Feng Qingyuan naturally knew that the effect of this ruse could only be considered better than nothing, but he had no other choice.
His condition was terrible now. If he did not seize the treasures immediately, he would have even less of a chance once the others arrived.
Thus, Feng Qingyuan steeled himself and waved one hand, summoning a Golden Armor Puppet. He drove it to leap up, intending to skim over the blue water pool.
When the puppet was halfway through the air, both its arms shot out like lightning, grabbing for the blue flute and the Blue Shield.
But before it could succeed, a violent ripple suddenly spread across the blue water pool, which had been as smooth as a mirror.
A watery blue figure burst out and sent the Golden Armor Puppet flying, smashing it heavily into a gigantic watery blue pillar.
Before it could hit the ground, a monstrous blue foot with webbed toes slammed into its chest with a boom, directly shattering the puppet's breastplate and crushing the core inside it to pieces.
The blue water pool was incomparably clear. Everyone had been able to see straight through it earlier, yet none of them had discovered that a monster was lurking within. Naturally, they were all shocked.
As the monster's next target, Feng Qingyuan was even more terrified. He rapidly retreated while producing a bright red oil-paper umbrella, causing it to spin ceaselessly before him.
Only after doing so did Feng Qingyuan have the leisure to examine the monster, hoping to identify its origins and formulate a more suitable response.
It was a fish-headed, human-bodied monster with crystalline scales covering its entire body. Its aura exceeded the Taiyi Realm, though it was unstable. Even more scalp-numbing was the fact that waves of intense Time Law