Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 799 - 336: Why Am I Still Here? (2)

Just as the trio prepared to launch another assault, Brahma Heaven's silhouette vanished right before their eyes.

The three swept out their spiritual sense in a frantic search, only to spot Brahma Heaven materializing from the emptiness at a different spot.

'This fellow is loaded with treasures.'

'Pursue him!'

Following that intense clash, all traces of Brahma Heaven's earlier smugness had evaporated; his complexion was deathly white, his thoughts a whirlwind of chaos.

'No way, if things keep going like this, I'll end up dead by their hands. What options do I have... what moves should I make?'

In a flash, Brahma Heaven's eyes shifted toward his own forces.

Even with the enemy's three armies pressing in, his soldiers hadn't been entirely eradicated.

A handful of cultivators remained, arrayed in a massive formation with their backs guarded mutually, barely managing against the onslaught from the Vast Realm's troops.

Brahma Heaven's attention locked onto the cluster boasting the biggest crowd, where numerous prodigies from the Vast Realm's past years stood out.

They bolstered one another and had even taken down a few Vast Realm cultivators, marking them as the mightiest contingent in the Central Domain's Celestial Fire Realm.

'Father always said that when these lower-tier geniuses face a dire crisis, sacrificing their lives for ours isn't a terrible trade!'

This idea surged in Brahma Heaven's head just as he felt Fei Bing and her companions closing in with lethal intent, sparking a scheme.

The phantom of the fire god enveloping him had fully faded, exposing his actual appearance.

Brahma Heaven clutched a priceless void transfer talisman, pinpointing the location of those geniuses loyal to him and teleporting straight to their side.

He had little recourse; the void transfer talisman he gripped allowed only brief, limited jumps. Evidently, such short hops wouldn't let Brahma Heaven slip away with the three Vast Realm leaders hot on his trail.

To properly trigger the talisman's long-range teleportation, he needed to pour in sufficient magical power.

Thus, that band of geniuses serving him offered the perfect means to stall the foes!

'Brahma Heaven, you won't slip away from us while we're watching!' Fei Bing's icy tone rang out.

Brahma Heaven clenched his jaws, dumping the magical power he'd recently channeled and igniting the void transfer talisman once more, vanishing instantly.

The squad of Celestial Fire Realm geniuses that Brahma Heaven aimed for consisted of the True Martial Realm transmigrators dispatched by Ning Qi to the Celestial Fire Realm.

Confronting the Vast Realm's three armies, they felt utterly powerless, dreading the loss of their reincarnated existences right there.

Regret didn't plague them; their sole sorrow was failing to contribute more to Realm Lord Ning Qi.

While they battled fiercely against the Vast Realm forces in desperation, a ripple in the nearby void caught their senses.

Out stepped Brahma Heaven!

The group spotted him but offered no words.

They were far too occupied fending off Vast Realm cultivators to spare a glance at this spoiled successor.

To their shock, Brahma Heaven blurted, 'You've enjoyed countless favors from my Brahma family; now repay the debt. Block them for me!'

'Huh?'

The group couldn't help but feel puzzled, unclear on this man's scheme.

Yet those with sharp instincts detected the three Vast Realm commanders hurtling toward them and grasped Brahma Heaven's ploy at once.

'Brothers, trouble's brewing—Brahma Heaven dragged the three commanders right to us.'

'What's his game in pulling this?'

'Look, he's gripping a talisman; he just teleported in, so he's clearly plotting to trade our lives for his escape time!'

'Bastard, we've shouldered the heaviest load of Vast Realm foes, barely slaying any here, and now he's dumping even more trouble on us while he's all geared up?'

They weren't native Celestial Fire Realm folk but arrivals via reincarnation, so they harbored some attachment to the Celestial Fire Realm.

But Brahma Heaven's cruelty knew no bounds, and his Brahma family exploited every gain, forcing them into brutal fights for cultivation resources where half the spoils lined the Brahma family's coffers, all under the guise of generosity.

The group pressed their assaults on Vast Realm cultivators while firing up a group chat to rage and plot their next steps.

'We're goners regardless, so why not take down this spoiled brat first!'

