Whooo!
The Nine-Headed Worm's long howl rang out with piercing intensity through the deep night. Its nine single eyes whirled as they swept in every direction, searching with all their might for that strange fluctuation of power.
The Nine-Headed Worm had sensed the abnormal fluctuations in the surrounding power, but it had only sensed them. It could not pinpoint their exact location.
It had to be said that there was good reason those terrifying beings of the ancient era had chosen the Nine-Headed Worm as a Spirit Beast to guard their homes.
Possessing nine types of elemental power, it was exceptionally sensitive to changes in the surrounding energies.
Ye Zhen, who was treating the injuries to his divine soul, abruptly opened his eyes upon hearing the Nine-Headed Worm's howl.
At almost the same instant, the space beside Ye Zhen suddenly rippled, and an incomparably domineering aura abruptly fell straight out of the void.
A World King Realm expert!
Even as Ye Zhen cried out in alarm, a palm print blazing with sharp golden light struck like lightning toward his chest and abdomen.
Everything changed far too quickly. Even lightning and flint could not describe the speed of it.
From the Nine-Headed Worm's warning howl, to Ye Zhen's alertness, to the World King Realm assassin emerging from the void, it had all happened almost at precisely the same moment.
Too fast. Everything had been too fast.
Especially since Ye Zhen had been treating his divine soul injuries and circulating his Soul Power at full force, leaving him no time to react at all.
Yet the survival instincts he had tempered over so many years made him instinctively raise his body by a little over an inch in that lightning-flash instant.
There had only been enough time for Ye Zhen to lift