"Did you think you could defeat me through sheer numbers? You're dreaming... Ah, no—"
Just as Qin Fengming's disdainful voice rang out, a sudden ominous premonition surged in his heart. His figure, which had been speeding away, came to an abrupt halt, then flashed and shot backward.
Qin Fengming reacted with astonishing speed, and his response was utterly decisive, but in the end, he was still a step too slow.
The two sides had originally been three to four hundred zhang apart, but once Qin Fengming unleashed the Profound Sky Evasive Steps, that distance was crossed in an instant.
When Qin Fengming sensed the danger, a vast gray mist had already been driven madly by Ding Jian and swept around him.
As Qin Fengming rapidly waved both hands and sent dozens of Azure Spirit Sword Lights shooting out, a succession of immense explosions suddenly rang out from within the gray mist.
A tremendous blast of explosive energy instantly engulfed Qin Fengming.
Ding Jian truly was a vicious and scheming sea cultivator. After realizing that his plan had failed, he did not hesitate to seize control of the people behind him and hurl them directly before Qin Fengming. He then detonated the vast magical power within their bodies without the slightest hesitation.
Among these twenty-odd people, three were Ding Jian's trusted subordinates, and their cultivation had reached the mid Nascent Soul stage. Although only two of the rest were in the Early Nascent Soul stage, all the others were human cultivators in the Core Formation realm. If they self-destructed together, the resulting explosive might was enough to kill a peak Nascent Soul cultivator on the spot.
"Do you really think a mere self-detonation can kill this Qin? What a pipe dream!" Amid a loud shout, a figure wrapped in emerald flames