Super Battleship Great Sun roared thunderously, spitting out an invisible beam of light before vanishing from everyone's sight and divine senses.
Azure Wood Dao Child Ji Liuyue's heart jolted, and she shrank further back into the crowd.
Ancient tree branches rapidly grew from between her fingers, spreading out to wrap her petite body layer by layer.
These ancient branches came directly from a Heavenly Azure Divine Wood sapling passed down by the Azure Wood Immortal Sect for hundreds of thousands of years. Mysterious, ancient runes flickered in and out of sight upon every branch.
They looked jade-green and tender, but were in truth harder than most high-grade Spiritual Metals in the world. They also possessed supreme resilience, easily dispersing power sufficient to destroy a mountain into a wisp of breeze that stirred one's hair.
"It's Ying Sanyi! Retreat!"
At that moment, the Heavenly Secrets Dao Child, a young man prematurely aged before his time, issued a warning.
A minuscule instant too late, within an utterly ordinary patch of invisible space, a mass of gray mist shuddered in alarm. An ice-cold premonition flooded his heart as an intense crisis of death descended.
"No, impossible!"
"How did he find me so quickly?"
"The Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect couldn't do it. Even the Sword Sons of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion from years past shouldn't have been able to do it!"
Ying Sanyi could not believe it.
Concealment and assassination were the foundation upon which Shadow Demon Abyss stood. He could not reveal himself beneath the sunlight to wage a defensive battle. He had to take the initiative, move alone, and assassinate. That was only natural.
But how had he been discovered so quickly?
"Thousand Shadows Void Splitting Escape!"
At the threshold of life and death, Ying Sanyi could no longer care about