Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 1049

Chapter 1049

Chapter 1049: During the Escape

Qianye was walking carefully through a thorny undergrowth with his aura retracted . In what seemed like empty air, there were actually wisps of barely discernible black energy floating about . These wisps—as fine as strands of hair—were floating about aimlessly and completely harmless when touched . Qianye, however, knew that these wisps of energy were formed of the Demoness’ demonic energy and were a part of her domain . She would be alerted instantly if he were to touch them by accident .

After some thought, Qianye figured out that these black threads weren’t without a solution . He had seen a small beast fly past, breaking several of the threads without any response from the demonic energy .

It would seem that this domain was intricately controlled, and she would judge whether the target was man or beast depending on the reaction .

Qianye stretched out a finger and tried approaching one of the demonic threads . The thread started to react when his fingertip was within a certain range, and flew over like a swimming fish . When Qianye cut off his external origin power, the demonic thread went back to floating about aimlessly .

Qianye had figured it out—these threads not only served as a warning trap that would send signals to the Demoness, but they were also quite sensitive to daybreak origin power and would seek out the owner proactively .

Such a technique was almost indefensible . If it wasn’t for Qianye discovering them with his True Sight, he would never figure out how he was found out by the Demoness .

Qianye was in no rush to leave, however . He channeled a bit of his blood energy and released it . Unexpectedly, all the demonic threads within ten meters began moving the moment his blood energy was released . Dozens of them swarmed over like sharks that had smelled blood .

This time, Qianye didn’t retract his blood energy and simply allowed the threads to crash into his finger, observing their reaction .

The demonic threads stirred up a fierce reaction after shooting into the blood energy, emitting numerous tiny sparks . The small demonic threads were quickly incinerated by the dark golden blood energy, but their reaction was also quite fierce . They weren't quite at a disadvantage in the contest and would bring down with them an equal amount of dark golden blood energy .

Qianye had never imagined that the demonic threads would be so much more sensitive to blood energy than to daybreak origin power . Apparently, the Demoness either attached great importance to the vampires or it was as he had previously learned—demonic energy and blood energy would attack each other fiercely after reaching a certain level . The conflict between them was even stronger than that between darkness and daybreak origin powers . It was as though only one of them could exist .

There was no telling whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that these threads were so sensitive to blood energy .

Qianye retracted his aura immediately after the test . He was suddenly overcome by a bad feeling as he thought of something . Apart from Edward, there was probably no one else who possessed a high enough blood energy to elicit a reaction from the demonic threads . If that was the case, the Demoness had probably figured out his location and was heading over at full speed .

At the thought of this, Qianye’s figure flickered and vanished immediately . He had used Spatial Flash .

His silhouette had just disappeared when several dark ribbons appeared where he was standing . They weaved together and immediately slashed the space there into dozens of fragments . Qianye would have been in a frantic situation if he were still there .

The Demoness’s figure appeared in the air . “Humph, you do run quite fast . ”

In the span of a breath, experts like Anwen, Edward, and Basil also arrived . They kept silent after seeing that the Demoness had failed to overrun Qianye . Her bad temper was notorious . Add to that her peerless combat capabilities, everyone who offended her would meet horrible ends .

Now that Qianye had escaped under her nose, one could easily guess her current mood .

The Demoness said faintly, “He can’t run for long, I’ve already found him . ”

Her voice hadn’t even trailed off when her figure disappeared . Anwen followed the trail of demonic energy in the air to chase after her .

The Evernight experts moved like a flash of lightning . After traveling dozens of kilometers in a flash, they saw the Demoness standing quietly in the sky . Apparently, Qianye had escaped yet again .

Actually, this was quite normal because Qianye’s Spatial Flash was unrivaled in escape . Although Spatial Flash wasn’t the only one of its kind, it possessed a suppressive advantage over the others in terms of distance and drain . That was also the reason why Qianye could contend with the Demoness by relying on it .

This time, the Demoness didn’t say anything . After standing there for a while, she pointed in a certain direction and vanished in the form of a black ribbon .

Soon, they saw the Demoness in the air again . The group formed a tacit understanding to wait quietly for her to catch Qianye’s traces .

The Demoness didn’t disappoint them, either . She managed to lock onto Qianye’s position in the span a few breaths and chased after him .

It was a failure again .

At this point, Edward and the other experts were beginning to notice that it was taking longer and longer for the Demoness to find Qianye . This proved that she was slowly losing track of him, or maybe Qianye had found a way to deal with her power .

