Nasser was too close. The blood-red shield around him was scorched by the blue flames. What looked like a soft, loving caress, when it hit the red shield, the shield burst like a balloon pricked by a needle, then crumbled. It revealed Nasser, who was panicked and felt as if he were naked. His eyes were so wide they could have been relatives to a toad.
Such a powerful attack truly startled Nasser. His shield was a blood race secret defense that even Level Seven could not break. Previously, Li Xi’s many clones had bombarded it with ninjutsu, but to no avail. It had even blocked Li Xi’s main body’s attacks multiple times without issue.
Now, with a gentle touch of the blue flames, it exploded like a soap bubble. He immediately stopped his attack, retreated several steps, and frantically brushed shields onto himself with surging mana. In this moment of life and death, Nasser felt he was creating a new record for casting speed.
Amidst the churning blue flames, a blue cat demon materialized. Its pair of bewitching eyes, with just one glance, revealed it to be a peerless, monstrous demon.
The blue cat demon extended a pair of sharp, giant claws and ferociously raked Nasser's bewildered face.
"Run quickly."
Nissho's attack, apart from the initial burst of true strength, was all a facade, like a paper tower.
Li Xi didn't need the Two-Tails Matatabi to remind him; this kind of cooperation was not new. Without the seal being broken, the Two-Tails Matatabi could never unleash its full strength.
Nasser's move was too bizarre and difficult to resist. The instant his body regained mobility, he ran towards the bald, rocky mountain. Madame Avil, the attached woman, was still waiting for him to save her.
When Li Xi flew to the mountain, he saw that where he had created a human-shaped pit, a dark tunnel had appeared. Madame Avil was peeking into it!
"Hurry!"
They were escaping. Li Xi couldn't understand why this woman had the leisure to go on an adventure in the wilderness.
Just as Li Xi was about to grab Madame Avil's waist and fly away, she clearly resisted and then pointed at the tunnel below, saying, "My intuition tells me we'll survive if we escape through here."
Nasser, who had recovered his senses and was panicking, was already in pursuit. There was no other choice. Li Xi trusted Avil's intuition more than his own gender. Without a word, he grabbed Madame Avil and jumped down.
Nasser, who arrived later, sneered, his face filled with the cruelty of humiliation. "If you were on the surface, I might have let you escape. But underground, that is our domain."
That's right. On the surface, as long as the sun was out, it had some effect on high-level vampires like Nasser. Now, Li Xi was moving underground, which was like abandoning his greatest advantage and choosing an environment most unfavorable to himself.
As Li Xi sped down the tunnel, he flew for a long time. He thought it was just an ordinary underground space, but he flew for a long time without reaching an end. Conversely, the narrow tunnel was so quiet it was suffocating.
In the winding, narrow tunnel, every second brought a sense of oppression, as if being swallowed by the endless darkness and fear.
After such a long time, they must have descended tens of kilometers underground. If this tunnel were to collapse, with billions of tons of weight, not only Li Xi, but even Nasser, who was relentlessly pursuing them, would not survive.
Li Xi felt as if he were reaching the interior of the plane. His initial full-speed dash had now become slow and hesitant, as if he were standing at the entrance of an abyss, being eroded with every step forward.
Li Xi truly hadn't expected that what he thought was an ordinary tunnel would turn out like this. It was like seeing the tail of a snake as thin as a chopstick, intending to catch it and stew it, only to find that the snake was coiled around the earth when he pulled. Fear, dread, hesitation, and regret intertwined in his heart, making Li Xi's heart pound like a war drum again.
At the same time, the tension was contagious. Madame Avil, who was nestled against Li Xi's chest, heard his heartbeat like thunder. Looking at the seemingly bottomless chasm she had chosen, her limbs and even her entire body felt weak and powerless from fear. She could only hang on Li Xi like a kangaroo, burying her head in his clothes out of fear, daring not to look at the outside environment at all.
Her heart beat so fast that the sound of their heartbeats overlapped and resonated, creating a small ripple in the dark, despairing environment.
Finally, after two hourglasses, Li Xi saw a faint light. Even though that light was dimmer than a candle a hundred meters away in the night, here, it was like a drowning man seeing driftwood, or a starving ghost seeing roast chicken.
Li Xi sped up and landed in the illuminated underground. Then he looked around, seeing an endless underground world that seemed like another journey through time. Li Xi was stunned.
This was not a world of pure darkness. The sky above the underground world had faint points of light, illuminating it so that one could see dozens of meters, preventing all creatures from being blind.
Under this faint light, plants, unlike those on the surface, grew tenaciously. Forests, streams, and the occasional roars of animals made one's awe of the Creator's craftsmanship boundless.
Li Xi had confirmed where he was. This was not the underground in the conventional sense, but the legendary true underground world, deep beneath the surface by hundreds of thousands of meters. Countless races lived here, including dwarves, dark elves similar to succubi, troglodytes, and countless dark creatures that even the gods of creation couldn't count. If it weren't for the connecting tunnels to the surface, this place could be considered a new world.
