The sky had dimmed, and the sun was gradually sinking.
Within the Hooking Abyss Sword Sect's headquarters, explosions, gunshots, and shouts rang out everywhere.
The Martial Dao Domains of several Grandmasters unfolded. Light shot into the sky, illuminating the entire headquarters in patches of white, cyan, and blue.
Suddenly, a point of red light appeared in this region of crisscrossing radiance. Then, like a volcanic eruption, it exploded! Blinding red light dyed half the sky above the Hooking Abyss Sword Sect's headquarters crimson.
"Shi Caiming!"
The sudden development shattered the balance on the battlefield.
Just as Li Fei and the others had never imagined that Bai Chen could "rise from the dead," Bai Chen had likewise never imagined that Shi Caiming would appear here and attack him.
No one knew Shi Caiming's injuries better than Bai Chen.
Even if a Martial Dao Master with healing mystical powers intervened, Shi Caiming would have needed at least several months of recuperation before he could fight again.
That was because his desperate attack had injured his life origin!
If he had not burned up everything, Shi Caiming could never have held out for so long in Bai Chen's Azure Lotus World.
An injury like this could not be directly healed by healing mystical powers.
Moreover, Shi Caiming had already injured his life origin when he failed to break through. Now that injury had been compounded, making recovery even more difficult.
Yet Shi Caiming had suddenly appeared and attacked Bai Chen! He had chosen the timing perfectly—just when Li Fei had restrained more and more of Bai Chen's strength, and the "Myriad Worlds" sword art had reached a crucial juncture.
In that instant, Bai Chen found it difficult to shift his force and mystical powers, leaving him unable to immediately turn from offense to