"Ahhh!" Gu Shaoqiu screamed miserably. Bones throughout his body crackled as they were crushed one by one by Thought Energy. His body and mind both plunged into boundless agony. While screaming, he roused the last of his strength and activated a talisman mark hidden within his sea of consciousness. "Come protect me, now!!"
Gurgle, gurgle. Space rippled as though endless waves were spreading across water. A man emerged from the ripples, flew forward in a single step, and struck at Dark Abyss with an upraised palm. It was Chuan Ge. Astral Qi compressed the air into layers of glazed crystal. The terrifying killing intent whipped Dark Abyss's robes into a wild flutter, its momentum utterly astonishing.
Dark Abyss's gaze flickered. At this moment, he could have forcibly opened a secret realm with Gu Shaoqiu and avoided that strike.
But he did not.
Instead, he brought his right hand's sword fingers together and suddenly swept them sideways before him. Boom! Dark-red lightning burst forth in crackling arcs, its thunder like a dragon's roar as it cleaved apart the other man's momentum.
"Bold!" Chuan Ge's expression remained unchanged as he added another thirty percent of force to his hand. He had already seen through it: the attacker was merely on the Second Heavenly Layer. Though he was an exceptionally powerful Second Heavenly Layer cultivator, an Astral Qi expert fighting someone on the Second Heavenly Layer was naturally guaranteed victory.
This brat had overestimated himself and risked danger, daring to provoke him and abandoning his fleeting chance. This move would take his life!
Astral Qi blazed fiercely, completely engulfing Chuan Ge's body as it crushed through space like rotten wood being pulled apart.
Yet in the next instant, an invisible, colorless chain suddenly emerged from The Void and blocked Chuan Ge's path.
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