A Skirmish

Demon Pool World, a desolate wilderness.

Li Qi surveyed the situation before him.

Two fourth-rank opponents, both demons. One was a pure demon-path cultivator who appeared to specialize in brute force; the other was a demon that had entered the Five Aggregates Demonic Path.

As for the fifth- and sixth-rank spectators, they could basically be ignored.

Yet Li Qi paid no attention to the enemies before him. He was sending a message to that hybrid Lu Wu from earlier.

He apologized for having promised not to make a move casually before, but it seemed that could not be helped now, so he had better give advance notice.

Li Qi finished transmitting his message.

Then, in the next instant—

The bowstring gave a clear, ringing twang, and an arrow like a battering ram accelerated toward Li Qi!

Its speed reached the speed of light—

In other words, the Heavenly Way Limit.

And once matter reached the speed of light, its mass itself became "infinite."

An arrow infinitely massive and infinitely fast struck toward Li Qi in that instant. There was no time to react. The moment the arrow was loosed, the fact of "hitting" had already been decided.

Dodging this arrow was impossible unless it had been aimed crooked from the start. The arrow's speed was infinitely fast, so the arrow itself was supported by the universe's law of causality. One had to overturn causality itself to evade it before it struck.

In truth, the moment Li Qi heard that clear bowstring's cry, he had already been hit.

Even Li Qi had failed to evade it.

The arrow smashed violently into Li Qi.

"Smashed" was the only word for it, because the arrow had already disintegrated. Infinite force had melted it completely, transforming it into a violent torrent of high-energy particles.