I reached out to grab the spear, but in an instant, a figure came rushing over with a whoosh, bringing a saber down toward my hand.
Bang!
I could only yank my hand back. The saber struck the ground instead, splitting the earth open. At that moment, an old immortal with his hands behind his back drifted into the field and casually lifted the spear. His phoenix eyes gleamed with a cold light. He definitely wasn't at the Foundation Establishment realm—he was certainly an immortal above the Crystal realm.
The immortal who had missed with his saber didn't stop attacking. He pursued me with horizontal slashes and sweeping cuts. The gusts from his saber were close-range, but his blade qi was almost tangible. Anyone who entered its range would inevitably end up with flesh torn and skin split!
I drifted backward, but the immortal blocking the path soon made his appearance. A female immortal, bare-handed, quickly assumed a stance behind me. Her eyes were filled with murderous ferocity. Before I could drift over, her two white-jade hands were already throwing punches straight at me. The wind from her fists rolled on endlessly, wave after wave roaring past. Even before those waves of fist wind reached my back, they had already sent a chill down my spine.
Three Crystal realm immortals had intercepted me. Ordinarily, with strength like mine, I would naturally have been doomed.
But clearly, their ambush involved more than just the three of them. The market had been built at the bottom of a ravine, beneath a cliff. Seen from afar through the sea of trees, it looked like a scar across the forest. Outside the market entrance stretched boundless mountain woodland—a perfect place for hiding filth and harboring evil. While drifting away from the three immortals' attacks,