Devonte was fast, in fact it almost seemed as if he was just teleporting through the forest, and Alex knew that even for cultivators in the Heaven's gate, spatial manipulation and control was very hard if not out rightly impossible.
Not unless you were on of those very few, very talented people that were born with the spatial elements of space, gravity and time. It might not seem like it, but all three were separate elements, and one can not exist without the other when it comes to traveling through space. Either way, Devonte seemed to be traveling through the shadows of the trees, or maybe even the tree themselves as Alex would see him on the branches of a tree 20.meters away, seconds after being on the root of one 2 meters closer.