Lu Ce almost instantly pulled back his leg and sprang into the air. His combat instincts made him defend at once, because Xie Antong was no longer the same as before.
Previously, she could not possibly have posed any threat to him in terms of combat strength. But now, with her strength having surged, she had reached the level of an "extremely dangerous" existence.
Yet as he retreated, Lu Ce could not help but let out a sigh of relief.
He knew her action had been deliberate. It was a tactic she had often used to "tease" him back when Chosen Paradise had first descended upon the world.
She was using their past to tell him that she was still Xie Antong. She had merely gained something, rather than changed into something else.
His body spun like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, he flew into the air—but he did not truly escape.
A divine glint flashed through Xie Antong's eyes. Her hand moved more than a hundred times faster than before as she abruptly reached out.
Within a quarter of a second, the two moved like lightning. Sharp gusts split the air through the empty room, and afterimages of them appeared in several places.
Smack!
A crisp sound rang out, and Xie Antong's lips instantly curled upward—she had grabbed Lu Ce's ankle!
This simple exchange represented one thing—Xie Antong had won the first half-move of that brief clash.
Looking at the hand gripping his ankle, Lu Ce's eyes clouded over slightly. Then, the corners of his lips slowly rose as well.
Heh... One expert after another had emerged from the human faction, and whenever they wanted to fight someone, they all came looking for him first, huh!
Still, getting to play more high-level matches lately was a