The two of them flew to the center of the lake, and Leo signaled to stop temporarily.
“Seraphina, I plan to set up a formation. This might be the only way to completely get rid of them,” Leo said, looking at Seraphina.
“Leave it to me,” Seraphina said after observing the surroundings.
“You have a way to shake them off?” Leo asked expectantly.
Seraphina nodded, her slender fingers quickly forming a series of intricate and ancient hand seals. Her fingertips seemed to dance with the blue shadow of a phoenix.
Watching Seraphina’s movements and feeling an ancient aura, Leo’s eyes sparkled. He had a hunch that Seraphina’s cultivation technique was no less powerful than his own Nine Transformations of the Stars.
In fact, back in the Azure Dragon Mountains, when Leo saw Seraphina fighting the Three-Crowned Golden Flower Python, he already felt that her cultivation technique was extraordinary.
As Seraphina’s hand seals changed, translucent water energy surged out, pouring into the lake beneath them. The originally calm lake surface suddenly began to churn violently. Then, a translucent light blue water mirror, tens of meters wide and long, rose from the lake.
The mirror reflected the images of Leo and Seraphina. Seraphina’s hand seals changed again. The images in the mirror brightened, and then the entire water mirror burst into blue light. The blue light quickly condensed into nine pairs of figures in front of Leo and Seraphina.
The nine pairs of figures were illusions of Leo and Seraphina. The illusions not only looked exactly like them in appearance and clothing but also emitted the same aura as Leo and Seraphina.
Looking at the nine pairs of illusions in front of him, Leo’s eyes showed a hint of surprise. “Seraphina, this technique of yours shouldn’t be from Falling Blossom Palace, right?” Leo hesitated for a moment but couldn’t help asking out of curiosity.
Seraphina was silent for a moment, then nodded.
“It seems this beauty has some secrets,” Leo thought to himself, noticing the expression on Seraphina’s face.
At this moment, the sound of something cutting through the air sharply approached; Skull Walker and his group had caught up. Seraphina waved her jade-like hand, and the giant water mirror in front of them turned into water droplets and fell back into the lake.
“Let’s go!” Seraphina said, looking at Leo with her beautiful eyes.
Immediately, their figures disappeared like lightning from where they stood. At the same time, the nine pairs of illusions flew off in different directions.
When Skull Walker and his group reached the lakeside, they saw ten pairs of Leo and Seraphina flying away in different directions. This scene added a few more layers of seriousness to their already grim expressions.
Skull Walker and his six companions released their spiritual senses to carefully perceive the ten pairs of Leo and Seraphina’s auras. To their astonishment, all ten pairs had identical auras.
“What a cunning brat!” Evan Malice shouted angrily.
Unable to distinguish between them, Skull Walker and his group could only hover in mid-air for a moment, watching helplessly as the ten pairs of figures grew farther away.
“Wyatt, what should we do?” Walker asked Wyatt.
Wyatt’s rugged face looked extremely troubled. This situation gave him a severe case of decision paralysis. If they let those two go, along with the Jade Spirit Crystalfruit, he would never be able to accept it. The Jade Spirit Crystalfruit was extremely rare; consuming it could purify spiritual energy and greatly benefit high-level Spirit Saint cultivators by consolidating and enhancing their cultivation.
“The illusions shouldn’t last long. We’ll split up and chase them. If anyone finds them, use the spiritual sense Spirit Scroll to relay the message immediately!” Wyatt said solemnly.
With that said, Wyatt chose a direction and pursued it. Walker and Uddodo each chose a direction and chased after them as well.
Seeing the Webb Siblings head off in three different directions, Skull Walker, The Malevolent Twins, and Sky Blade’s expressions changed repeatedly.
“Damn it, are we gambling on luck now? A one-in-ten chance… let’s bet on it. We’ll chase too!” Evan Malice said with a dark expression to Derek Malice beside him.
Derek Malice snorted coldly in his hoarse voice, “Even if we don’t catch them now, we’ll eventually encounter those two in Ancient Tyrant Pill Sovereign’s palace or elsewhere. When that happens, we’ll tear them apart!”
With that said, The Malevolent Twins chose a direction and chased after it. The Malevolent Twins always stuck together like glue, so they didn’t split up.
Seeing the Webb Siblings and The Malevolent Twins leave, Sky Blade remained silent for a moment before choosing a direction to pursue as well.
In the end, only Skull Walker was left by the lakeside. His old face was as cold as ice, showing hesitation. A one-in-ten chance was indeed too low.
While Skull Walker hesitated, a massive black streak of light rushed toward him. The enraged Crocodile King had arrived. Although he knew the Crocodile King was severely injured, Skull Walker didn’t want to confront it alone. He flashed into the water and disappeared.
After Skull Walker’s figure vanished, the Crocodile King arrived at the lakeside. Its fierce eyes flickered for a moment before it chose a direction and continued its pursuit.
After the Crocodile King left, Skull Walker reappeared by the lakeside. The cunning Skull Walker looked in the direction where the Crocodile King had gone, his eyes flashing with light.
In Skull Walker’s view, since the Crocodile King guarded the Jade Spirit Crystalfruit tree day and night and had a keen sense of smell, it might be tracking the scent left by Leo when he touched the Jade Spirit Crystalfruit.
Understanding this point, Skull Walker sneered coldly. Without further hesitation, he followed after the Crocodile King.
It must be said that Skull Walker’s judgment was accurate; the direction in which the Crocodile King pursued was indeed where Leo and Seraphina were fleeing.
After flying over the lake, Leo and Seraphina entered another forest. Compared to the previous forest, this one had fewer trees but more mountains and rocks. They continued to fly swiftly among the mountains.
After more than ten minutes, Leo and Seraphina could no longer sense any pursuing presence behind them.
“It seems we’ve shaken them off,” Leo said after glancing back.
“Yes,” Seraphina responded.
Leo scanned the surrounding environment and said, “Let’s find a place to consume the Jade Spirit Crystalfruit to enhance our strength.”
After moving forward for a while longer, relying on his spiritual sense, Leo quickly found a dry cave. They rushed into the cave without hesitation.
The reason they couldn’t sense the Crocodile King’s presence was simple: its speed was too slow, creating a significant distance between them. However, its nose was incredibly sharp, following the scent of the Jade Spirit Crystalfruit closely.