"When was it? During that earlier blood rain?"
Jin Geng had hidden beneath the ground in his lightning-element state for quite some time. Earlier, he had used the illusion of recovering his body while hiding within the blood hand, but in reality, he had turned his true body into lightning and seeped underground through the blood rain. The bloodwater pooling across the ground further concealed his aura below, and he had waited precisely for this perfect opportunity to launch a surprise attack.
The spearhead forcibly pierced up through the lower half of Yuan Zhi's body. A thin line of lightning shot into the heavens, punching through the clouds and forming a sunken vortex.
"Damn it!" Jin Geng's expression darkened. Even a sneak attack from virtually zero distance had apparently failed to achieve the expected result.
Even though Yuan Zhi had not noticed him, during the exceedingly brief instant between Jin Geng bursting from underground and the spearhead piercing Yuan Zhi's body, Yuan Zhi's immensely powerful reflexes had still allowed his body to rapidly twist aside in evasion.
The spear that should have pierced straight through Yuan Zhi instead tore through the left side of his body, the hole running through his shoulder.
Similar to what had happened before, the inside of the pierced body exploded amid violent flashes of lightning. Flesh and blood splattered everywhere. With only half his body remaining, Yuan Zhi's internal structure was clearly visible to the naked eye. He had no organs like those of a human; instead, a locust tree had taken root within him.
The locust tree inside immediately grew humanoid branches, temporarily filling in Yuan Zhi's left half. Due to the damage to his body, Yuan Zhi's retreat to widen the distance between them was visibly slower than before.
Naturally, Jin Geng and