The white hand reaching out from the spatial gate easily caught Jia Xin's body, swiftly neutralizing the full force of Yu Ming's finger strike.
"Are you all right, Jia Xin? Sorry, I was a little late. I thought Guo Chen's battle would last longer."
The voice from the spatial rift made Jia Xin, blood at the corner of his mouth, smile knowingly. "You bastard, you nearly missed the best moment. Put this away..."
When Jia Xin looked again at the Chaos Fruit he had snatched, his brow suddenly furrowed. He immediately crushed the entire fruit in his grip. Other than a surge of chaotic energy spilling from within, there was no Chaos Primordial Core of Azathoth inside at all.
At the same time, white-haired Zhang Chen emerged from the spatial passage with a greatsword on his back, placing a hand on Jia Xin's shoulder.
"I never thought even you could be deceived, Jia Xin. But it's fine. We'll just take it back from Yu Ming." Zhang Chen smiled as he stood shoulder to shoulder with Jia Xin on the same front.
At the center of the battlefield, Yu Ming remained in the pose of pointing with one finger. Upon seeing Zhang Chen appear beside Jia Xin, several pieces finally connected, and he understood why Jia Xin's inner demon had been severed at the crucial moment.
"Zhang Chen, you really..." Yu Ming's expression froze at first, followed by uninhibited laughter spilling from his mouth.
When Gu Chen, standing beside Yu Ming, saw that Zhang Chen was unharmed, he took an extreme action.
Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Chen reached into his chest, tore out his heart, and crushed it completely. With the destruction of his body's core, Gu Chen's body immediately exploded from within, vast quantities of blood pouring down and