"Who goes there?!" he shouted. "This is sacred Buddhist ground. Do not trespass!"
Could Yuanjiu Shidi no longer hold himself back and had already made his move?
Or perhaps... this was a sorcerer sent by the Seven Stars Bureau of Military Affairs?
Either way, outsiders would not be allowed to run wild in the temple!
As his words fell, the abbot seized his monk's staff, leaped into the air, and brought it smashing down toward the anomaly!
As he flew through the air, he vaguely caught sight of his target—he had not been mistaken. There really was someone there! As the angle and lighting shifted, the abbot could just make out a figure standing in the middle of the courtyard. Yet this person's body displayed extraordinarily strange colors, nothing like any variation clothing could produce. His lower body was grayish-brown, nearly identical to the paving stones, while his upper body was even dimmer, almost black. Without close inspection, he blended completely into the night.
It was the first time the abbot had ever seen such camouflage.
Even more incredible, the boundaries between those colors kept shifting, as if deliberately muddling his vision. Had he approached slowly instead of leaping through the air, he likely would never have noticed that subtle change on the other man's body at all!
The monk's staff descended with the force of a thousand jun. If the other man did not dodge, his face would surely be smashed into a bloody mess—
Seeing no sign that he intended to evade, the abbot instinctively withdrew thirty percent of his strength.
No matter what, he did not wish for the temple to become enemies with Seven Stars.
Yet the instant the monk's staff struck the other man's shoulder, it felt like hitting cotton! It was as though the