The sudden turn of events came without warning. Just as Qin Fengming attacked Zhu Yao, Zhu Yao, who had seemed completely unaware, also unleashed some terrifying attack technique at Qin Fengming.
This left Qin Fengming utterly baffled.
He was certain he had not given himself away, and truly could not understand why Zhu Yao had been able to attack him first. That was precisely why he had failed to dodge.
Qin Fengming's attack was ultimately a little faster than Zhu Yao's. Blood sprayed first, but Zhu Yao's attack was not interrupted by it. His savage assault erupted and instantly swept Qin Fengming into its midst.
It was a terrifying technique, its energy incomparably violent. It took the shape of countless energy vortices, which churned madly like a volcano suddenly erupting. In the blink of an eye, they spread at astonishing speed, veiling dozens of miles in every direction before continuing to surge outward.
Qin Fengming, closest to the scene, bore the brunt. His body was suddenly seized and twisted by forces like iron hoops, contorting grotesquely without end.
The vortices contained a binding force with an immense ability to tear and twist. Even Qin Fengming's powerful body suddenly felt his bones being wrenched with tremendous force, as though his skeleton were about to be torn apart. At the same time, terrifying shockwaves and tearing power ravaged his flesh.
This was not a cultivator's self-detonation, but an attack aimed at the physical body—one that could ignore a cultivator's protective spiritual radiance.
When the roaring explosion suddenly erupted, the two Three Realms cultivators, who had already been despairing, were equally terrified. But they were farther from the energy shockwave than Qin Fengming, and their fear did not make them forget to dodge. They immediately fled frantically into the distance.
The two were