"Who is it?"
Luo Bei had no time to think. Almost by reflex, he used the Jing Nian Tong Ming Jue to wrap layer upon layer of invisible shields around his body. With a puff!, as if striking defeated leather, a streak of green brilliance seemed to emerge from the red glazed bricks behind Luo Bei. In truth, it passed silently through those bricks as if they were nothing, crashing into the invisible shield at his back.
Luo Bei had already cultivated the Jing Nian Tong Ming Jue to the ninth level. Though he had cast it in haste, Cihang Zhai's Jing Nian Tong Ming Jue was a powerful art balanced between attack and defense. The invisible shield Luo Bei had released possessed enough defensive power to withstand even a strike from an ordinary Natal Sword Essence.
Yet this green radiance that had suddenly shot from behind him smashed through Luo Bei's invisible shield head-on and struck the center of his back.
Luo Bei let out a faint grunt. Tong Bugu's crimson robe was itself a defensive magic treasure of exceptional strength, and Luo Bei's physical body was already incomparably formidable. After shattering his invisible shield and striking his back, this green radiance had not even pierced Tong Bugu's crimson robe. But its power was enough to alarm Luo Bei. Though it had not injured him, he could already tell that the cultivator who had cast this Daoist Art was absolutely no weaker than him.
Without the slightest hesitation, Luo Bei immediately steadied the true essence shaken by that green radiance. His entire body flashed sideways several zhang in an instant, evading the second streak of green radiance fired from behind. At the same time, he reached out and grabbed. An invisible force clenched like a giant unseen hand, crushing