At the edge of the pitch-black Dark Abyss, a humanoid figure suddenly materialized, silently appearing out of thin air.
After one Flame Escape, the Formless Clone had closed about one-twentieth of the distance toward the center of the shadowy domain. Although Flame Escape could cover eight hundred meters at once, this was but a short distance compared to the shadowy domain's nearly forty-thousand-meter diameter.
Gu Ran was well aware of this, but he didn't immediately activate Flame Escape a second time. Without the True Devil Body, the Formless Clone needed several seconds to recover between consecutive uses of the evasion technique, which itself could only be maintained for a total of 20 seconds. How could he afford to waste those precious seconds?
After free-falling for roughly 0.5 seconds, he activated Flame Escape for the second time, advancing another 800 meters.
