Chapter 1287 Mui's Escape

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Following the demon beast "revealing" its real strength, Mui used all of her strength to try and kill it to no avail as it continued using powerful earthen walls to block her attacks. Resulting in not a single one of her attacks landing no matter how much strength she put into them, as the earthen wall seemed to grow stronger the stronger her attacks were.

Don't tell me… This demon beast is already half a step into the Domain Lord Realm and has established a pseudo domain of earth!? Is this perhaps why I can't get any of my attacks through?

Narrowing both her eyes for the first time as a frown appeared on her face as she thought this while looking at the earthen walls that had once again blocked her attack, Mui felt that she might have severely underestimated her opponent.

Having thought that it was at the Peak of the Nascent Soul Realm, while it had actually taken another step forward and entered the Half Step Domain Lord Realm!

"No, I can't go on like this or I will run out of strength if I keep this up. Giving it the perfect chance to counterattack… I-I have to retreat for now!" Muttering this to herself as she gazed towards the demon beast hidden behind the earthen wall, Mui turned around and escaped in the opposite direction of the demon beast. Knowing very well that she stood no chance of contending against a Half Step Domain Lord Realm demon beast with her current strength.

Although she would still have the ability to kill it if she decided to use some of the talismans left behind by her master, she had no intention of doing so, as she was far more interested in returning in the future to get her revenge after she got stronger.

Yes, Mui felt that she was only just slightly behind the Half Step Domain Lord Realm demon beast in terms of strength and felt confident that she would be able to kill it as long as she gained a bit more experience with fighting and broke through to the Sixth Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Not to mention, she also knew that the pseudo dao of the demon beast should be the Dao of Earth. Meaning that she could prepare for dealing with her in her next battle with the demon beast.

Just you wait! I will definitely get my revenge after I become stronger!

Whoosh~!

With a determined mindset and a clear goal in mind, Mui disappeared from the opening that had been created by their battle. Leaving behind a rather confused demon beast that could only stare in the direction she had disappeared with a look that was both fearful of the power she had displayed, while also being confused over what had just taken place.

In the end, the demon beast could only think that Mui had deliberately kept it alive.

As for the reason… The demon beast didn't think it was for anything good given the clear killing intent she had displayed before leaving.

Roar…

And so, knowing the danger of staying around the forest any longer with someone like that around, the demon beast made the decisive decision to venture deeper into the mystic realm to try and escape from Mui before she returned again.

Although it had deliberately made its way towards the edge of the mystic realm to escape danger and the many powerful demon beasts that had now begun roaming around its former home, the demon beast had a feeling that it would still be safer than staying in the forest at the edge of the mystic realm where Mui was running rampant. Especially given that she seemed to be deliberately targeting it.

…

Thump~

At the same time that Mui finished up her battle with the scared demon beast now in the process of running away, Xuan Hao silently landed on the ground in front of the third celestial gate with a somewhat surprised expression on his face.

"I'm back at the third celestial gate? I for sure thought I would end up somewhere different after going through that spatial passage. Especially considering how long it took to get back…" Muttering this to himself as he recalled how long his return journey had taken compared to going the other way, Xuan Hao could not help voicing his thoughts out loud.

From the third celestial gate to the destroyed hall, it had taken him a few seconds to get there, but one the way back, it had taken him several minutes. Making him believe that he would end up somewhere different.

Maybe its because the spatial passage I took back was different from the one I used to reach the destroyed hall, but even then, the difference shouldn't be that big…

Shaking his head as he realized that his current understanding of the Dao of Space was still far too low to understand the workings of the different spatial passages contained inside the third celestial gate, Xuan Hao decided to not think about it for now as he instead focused his attention back on the third celestial gate.

Of course, this time around, he didn't dare to use his divine sense to investigate the inner workings of the celestial gate, as he had no plans of being dragged back to the dangerous place that he had just managed to leave.

Instead, he was thinking about whether or not to enter the celestial gate and try to enter the space of the third celestial gates exchange hall. Even if he knew about the danger involved in doing this, he had managed to analyze some of the differences between the different spatial passages that he had seen inside the third celestial gate during his extended travel time back.

For example, the most common spatial passages that were by far the weakest should be the ones connecting to the different trial grounds inside the celestial gate, while the stronger ones should be connected to more important locations, like the exchange hall.

More importantly, none of these stronger spatial passages had been damaged. Meaning that it should be safe for him to enter the third celestial trial and travel to the place where the exchange hall of the third celestial trial should have originally been located before it had ended up inside one of the trial grounds.

Of course, he could always be wrong in his speculations and that was why he hadn't yet stepped forward to enter the third celestial gate, but instead just stood in front of it as he continued to go over what he had managed to see before he got dragged away into the destroyed hall.

Like this, a few days flew by as Xuan Hao was fully focused on trying to comprehend what little he could from the countless spatial passages he had seen inside the third celestial gate.

In the end, Xuan Hao closed his eyes for a brief moment to calm himself down before taking a step forward into the third celestial gate. Having concluded that it should be safe for him to enter after going over the different spatial passages he had seen, and which ones might lead to the space where the third celestial trials exchange hall was located.

Whoosh~

Feeling the familiar spatial forces warp around him as he stepped through the third celestial gate, Xuan Hao nervously felt his surroundings as he was sucked into one of the countless spatial channels. Only feeling relieved after successfully making his way through the spatial passage and landing on the ground of the space where the third exchange hall was located.

"Huh? This… Is the third celestial trial's exchange hall…?"

However, as he got a chance to observe his surroundings, Xuan Hao was shocked to discover that the piece of land he was standing on was the only thing left inside the space where the third exchange hall should have been.

No, that wasn't entirely true, as there were still a few remnants and corners of the third exchange hall that had broken off and were now aimlessly floating around inside the space with a few bits of land still intact beneath them.

But outside of this, the space where the third exchange hall should have been located was completely empty.

Although he had already expected this to some degree considering that he had already seen the third exchange hall inside the third celestial trial space he had gone to when first entering the third celestial trial, he was still shocked when seeing the large empty space where the third exchange hall should have been.

After all, it wasn't entirely empty, as the space had been forcefully torn open to move the third exchange hall… And given the bits of familiar aura still lingering in the void, Xuan Hao was certain that it should have been done by the elder of the Mirage Sect that he had encountered.

Not just that, but it should have been done before the attack had truly begun, as there was no aura outside the elder from the Mirage Sect present.