Chapter 1278: Absolute Desperation

Jiang Fan's expression also changed slightly. He asked, "Venerable Lianjing, can you hold on?"

Venerable Lianjing swallowed the blood foam in her mouth and looked at the seemingly endless spatial passage ahead.

She said in a deep voice, "I can only use my last bit of domain power to teleport once to the space ahead.""If we return to the Great State, that would be ideal.""If not, then you can use your face to slap my hand so I can vent my anger before I die."

She couldn't hit Jiang Fan herself, so if Jiang Fan used his face to hit her, that would be fine, right?

Jiang Fan looked at her pale face, a hint of apology welling up in his heart.

Originally, she could have abandoned him and the Ice-Fire Demon Monarch and fled alone.

She would have been much less burdened alone, and her chances of escape would have greatly increased.

Taking both of them had led to this perilous situation.

He nodded without hesitation. "Alright, if death is inevitable, I'll let you vent your anger."

Venerable Lianjing glanced sideways at Jiang Fan.

She hadn't expected this cunning fellow to actually agree.

At that moment, a giant palm descended from the sky. Venerable Lianjing, without hesitation, activated the last remnants of her domain power.

A mirror appeared above the heads of the three.

"Go!"

Venerable Lianjing grabbed the two and leaped into it.

The next moment, the giant palm, carrying the residual image of world-ending destruction, swept past with a roar.

It crushed the mirror and the spatial passage into fragments.

Simultaneously, several thousand miles away in the spatial passage, a mirror appeared, and the three tumbled out of it.

Venerable Lianjing's face was as pale as paper, and the divine halo behind her head had already grown dim.

Furthermore, one of the four flame marks was slowly dissipating!

The Ice-Fire Demon Monarch's expression was grave. "Trouble. Her cultivation is regressing."

However, when he looked forward, he sighed softly. "But it no longer matters."

Jiang Fan also looked at the spatial passage ahead, his pupils contracting slightly.

Ahead, there was still an endless void.

The Great State was nowhere in sight.

Venerable Lianjing had exhausted her last bit of domain power, but still hadn't reached the Great State.

Suddenly, Venerable Lianjing coughed up another mouthful of blood.

One of the flame marks on her divine halo completely vanished!

The remaining three also began to slowly dissipate.

This indicated that the replicated spatial passage was still being violently destroyed.

Jiang Fan turned his head and his pupils contracted.

The giant palm was catching up!

Realizing they were trying to escape, the Sage became slightly more serious.

In an instant, the sky-obscuring giant palm once again enveloped them like a vast canopy.

It casually swatted towards them.

Venerable Lianjing wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and forced a bitter smile.

"I actually thought I could escape right in front of the Sage."

"What was I thinking?"

Her desperate struggle was no match for the Sage simply getting a little more serious.

Letting go of Jiang Fan and the Ice-Fire Demon Monarch, she resigned herself to fate.

They couldn't escape at all.

"Jiang Fan, quick, use your face to slap my hand!" Venerable Lianjing spat out the blood foam from her mouth, exasperated.

She had truly been miserable because of this damn trickster!

If she didn't vent her anger before dying, she would become a vengeful ghost in the underworld.

But Jiang Fan did not respond to her.

He turned his head and saw that Jiang Fan had taken out the pink life-saving lotus and was already activating it.

As the lotus petals rapidly unfolded, a powerful spatial force erupted, enveloping the three of them.

Venerable Lianjing was startled. "Are you mad! Using this kind of random teleportation spatial artifact in the void?"

"If we're teleported into the void, wouldn't that mean..."

"Well, the outcome will be the same anyway."

In her opinion, however, this was Jiang Fan's dying struggle.

In the infinitely vast void, the Great State might be as small as a single star in the night sky.

The probability of randomly teleporting to the Great State was less than one in ten thousand.

Yet, Jiang Fan had no intention of resigning himself to death. He said, "How can we know if we don't try?"

He took out the Void Fishing Rod and cast it forcefully towards the front of the spatial passage.

The fishing line immediately extended infinitely, heading towards the Great State.

He then closely monitored the feel of the fishing rod.

Once, on the mainland, when he was being hunted by Immortal Yunxia, he had used a spatial life-saving artifact.

It was also a random teleportation.

However, the teleportation destination was near a cluster of Five-Magnet Origin Mountain stones!

The reason was that the Five-Magnet Origin Mountain on Jiang Fan's person resonated with those stones.

This suggested that random teleportation also had a discernible pattern.

If there was something with a similar aura to one's own possessions within the teleportation range, then that place could potentially be the teleportation destination.

At present, the Void Fishing Rod was automatically searching for a spiritual treasure of heaven and earth from the Great State.

If it hooked something, it would undoubtedly mean they had anchored themselves to the Great State!

In that case, their teleportation destination might be where the hook landed.

Venerable Lianjing was slightly stunned. In such a desperate situation, was he still going to struggle?

She watched Jiang Fan, beginning to understand why he could cut his way in and out of the Celestial Realm and successfully retreat even from a Five-Star Giant King.

Aside from his various abilities, this mindset played a crucial role.

However, this time, it wasn't something that could be overcome simply by refusing to give up.

How could someone at the Nascent Soul realm escape the pursuit of a Sage?

The Ice-Fire Demon Monarch also sighed softly, a hint of regret in his eyes as he looked at Jiang Fan.

He had lived for such a long time and seen too many people of astonishing talent.

With his experience, Jiang Fan was destined for greatness in the future.

It was just a pity that he had encountered the Asura Saint Son.

He was doomed to fall.

"Got it!" Jiang Fan suddenly felt a slight tug on the other end of the fishing rod.

This indicated that the fishing rod had successfully anchored to a spiritual treasure of heaven and earth from the Great State.

If they teleported now, there was a high probability they could return to the Great State!

The spatial power of the life-saving lotus was also fully unleashed at this moment.

It enveloped them, and the teleportation began!

A glimmer of hope appeared on Jiang Fan's face.

But at this very moment, the Sage, sensing that Jiang Fan and the others were about to teleport again, caused his giant palm, which was still some distance away, to suddenly appear above their heads!

At such close range, it felt as if a dark sky had collapsed upon them.

The boundless pressure shattered the passage they were in into shimmering fragments on the spot!

The spatial force enveloping them also couldn't withstand the world-ending pressure and scattered.

The three, who had been within the spatial force, suddenly felt their souls trembling wildly and their bodies tearing apart.

Under such immense pressure, there was no difference between a Venerable and a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Both would be extinguished in an instant, like a candlelight.

At this critical moment, the "Blood" character mark of the Primeval Blood Marquis on Jiang Fan's forehead, sensing Jiang Fan's life was in danger, reappeared!

Jiang Fan's heart pounded.

Whether they could escape depended on the blood mark!

The sky-canopy giant palm suddenly paused.

It clearly recognized the Primeval Blood Marquis's blood mark and showed some apprehension!

After a brief pause, it descended with even greater speed, like the sky collapsing!

The Asura Saint Son would not allow any possibility of his identity being revealed.

Even if it meant offending the Primeval Blood Marquis, he had to eliminate Jiang Fan!

Jiang Fan's heart grew cold.

The life-saving blood mark had no effect before the Asura Saint Son.

Was he truly going to die here?

Images of his beloved women flashed through his mind, along with the unfulfilled thousand-year mission of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion.

A powerful will to survive erupted within him!

He couldn't die!

He had to go back!

As countless thoughts raced through his mind, he suddenly remembered something!