'Hold off,' one countered, 'the Realm Lord will settle scores for us eventually with this heir; each extra Vast Realm cultivator we drop gives us another coordinate, and in our final moments, we can relay more to the Realm Lord.'

'Fine, ignore him and focus!'

'Curse it, without the Realm Lord, I'd flay this scum myself!'

The spiritual qi inside them burst forth completely, every rule's power unleashed in a frenzy, driving them to fight with renewed ferocity.

Brahma Heaven lingered in their midst, his gaze darting about.

His spiritual sense picked up Fei Bing and the pair; they hovered several miles distant still.

'Nearly time—these fools ought to buy me enough delay till I bolt!'

Fei Bing and her companions observed Brahma Heaven skulking amid the Mountain and Sea Realm survivors, their brows furrowing deeply.

'Isn't this scoundrel utterly shameless?'

The three gave chase, all the while exchanging mental transmissions.

Hua Jieyu remarked:

'He's brimming with magical treasures and spiritual artifacts; even we three would need ages to subdue him. Yet instead of leveraging that, he flees to his own ranks battling my forces, turning them into human shields, cowering behind as their deaths slow us down. Is the Mountain and Sea Realm truly this ruthless?'

'Forget such matters—they're Mountain and Sea Realm adversaries, and even if Brahma Heaven uses them as fodder, it was their realm that invaded ours first. Stay clear-headed, no room for sentiment!'

Though separated by space, the three unleashed strikes anew.

Dreadful energies slammed into the True Martial Realm cluster without delay.

In that instant, Fei Bing and the others' eyes bulged wide, as if beholding the impossible.

The group, locked in combat against their army, started vanishing from the edges inward, layer upon layer, right before them.

'Did we misjudge—did Brahma Heaven head there to rescue them?'

This notion flickered through the trio's thoughts.

But the following moment demolished that idea.

The figures up front dissolved away without a sound, isolating Brahma Heaven in the middle.

Brahma Heaven gripped the void transfer talisman, his face twisted in ghostly horror.

He bellowed in fury, 'What in blazes is this? It was meant to whisk me away, not these weaklings—damn it all!!!'

Spotting the group's disappearance, he first assumed he'd botched the void transfer talisman's use.

But after his outburst, feeling the talisman's energy unspent and building steadily, Brahma Heaven regained composure, utterly baffled.

Still, with self-teleportation viable, that sufficed.

As incoming assaults bore down, Brahma Heaven mused, 'Almost there!'

Right before the blows connected, Brahma Heaven amassed the power for distant transfer, his form starting to blur out.

Brahma Heaven swapped dread for mocking chuckles, declaring, 'Fei Bing, etch this in your mind—my father Fan City ranks among the Mountain and Sea Realm's top fifty powerhouses. When I summon him, you're all finished!'

Fei Bing and the duo had closed in.

Their strikes phased harmlessly through Brahma Heaven's fading body; he existed in some ethereal phase.

Brahma Heaven's warning darkened the three's faces like ink.

His claim rang true to them.

Brahma Heaven overflowed with magical treasures and spiritual artifacts, far from ordinary. If he chose to vanish, success was assured.

'Blast it, we let this vermin get away!'

Neither they nor Brahma Heaven spared a thought for the vanished True Martial Realm folk.

…

Within a close void pocket.

Ning Qi eyed the True Martial Realm cultivators encircling him; freshly shifted over, they looked dazed, frozen mid-strike.

'Realm Lord?' one gasped.

'What? The Realm Lord's present?'

'Realm Lord, your timing's perfect—you pulled us from the brink!'

Joy surged through the assembly.

Ning Qi waved them off, however, stating, 'Save the thanks—we can't allow that one to flee!'

He indicated Brahma Heaven's dim outline from afar.

Brahma Heaven's shape had turned nearly transparent, on the verge of total departure.

His lips curled in taunting laughter at Fei Bing and company.

Abruptly, Fei Bing and the others fixed on Brahma Heaven.

Brahma Heaven's translucent form abruptly recoiled, solidifying rapidly.

The onlookers witnessed this odd reversal without comprehension, yet Brahma Heaven's escape was foiled for sure.

Brahma Heaven kept chuckling, but his mirth caught in his throat mid-laugh.

'Why haven't I left?' he cried in terror.