413: Frightened Grass

As Long Aotian burned his Dragon Essence Blood, his speed instantly surged.

As a Chaotic Dao Body, his Dragon Essence Blood was extraordinary, especially since it contained Dragon Essence Blood from Ao Zhan during his Peak.

The Dragon Essence Blood harbored terrifying power from a higher Plane; when he burned it, the power unleashed was certainly not just doubled, but at least tens of times greater.

Under the burning of his Dragon Essence Blood, Long Aotian quickly caught up to the Zu Long Grass's tail. Fortunately, the Zu Long Grass seemed to be so startled by him that it momentarily lost its bearings and didn't dart around changing directions as it had before.

Otherwise, even if he had caught up, it would have been a futile effort.

Now that he had caught up and his Divine Sense had locked onto it, no matter how much it changed direction, it was useless.

However, Long Aotian also knew that burning Dragon Essence Blood was not a long-term solution. During this process, he utilized the time acceleration in the Ninth Layer Space World to seek a Breakthrough in his Tai Xu Divine Steps.

Only by achieving a Breakthrough in his Tai Xu Divine Steps could he become more composed in terms of speed.

He didn't know the true depth of the Zu Long Grass, but it felt incredibly unfathomable to him, and he absolutely couldn't be careless or underestimate it.

His primary goal now wasn't to provoke it further and drive it mad.

Who knew if this grass, if driven mad by him, could also burn its Dragon Essence Blood like a human Cultivator?

Long Aotian dared not gamble!

If the Zu Long Grass could also burn its Dragon Essence Blood, the speed it would unleash would absolutely be terrifying.

It was better to first improve his own speed!

With the time acceleration of the Ninth Layer Space World extended, where one day equaled three hundred years, burning Dragon Essence Blood for one second meant Long Aotian could gain at least six minutes. The burning time a single drop of Dragon Essence Blood could sustain was about ten breaths, with one breath being a maximum of five seconds, making ten breaths fifty seconds.

This meant that, with the time acceleration, Long Aotian could extend the burning of one drop of his vital Dragon Essence Blood to at least five hours.

This allowed him to gain relatively ample time for a Breakthrough in his Tai Xu Divine Steps during the brief state of flying at ultra-limit speed by burning Dragon Essence Blood.

During the chase, Long Aotian had already increased his speed to the Late Stage of the Million Divine Light Rank. Now, burning Dragon Essence Blood, he directly Broke through to the Ten Million Divine Light Rank.

What Long Aotian needed to do next was to advance even a small Realm within the Ten Million Divine Light Rank.

As long as he could advance one small Realm, the speed he unleashed in pursuing the Zu Long Grass would double.

The burning Dragon Essence Blood seemed to activate the latent Principles of Dao within the Dragon Essence Blood, giving Long Aotian, who had condensed his Rules to the ceiling level by consuming twelve types of Dao fruits, a faint feeling of being on the verge of a Breakthrough to the Principles of Dao level in the Dao.

However, seemingly suppressed by a higher Plane, he was unable to Break through for a long time.

Yet, under this sensation, the integration of Void Rule power into the Tai Xu Divine Steps seemed to become very simple.

One step, ten million Divine Light... One step, twenty million Divine Light... One step, fifty million Divine Light... One step, eighty million Divine Light.

It wasn't until he Broke through to eighty million Divine Light that Long Aotian's burning drop of vital Dragon Essence Blood was completely consumed. At this point, the distance between him and the Zu Long Grass had closed from five hundred thousand immortal miles to ten thousand immortal miles.

The speed of Tai Xu Divine Steps had increased by nearly ten times. Now, even without burning Dragon Essence Blood, Long Aotian could barely keep up with the Zu Long Grass's little tail.

This showed just how astonishingly fast this frantic grass was, and this was still when it was merely provoked.

Long Aotian categorized the Zu Long Grass's speed into four Ranks: Normal, Startled, Provoked, and Driven Mad!

In its Provoked state, even with his Tai Xu Divine Steps raised to the eighth stage of the Divine Grade Ninth Rank, a speed of eighty million Divine Light per step, he could only barely keep up with its tail.

Long Aotian couldn't imagine how terrifying its speed would be if it were completely driven mad?!

While integrating the Void Rule power into his Tai Xu Divine Steps, Long Aotian suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He thought that if he could integrate the Void Rule power into his Tai Xu Divine Steps, then what about the power of the Wind Rule, the Speed Rule, and even the Space and Time Rules?

If he could also combine these four Rules that enhance speed, along with the Void Rule power, and fuse the five Rules together to create a completely new Tai Xu Divine Steps, to what astonishing extent would the unleashed speed reach?

Thinking of this, Long Aotian couldn't help but be startled by his own bold idea.

Fusing five Rules, a completely new Tai Xu Divine Steps! Long Aotian suddenly thought of the Fusion of different flames.

The Fusion of hundreds of mortal-grade different flames in the Lower Realm could directly advance his Chaos Burning Star Flame to Divine Grade.

The power unleashed when one different flame fused with another was never as simple as one plus one equals two; it directly surged several times, or even dozens to hundreds of times.

He now wanted to fuse five types of Rule power that enhanced speed. If successful, he was certain that the speed unleashed by the Tai Xu Divine Steps would absolutely Break through the Peak value of one hundred million Divine Light per step in the Divine Grade Ninth Rank!

It was very possible to reach one billion Divine Light, or even ten billion, one hundred billion, or one trillion Divine Light per step.

The more he thought about it, the more excited Long Aotian became!

His restless heart could no longer be contained, and he decided to give it a try. Another drop of his vital Dragon Essence Blood was frantically burned.

Long Aotian planned to first try integrating the Void Rule power and the Speed Rule power.

Under the time acceleration, with one drop of vital Dragon Essence Blood burning for five hours, Long Aotian first elevated his Tai Xu Divine Steps to the extreme of the Divine Grade Ninth Rank.

One hundred million Divine Light per step!

Then he began tens of thousands of attempts to integrate the two Rule powers into his Tai Xu Divine Steps.

On the ten thousand and first attempt, at the very moment the second drop of vital Dragon Essence Blood had three breaths remaining before burning out...

He succeeded!

The instant he succeeded, his speed directly surged from one hundred million Divine Light per step to one billion Divine Light per step, instantly sweeping past the frantically fleeing Zu Long Grass.

...?

At this moment, the Zu Long Grass's soul was practically smoking.

What was that that just flashed past it?

He... how could he possibly still catch up?

At this moment, the Zu Long Grass was truly and utterly terrified, completely driven to desperation. Long Aotian had darted ahead, and it immediately turned around and ran back the other way.

Facts proved that Long Aotian's judgment was not wrong; the Zu Long Grass's full speed had indeed not been completely forced out yet.

However, this time, it should be pretty close!

Under his Divine Sense perception, the Zu Long Grass's speed once again exploded by more than ten times. Long Aotian, even with his Tai Xu Divine Steps infused with two Rule powers, still couldn't keep up with its tail.

It wasn't until he used the time acceleration and the Wind Rule power for enhancement that he could barely keep pace.

“Hehe, Zu Long Grass, you can't escape!”

“...Damn human, you won't catch me!”