Qianye’s exhaustion was also considerable after using Spatial Flash repeatedly, and he had also fired from the Wings of Inception twice . Even if his cultivation was able to suppress his peers, it was only natural that he wouldn’t have much origin power or stamina left . All that was left was to see who could wear the other party down faster . For instance, only death awaited Qianye if he collapsed from exhaustion, but he would escape if the Demoness failed to hold out . This would give him much needed time to catch his breath .

As the hunter, the Demoness should be the one holding the advantage . After all, spatial travel was much more taxing than flying . But she was also expending vast amounts of demonic energy to maintain her domain, and lasting this long was already a feat worthy of admiration .

Who would’ve thought that a certain group slaughter would turn into a battle of attrition?

Yet, no one dared to ask the Demoness about Qianye’s tracks, nor were they tactless enough to offer help . There was no telling whether people like Edward were actually gloating inside .

Qianye appeared through the void in the depths of the forest . He immediately locked onto a small beast on his left-hand side and agitated it with his blood energy, causing it to jump up and run about wildly . Qianye dropped to all fours and ran alongside the creature .

The shocked beast ran even faster, and Qianye followed along at a steady pace .

The creature would run into strands of demonic energy along the way, and Qianye also took this opportunity to do the same . He was channeling bloodline concealment at the moment, and just as he had thought, the action didn’t bring about a reaction from the demonic threads . As far as the Demoness’ perception was concerned, they were just two small creatures running about in the taboo zone .

After running for several dozen kilometers, there was no special reaction from the surrounding space . It would seem the Demoness hadn’t noticed them . Qianye knocked the small creature out with a slap and hid it atop a giant tree .

This was the first time he had found some time to rest since entering the Great Maelstrom .

Qianye also knew that his break time wouldn’t be long . Once the Demoness couldn’t find him, she would comb through the areas with demonic beast movement and eventually find him .

Qianye calmed his mind and observed the state of his body . He had used up more than half of his origin power and blood energy . The two Shots of Inception and Spatial Flash used his blood energy as fuel, so it was quite exhausting despite possessing blood energy at the quality of a great dark monarch .

There was only a single luminous feather on the Wings of Inception . He only had one Shot of Inception left . His most powerful attack had been used up on the Demoness, while the other shot was used to intimidate people and open up a path of escape . However, Qianye discovered that the outlines of a black-rimmed feather had already started to form on the other wing .

This meant that he now had two special feathers with great firepower .

Qianye didn’t quite have the time to study how this feather had appeared . He quickly produced the Book of Darkness and poured out the stored essence blood into the Wings of Inception . The Wings of Inception began absorbing the contribution in vast amounts, almost as though they had woken up from a dream .

Soon, one of the ordinary feathers started to light up .

By the time the Book of Darkness was entirely empty, the new luminous feather was already half-lit, and only the tip remained dark .

Qianye made some rough calculations and found that a full Book of Darkness could provide enough blood energy to form a complete luminous feather . The good thing about the Book of Darkness was that the essence blood stored inside would be purer than before, ready for use at any moment . For instance, it could be poured into the blood core to enter a state of blood boil . The essence blood refined by the book was far inferior to the dark golden blood energy, but it would ensure fighting power under emergency circumstances—now, for instance .

Qianye put away the Book of Darkness and glanced at a nearby giant tree . There was a giant python resting in the tree trunk, one that possessed powerful vitality . This represented vast amounts of essence blood, especially since all creatures in the Great Maelstrom possessed bountiful pools of them .

Qianye jumped up and charged toward the hole . He then grabbed the giant python and crushed the serpent’s scale with his bare fingers, digging into its flesh . The snake struggled, but the tree hole was too narrow for it to exert much force . The snake turned toward Qianye but was duly caught by the neck .

The giant python could be considered quite strong, but it was still a bit inferior compared to Qianye and his ancient vampire constitution .

Qianye channeled Life Plunder after restraining the giant python, shooting out sanguine threads into the serpent’s body . Despite all that, it took an entire minute before the creature stopped struggling .

Qianye heaved a sigh of relief, his body drenched in sweat . The book of darkness was almost full again, but the python’s essence blood wasn’t dry just yet . From this, one could see just how terrifying the creatures here were, and also how bountiful .

Qianye’s figure flickered and disappeared again .

The Demoness appeared not long after he had left . She was full of killing intent as she gazed at the corpse of the giant python inside the tree .