I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch

Gong Changyi wasn't just scaring him; she had indeed locked onto his position.

Xia Feng didn't dare linger and turned to run.

But just as he turned his head, he saw that behind him three more ships had materialized from space, their hulls emblazoned with the emblem of a Golden Sparrow.

With wolves in pursuit from behind and tigers lying in wait ahead, Xia Feng cursed under his breath.

He quickly took out a shuttle-shaped space-time ship from the Nash Space, which looked like a capsule with both ends compressed into a cone shape.

This was a new type of military spaceship; its disadvantage was that it couldn't carry gun weaponry, and it was limited to three people aboard, but its advantage lay in its extremely fast speed.

"Miss Mu, can you pilot this?"

"I can try."

Without further discussion, the two of them opened the hatch and entered. Mu Qingtong got the hang of it in a second, as the shuttle's ends began to surge with a soft blue light.

Whoosh—a deep blue streak of light, the ship dashed off towards the east.

The Goddess Fleet was to the north, and Golden Sparrow pursuers to the south; Mu Qingtong followed her instincts and fled eastward.

But before they could get far, their Eyes of Decompilation saw a tall Knight in full silver armor slowly advancing towards them not far ahead, his feet resting on the hilt of a bizarre sword with gears turning.

The Silver Knight's nose-bridge was adorned with a silver visor, revealing only a pair of indifferent grayish-white eyes, and above them, at the center of his forehead, was engraved a holy white X mark, with gray hair tied in a ponytail falling behind his neck.

"Yin Shi?" Xia Feng recognized the figure at a glance.

A member of the Apocalypse Knight Order, deputy leader of the Garden's investigation team, Yin Shi!

This man's clone had appeared on Xize Island and had been easily killed by Mu Qingtong, but his real body had gone on a killing spree on White Emperor Island, silencing all the remaining veterans.

Then he started to chase after Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong, disguised as masked men.

Xia Feng had thought that they had already shaken him off, but now, even here in Zone 46, they were still being tracked.

Yin Shi seemed to notice their shuttle as well, his gray eyes narrowing in curiosity and surprise, suddenly accelerating towards them.

"Damn it, turn around, turn around!"

Before Xia Feng could finish speaking, Mu Qingtong had already begun to reverse at top speed, then executed a sleek, arced drift to head back the way they came.

If east was no good, then west it was!

Surely they couldn't be surrounded on all four sides!

Whoosh—

The shuttle drew a straight blue line to the left across the Silent Scroll of the Eternal Flow Sea.

The Goddess Fleet to the north detected the shuttle's movement and likewise changed course; nearly a hundred ships quickly spread out in a fan-shaped formation, moving southwest to encircle.

Kovis, who had come from the south in pursuit, also changed direction and headed northwest.

Xia Feng looked back and saw the three forces forming a 200° encircling fan shape coming from the rear, which made his head ache. His luck today was really rotten.

But luckily, Miss Mu's piloting skills were second to none in the entire history of the Empire, and paired with the latest military spaceship that was fast to the extreme, they were gradually increasing the distance from their pursuers.

However, just when Xia Feng was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he sensed something amiss and looked up.

Right in front of them, at the deep end of the azure sea current, a glint of golden light flickered, rapidly growing larger.

It was a golden staff, spinning quickly like Wukong's Ruyi Golden Hoop, expanding rapidly into a Divine Needle that swept across the sea with a terrifying momentum, bringing with it the force of a tsunami.

Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong narrowed their eyes in focus; could it really be that there was also someone blocking their path to the west?!

Xia Feng was aware of the other three forces, but he couldn't guess who the owner of this stick might be.

However, now was not the time to think about that. With a thought, he instantly activated the Nash Saintly Armor, covering the entire shuttle-shaped ship.

One of the abilities of the Nash Saintly Armor, the Holy Knight Space, allowed for concealment into the Different Space (up to 20 seconds maximum), an alternate space that could ignore most attacks from Spiritual Clothes and Spiritual Artifacts and was capable of movement, the distance of which depended on the consumed spiritual quantity.

