Where venomous fire burned the void, an azure lotus bloomed in the sea of flames

"How dare you, you wretch!"

Inside the Cloud Hall Palace, Lin Fan sprang to his feet in a fury.

The changes within the Qingqiu Illusion Realm had come too quickly. No one had expected someone to intervene with a sneak attack from behind just as Jiang Sheng and Zhong Yuxiu were about to decide their battle.

Red fire sprang from heavenly origin, and the pointed arrow streaked like a meteor.

Judging by the eruption of his aura, the attacker, too, possessed a cave profound Dao fruit!

Moreover, his timing was ruthlessly precise. A breath earlier, and Jiang Sheng would have noticed and dodged; a breath later, and Jiang Sheng would have had room to react.

Only by striking at the fiercest, most critical moment of Jiang Sheng and Zhong Yuxiu's duel, when both unleashed their killing moves and could spare no attention, could he leave Jiang Sheng unable to evade.

He could either endure Zhong Yuxiu's Fate-Severing, Life-Cutting Art head-on and let the arrow of fire-origin crimson venom pierce his back, its fiery poison inevitably injuring his soul, true spirit, organs, and meridians, or turn to block that vicious sword strike and let Zhong Yuxiu seize his fortune and fate.

Such seasoned, vicious methods left not only the beings of myriad worlds atop the nine mountain ridges outside Moon-Drawing Mountain shocked and frightened, but everyone within the Cloud Hall Palace pale as well.

Kui Yue, Lingyin, Zhu He, and Liuyu all paled. Even Crested Ibis, Blazing Owl, Ying Zhen, and Lu Jiu looked aghast. This turn was far beyond their expectations. No one had imagined someone would launch a sneak attack from behind at this moment!

Such methods were more than despicable. They were a public disgrace before the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

The expressions of Qingqiu's Yousu Mu,