They had heard the explosion and rushed out, only for the sea demon's aura to assail them and nearly plunge them into an illusion. For a moment, they had had no chance to notice anything else.
Only now did they finally realize that Chen Fei's aura seemed to have reached the peak Joint Aperture Realm!
They had mentally prepared themselves to encounter a peak third-order beast. After all, anything could happen while fleeing. They might even encounter a Demon King and be casually wiped out.
But Chen Fei being at the peak Joint Aperture Realm was something they had never imagined.
The last time Chen Fei had revealed his strength was a year ago. Hadn't he been in the late Joint Aperture Realm then? Even that realm had been difficult for them to accept.
Yet now, just one year later, he had cultivated straight from the late Joint Aperture Realm to the peak Joint Aperture Realm?
No matter what heavenly materials and earthly treasures he had consumed, he should not have been able to leap directly from the late Joint Aperture Realm to the peak Joint Aperture Realm.
"Keep moving with the fleet. I'll lure it away." Chen Fei glanced at Tong Zhongqiu and the others, then flashed away in another direction.
Tong Zhongqiu and the others had sensed that this third-order demonic beast was stronger than an ordinary peak third-order beast. Their senses had not deceived them, for the beast before them was a Demon King's descendant.
A Demon King bloodline flowed through its body. Even setting aside the innate abilities nurtured within that bloodline, its demonic power alone was far more potent than that of other peak third-order beasts.
Kua Rong glanced at the fleet below with its single eye, then darted after Chen Fei.
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