"Blood Consort, watch out! He's about to teleport!" The Black-Robed Man immediately understood the meaning behind my move. The moment Blood Consort heard him, she swept her sleeve, and a flash of light suddenly streaked past. Blood Consort vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a pool of blood!
My spell, however, did not stop abruptly. Instead, it teleported the strange blood far away! My heart clenched at once, because Scarlet Annihilation was still moving forward!
Seeing my expression change, the Black-Robed Man chuckled. "Young Friend Xia, you're still as sinister and cunning as ever. Give you even a moment, and you can come up with all kinds of inconceivable tricks, leaving people unable to guard against you. But surely you haven't forgotten that when I was young, I wasn't exactly the same as you?"
Sss, sss, sss!
Scarlet Annihilation struck the barrier of the Grand Array, quickly causing the entire barrier to suffer a sudden drain of energy. At that moment, Blood Consort's eerie laughter drifted through the darkness. The woman leisurely walked out from the darkness before me. Although her face was wreathed in smiles, her eyes brimmed with killing intent. It seemed that my move had left her in such a sorry state that, naturally, she would not let me live now.
If Grandmaster were still here, killing this woman would be as easy as crushing a chicken. Even I, if I had not arranged the formation with astral stars and had not been controlling the Grand Array with my nine proving-the-Dao meridians, would not have let her act so arrogantly. At the very least, someone in the Initial Proving-the-Dao Realm might not have been able to do anything to me.
I stared coldly at the section of formation wall sliced away by Scarlet Annihilation. In an