Time did not allow Li Xi to stand there, marveling like Columbus discovering a new continent. Columbus had no formidable enemy pursuing him.
"Which way to go?" The traveler's accounts of the underground world were based on imagination. Li Xi dared not entrust his life to someone's fantasy at a desk. Naturally, he still had to rely on Madame Avil's intuition.
Madame Avil also poked her head out of Li Xi's clothes, her mouth agape in surprise at this exotic scenery. She didn't quite understand how a simple cave had led to the underground.
But when she heard Li Xi's question, she immediately pointed in a direction according to her intuition.
Without a moment's hesitation, Li Xi, holding Madame Avil, spread his dragon wings and began to travel cautiously in this completely unfamiliar environment.
Shortly after Li Xi and Madame Avil left, Nasser, with a grim expression, also flew down. The depth here far exceeded his imagination. He had initially thought it was a small fish in a pond, but it turned out to be a great white shark in the deep sea. Without psychological preparation, anyone would be terrified, not based on strength, but on courage.
At first, Nasser was also stunned by the underground world. However, unlike Li Xi's limited knowledge, he had extensive experience in the underground world. When he was still an elf, he had been captured and converted by Prince Kenio of the bloodline during a campaign against the dark elves, as he had ventured too deep into the underground world. Since then, although he had never returned, he was guaranteed to be more familiar with the environment than Li Xi.
Li Xi and Madame Avil had vanished without a trace, but Nasser was not worried. He twitched his nostrils slightly and instantly locked onto the direction they had left.
"Even the most cunning fox cannot escape an experienced hunter. You cannot escape my grasp today, no matter where you flee."
But as Nasser, full of confidence, was about to give chase, a mountain-sized rock directly above him crashed down.
The event was sudden, and Nasser could not escape. He raised one hand, and an egg-shaped shield appeared, protecting him. However, the weight of the rock exceeded Nasser's imagination. Although his body was protected, his entire body was hammered into the ground like a nail, directly sinking two to three meters.
After a long time, this colossal stone, thicker and heavier than a city wall, was riddled with countless blood arrows shot from below, turning it into honeycomb. Rubble flew everywhere, and the remaining fragments of stone were crushed into powder by an invisible force, scattering into the air.
A dusty and disheveled Nasser emerged from the ground, his face full of bad luck. Being hit by a falling rock in the underground world was already a low-probability event, let alone such a large one. It was like being hit on the forehead by a meteorite while walking on the street.
If it were a living creature, Nasser would have made it understand why flowers were so red.
Spreading his bat wings, Nasser pursued Li Xi and the two. Along the way, he saw various subtle and obvious traces of humans who had passed by: deliberately broken branches, fragments of clothes torn by branches, casually discarded holy water bottles, and even the aura of Li Xi's clones appearing in different directions.
Regardless of how many decoys or flaws Li Xi left behind, Nasser could always unswervingly choose the direction Li Xi had ultimately fled. Those distractions didn't even qualify for Nasser to glance at.
Although Li Xi and Madame Avil had fled first, and Nasser had been delayed by being hit by the large rock, Li Xi had spent a lot of time setting up misleading decoys. Soon, Nasser caught up.
Li Xi heard the sound of air breaking behind him and was puzzled. His traps and decoys had apparently had no effect. Nasser seemed to have the most advanced Beidou navigation system installed on him, always able to pinpoint his location.
Normally, shadow clones would be indistinguishable from the original body, but Nasser remained unmoved. Therefore, Nasser was not tracking him, but something else.
Li Xi took out a small golden ball with divine patterns from his spatial ring. As expected, Nasser was tracking it: the divine power crystal.
It made sense. The vampires had been plotting for thousands of years, so how could they not feel anything? Even a pile of feces from thousands of years ago could be recognized with closed eyes.
Madame Avil had completely abandoned her image of a young lady. She clung tightly to Li Xi. Now, seeing the golden divine power crystal Li Xi had taken out, she looked confused and uncertain. She sniffed lightly, as if smelling something incredibly fragrant.
She asked curiously in a low voice, "Sir, what is this thing?"
"This is a divine power crystal that the vampires prepared to ignite the divine fire for Dracula. They originally intended to blood sacrifice the entire city of Cado, but I interrupted their plan and snatched the freshly transformed divine power crystal. The one pursuing us, Nasser, is a Duke among the vampires, and he dreams of getting the divine power crystal back."
Li Xi held the divine power crystal in front of Madame Avil. "Speaking of which, you also played a part in me being able to snatch this divine power crystal that the blood race had saved up for thousands of years. You told them Li Xi's location, and then Li Xi notified me, so you indirectly saved Cado City."
Madame Avil did not take the divine power crystal, but only sniffed it intently, like a cat seeing delicious fresh fish for the first time. She was instantly captivated. Her already rosy complexion became even more crimson and juicy.
If Li Xi had touched her before, she would have been a juicy peach that could be squeezed. Now, she was a ripe, red apple, glowing red, alluringly red, making any male unable to suppress their restless hearts.