Despite the man being hundreds of meters away at this point, his attack reached him the moment he released it.
Multiple trees were destroyed in a single attack as Pearl's spear struck the man in the back, immediately causing the man's escape talisman to protect him, despite the fact that he had been using his Dao of Hardness to protect himself.
Pearl pulled back his spear and his distorted vision changed, going back to normal. He released the breath that he had been holding when he was finally done.
"Good job!" Alex said from the side, looking at the destruction. "What did you do at the end? Did you use your Dao of Shrinking Space?"
Pearl nodded.
Alex looked back. He had sensed what had happened. The distortion to the space was great enough that he had noticed space folding it on itself multiple times until the man was within reach of Pearl's weapon.
