Chapter 5300: Losing Sight Of Them?

The Celestial Transcendent’s lips curled, "How cunning. They implanted the thought that she could now use an astral avatar to lead us in the wrong direction, and now make us doubt if she really went this way, forcing us to check the other teleportation sites."

Zest Hyluan looked disheveled. He raised his hand and scratched his head, "Sigh, we have people waiting in the Nether Dimension, and many other Minor Dimensions like the Echo Dimension and Sky Dimension. Some parts of the Primeval Universe Ruins and Dream Dimension are also under our purview, but they never took the bait to leave through a dimensional pathway after all that encirclement. They’re too bold to just run around in this layer!"

He echoed, as though he was frustrated after not being able to catch up after all that high-speed chase.

He was pissed carrying them all by himself when he knew even the Celestial Transcendent knew Spacetime Laws and could use teleportation, but within the limits of the three layers, he was not allowed to do so.

The universe and the heavens didn’t approve, even if he was a Supreme Ruler and a Celestial Seed.

Only those with certain bloodlines were barely allowed to do so.

With him spamming teleportation like this, he didn’t know how much karmic burden he had accumulated. Fortunately, he didn’t cause much disaster or cause a huge ripple in fate to happen with his teleportation, so the karmic burden should be minor or insignificant.

Eventually, they teleported around, checking the other two sites.

The second site had no traces in the nearby astral stars.

As for the third site, there was none.

"I found a trace here."

Zest Hyluan gazed at the stars and said softly without turning to look back at them.

"She really could use multiple astral avatars? That’s insane in its own way. How will we be able to catch her? It seems like we could only bait her into a powerful formation, but she has that reported replica of the Necklace of Light and Darkness which flips the reality on us, making us trapped instead." Grand Elder Yue Qing frowned heavily, finding this chase getting harder and harder as time passed and distance widened.

It proved nearly impossible to catch up now.

The Celestial Transcendent ruminated over the facts for a bit before saying, "Let’s follow the first site’s trail. If we get lucky, we’ll continue the chase. If not, we’ll come to a stop and return. But since they came this way, they shouldn’t be making their way to the other sectors. We’ll have the Heaven’s Warriors and the neighborhood realms search the entire northeastern sector of the Second Layer. We’ll eventually find them one day."

He said briskly before patting Zest Hyluan, "You did well, old friend. No matter the outcome, we won’t blame you."

"..."

Zest Hyluan’s pupils quivered ever so lightly before he smilingly turned to look at them, "It’s truly bad luck indeed."

They nodded and continued from the first site.

Eventually, they lost the trail completely, forcing them to return.

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Fairy Qiyra Darkstar traversed the space as an astral beam of light, her figure shooting across the silent, nebulous space regions. She landed on multiple stars one after another, absorbing their astral energy and continuing her journey.

She had taken a totally different path to return than the time back when she had saved Davis from the Six-Headed Hydra Upper Realm after his Empyrean Heavenly Tribulation. Her path was zig-zag rather than a straight path. She led them across many dangerous zones, which were not able to impede her because her true form was traversing using the astral sea.

As for the dangers in the astral sea, there were not many since it was a silent place.

One could materialize only if they found the Astral Dimension, but she was traversing between the two. Hence, she didn’t face any threats.

First, she had used an astral avatar to lead them astray. It might buy her some time, but the true purpose had indeed been to implant the thought in their head that she could have many more astral avatars, so when the next time she lured them away with the teleportation formations, they would be forced to check all the sites and waste their time, causing them to lose whatever trace they had left.

She had no idea if she was still being followed, so she continued to move according to the escape plan she and Davis had come up with.

For the third move, she stopped near a star and split the space and left behind a tear to the Void Dimension, a place one shouldn’t enter as it was even more dangerous in the Second Layer, having atmospheric and natural World Hegemon Grade threats, but could make huge strides in travel distance.

But she didn’t go inside, continuing to go through a teleportation formation on a nearby continent and travel across the stars. This teleportation was activated six times, but she had also remote activated another hidden teleportation formation that had a false spatial undulation that led to the depths of the continent. Even if the Celestial Transcendent and the others managed to find the hidden formation, they would only waste time searching underground while she had already left the region using the stars.

Finally, she reluctantly used the broken ring to flip the coordinates of the next teleportation formation should they come across it.

She had made the replica pulse at the unused teleportation platform that led far to the south. Anyone who approached it for the next few days would briefly experience inverted spatial coordinates, making their own tracking techniques point backward and convincing them the Divergents had doubled back toward the Beast Autarch Upper Realm.

Fortunately, the ring that was on the verge of breaking didn’t shatter. It wasn’t constrained since it wasn’t used to deal with layer limit experts but only to change a few coordinates.

Otherwise, she would have no choice but to be thrown out to the great void and make her way back.

After she had done all that and taken a few breaks every now and then, far more than she had initially imagined because of the layer limit experts and the World Hegemon Grade resources, she finally arrived at the destination, using Twilight Laws to hide the last few astral star jumps as much as possible.

A strange translucent, starry platform appeared on the continent. Suddenly, a ray of purple-black light descended from the star above, directly falling onto this platform.

The brilliance peeled away layer by layer, revealing a figure that did not belong to this realm, nor fully outside it. It was a woman. She stood upon the translucent platform as though it were an extension of her Will, revealing a slender, ethereal beauty whose aura was one of detachment. Her purple robe, made of a material that seemed to shimmer like the night sky, flowed gracefully around her, adding to her mystique.

Her features were sharp and refined, with high cheekbones and piercing silver eyes that seemed to see through everything. Her long, jet-black hair cascaded down her back, contrasting starkly with her pale skin.

After she descended, she gazed at the barren land as she bit her lip with a hint of nostalgia.

She was finally back at the Golden Radiance Continent, even managing to bring everyone back safely without a single casualty. This achievement made her cold heart feel exhilarated as much as she desired peace and tranquility, bringing an awkward smile to her face.

As for the others, they weren’t here to receive them but were ready to escape. Hence, Wix Voidfield and Stella Voidfield were also ready to fling everyone away at a moment’s notice instead of receiving them.

Only after she calmed herself did she release everyone from the astral spatial ring.