinary sword attack, harmed his spirit and meridians, posing an extreme risk to someone who had just entered the Foundation Establishment Stage, with his Realm not yet particularly solid or stable. If he couldn't stabilize himself, he risked injuring his foundation.

In serious cases, his Realm might even regress.

During the chase, Lu Chen piloting at dawn did not disrupt Yang Fei and Wang Chunyang.

Half an hour later, when the spirit ship returned to the vicinity of White Jade City, they indeed saw several more enemies attacking the Mountain Protection Array.

During the previous wave of attacks, the Mountain Protection Array was already damaged; now, as Tong Yunshu and Zhuge Cang managed the array, the power of the Five Elements Thousand Mechanism Killing Array was notably weaker, the whole array appearing shaky as if it could be breached at any moment.

Huang Chengcheng, Xu Jian, Wang Chunfeng, Ouyang He, Chen Liangzhong, Zuo Wenjun, Cui Wancheng, Cui Wanchi, along with Wales and Chris, all ten of them, formed a team defending outside the array while constantly attacking and interfering with the enemy.

Though the gap in strength and Realm compared to Foundation Establishment was vast, being ten in a team, and all having opened the Sea of Consciousness Space, even though physical attacks posed no threat to Foundation Establishment Cultivators, a series of assaults with Divine Thoughts posed a significant threat.

One of the Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators, having not yet strong enough Divine Sense, suffered a continuous barrage of Divine Thoughts from the ten Divine Travel Realm Level Cultivators, and his Divine Soul was damaged, his face turning pale, spat out a mouthful of blood, and fled in terror.

Being killed by a group of 'Qi Refinement Realm' Cultivators would indeed make him a laughingstock in the Southern Domain Cultivation World for centuries to come.

He was absolutely unwilling to make his name in the Cultivation World in such a manner.

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