Gu Xi roared and threw a punch behind him without looking back.
As he struck behind him, he decisively activated Will Shatter.
No matter what was behind him, Gu Xi had only one thought: use his skill first.
Then Gu Xi heard a scream. Something seemed to have been flung away and crashed heavily onto the ground.
Next, the Lich's Death Sorcerer Force Field activated, turning everything within the field into an aura belonging to Gu Xi.
"No..."
The chilling abomination aura behind Gu Xi was gone. Only then did he relax his tense nerves and slowly turn toward where it had been.
Gu Xi turned slowly because he had been worried that turning too quickly might trigger some bizarre change.
Fortunately, no strange transformation occurred before Gu Xi finished turning and saw what lay behind him.
He saw a coffin broken cleanly into two halves lying on the ground.
It was a western-style coffin, but its lid was made of Soul Crystal. The coffin was filled with fresh flowers, and when it split in two, all the flowers scattered across the floor.
What left Gu Xi most speechless was that an Old Woman with wrinkled skin and pale hair was pinned beneath the coffin lid, lying face-down on the ground.
She wore a blue paper funeral garment, and her face was coated in a thick layer of White Powder, making it as white as snow.
As Gu Xi walked toward the Old Woman, she seemed to be struggling to twist herself up from the ground.
But this was Gu Xi's Death Sorcerer Force Field. Everything within it belonged to Gu Xi.
In that instant, everything she had was stripped away.
Gu Xi stepped forward and grabbed the Old Woman by the collar.
The moment he saw her face from