It still sensed the fluctuation of aura from a distance and came over here to investigate.

Anyway, my strength has just broken through.

Jiang Feng wasn’t fully confident in facing that Cyan Python.

The other party dared to come alone—maybe it’s some peerless Great Demon, with an extraordinary bloodline, perhaps even mastering the Five Elements Spiritual Root. If I can avoid provoking it, I definitely should. Better to dodge first.

The Cyan Python sensed the fluctuation of aura in the valley.

It turned into a streak of green light and dashed inside.

Its body appeared right where Jiang Feng had just been sitting. A cyan-green glow shimmered over its scale armor, then it shot up to the mountaintop, landing on a maple tree. From far away, it saw Jiang Feng sprinting across the surface of a river.

"Whoosh!"

It remembered the figure outside the manor.

Its forked tongue flicked out, turning into a streak of green light as it shot toward Jiang Feng in pursuit.

The Cyan Python glided across the river’s surface.

It left a layer of frost everywhere, and for a moment the sparkling river surface froze over.

"Whoosh!"

Jiang Feng didn’t look back. He exploded with his Three-legged Body Technique, the river surface turning into a Golden Road beneath him. It was just like when he had shaken off Xiao Zhan before, only this time his speed was several times faster than back then.

Yet he still felt the Cyan Python behind him was right on his heels.

"Why the hell is it chasing me?"

Jiang Feng frowned deeply.

"If I can recognize it, it definitely can recognize me."

"Last time it let me go—so why is it after me now?"

Jiang Feng was utterly frustrated.

After his strength hadn’t yet broken through, he thought he’d shaken off the Cyan Python, but it turned out the python had let him go. Now that it was coming after him, Jiang Feng felt like it was here to settle old scores.

"Squeak squeak!"

The Cyan Python’s body changed shape.

It transformed from a giant snake into something the size of a chopstick.

Its speed surged dramatically.

A crack split across the surface of the water.

Jiang Feng felt an icy chill on his back, as if he’d be caught at any second.

He remembered that the Three-legged Body Technique could still be upgraded.

Last time, he’d spent twelve points to raise the Body Technique to the Minor Achievement Realm.

So without hesitation, he poured 240,000 Fortune Points into the Three-legged Body Technique.

The panel information changed.

Fortune: 588,756

Skills: Three-legged Body Technique (Great Success+)

"Whoosh!"

In an instant, Jiang Feng saw a Golden Road appear ahead, streaks of golden footprints glowing before him. He stepped on those footprints, his speed doubling.

The Cyan Python only felt that Jiang Feng ahead of it seemed to be yanked forward by some power, and in a flash, the gap widened to over a thousand meters.

If not for its spiritual sense locking onto Jiang Feng, his figure would have already been hidden by the meandering reeds along the river.

"Screech!"

It saw a flash of golden light sweep across the river and remembered Wu Weiwei’s misfortune and the unique qualities of the Three-legged Body Technique. The Cyan Python turned into a streak of green Sword Qi, slashed through the reeds, its speed increasing a bit more, and shot straight toward Jiang Feng.

But alas.

Jiang Feng’s Three-legged Body Technique had reached the Great Success Realm.

His speed had doubled from before.

Although the Cyan Python was a Spiritual Snake by birth, with an awe-inspiring bloodline, it could only watch as Jiang Feng’s figure slowly slipped out of the range of its spiritual sense, vanishing from perception.

"Squeak screech!"

Infuriated, it coiled its body around a towering ancient tree, staring into the distance at where Jiang Feng had fled. When it was sure that it couldn’t find him anymore, it squeezed the tree until it was crushed to pieces.

Jiang Feng sprinted onward.

He dashed through patches of forest, flashed past lakeshores—felt like he’d run from the north all the way to the Turkic lands, and finally stopped in a stone forest, pressing his hands down onto a rock, gasping desperately for breath.

"Seriously, why is it chasing me?"

Jiang Feng racked his brain to no avail.

"Am I too much of a coward? Why didn’t I think to fight it?"

"Isn’t it just a snake?"

"I could chop it into noodles in minutes."

Jiang Feng cursed out loud.

Then he checked his Fortune Points.

Name: Jiang Feng

Fortune: 775,612

That’s a jump of nearly 190,000.

"Whoosh!"

Jiang Feng left behind an afterimage in the stone forest, continuing to dash forward. He felt that being in Turkic territory might actually be safer than staying in Great Tang.

For the sake of safety, he made a big detour, just in case the Cyan Python doubled back and tracked him straight through.