Once they had entered the Holy Knight Space, the entire shuttle-shaped ship vanished as if it had traversed through time and space, leaving the three forces behind, stunned.

But before they could react, the Ocean Stabilizer's indiscriminate attack had already swept through the place where the shuttle-shaped ship had been, now barreling toward them.

The three forces each deployed their defensive measures, yet they were caught off guard and descended into chaos.

"Uh-oh, could this guy be an ally?" Xia Feng remarked upon seeing this, and he didn't dare to linger. With Miss Mu's superb maneuvering, they changed direction again, escaping toward the southwest.

The Holy Knight Space provided a full 20 seconds of concealment, ample time for them to get far away.

The four forces blockading them had no idea where the shuttle-shaped ship had gone. However, about 10 seconds later, the Goddess Fleet seemed to use some means to reacquire their bearing, immediately pursuing them in the southwest direction.

Behind, Yin Shi narrowed his silvery-gray eyes: "Burning Heaven Temple? Interesting, these people dare to appear here so brazenly..."

The Burning Heaven Temple was on the Apocalypse's must-kill list. Should any Apocalypse Knight encounter a member of Burning Heaven, they had an obligation to eradicate these Evil Cultists.

A hint of coldness flashed in Yin Shi's eyes as he stepped forward to join the pursuit.

At the same time, the massive stick that had been sweeping through the sea area shrank rapidly, turning into a roughly one-and-a-half-meter long stick. It quickly determined its direction and sped off in pursuit.

Kovis and Ke Yanqing at the rear were somewhat confused. Although they did not know why the Burning Heaven Temple and the Apocalypse Knight Order were also after the masked man, they had no time to worry about that now.

Ke Yanqing just wanted to kill the masked man as quickly as possible. Otherwise, she felt she wouldn't even be able to sleep peacefully, imagining the masked man's sneering violation in her dreams.

Just now, after the masked man had fled, she was not planning to chase after him, fearing that she might be violated by him during the pursuit.

But considering the possibility that the masked man might have said something he shouldn't have to her younger brother Weis, she would be utterly shamed.

So she had no choice but to give chase.

As for cleaning up the venue of the Spirit Song Competition, that was left to the Red-faced Ghost.

Within the venue, memories and emotions from over sixty-nine thousand of the seventy thousand people were erased, turning them into Puppet Nightmares. They were then successfully imbued with a uniform emotion. Under the control of the Red-faced Ghost, over sixty thousand people died without resistance, fulfilling the condition of "those who desire life."

Unfortunately, despite the impeccably executed plan, the death of sixty-nine thousand people only resulted in the creation of ten thousand Desire for Life Stones, which disappointed the Red-faced Ghost.

However, she had no time to dwell on her disappointment, for the Elemental Church's forces were imminent. Without delay, she left the area.

As for the remaining hundred or so survivors within the venue, they could be attributed to the chain reaction caused by the masked man breaking the Memory World, which prevented their memories from being successfully erased.

But this was no longer important; the hundred survivors had no idea what exactly had transpired and were no threat to the grand scheme of things.

"That's just outrageous!"

Xia Feng thought they had finally escaped, but through the Eye of Decompilation, he saw that their pursuers had caught up yet again. These persistent irritants seemed to have doubled their speed using some method, rapidly closing the distance!

Fortunately, the Goddess Fleet had begun to fight with Yin Shi, and they were battling while chasing, with the Ocean Stabilizer getting dragged into the fray.

The Golden Sparrow slashed through the chaos like a sharp sword, charging aggressively toward Xia Feng and his companion.

Absolute chaos.

Xia Feng silently prayed that these clingy bastards would fight each other to mutual destruction.

Unfortunately, contrary to his wishes, as the shuttle-shaped ship accelerated its desperate flight, ahead—

Once again!

A fleet appeared!

A fleet thrice the size of the Goddess Fleet in terms of ship number.

They were arrayed like stars across the placid Eternal Flowing Sea, dense and innumerable.