The Water Demon Lord was decisive. Once he sensed something was wrong, he did not hesitate. His face darkened, and he headed straight for the door of the Meditation Chamber.
But who could have known?
Just as he was about to step through the door, a sudden chill came over him for no apparent reason.
It was as if he had fallen into an ice cavern ten thousand years old.
A piercing cold shot up from the soles of his feet and raced along his spine to his head.
Deep inside him, a voice seemed to roar.
Danger! Run...
At that moment, every pore on the Water Demon Lord's body seemed to swell into goosebumps, and every hair stood on end.
He hurriedly pulled back his foot and flung himself backward.
At that very instant,
A flash of Blade Light came whistling out of the ground beneath his feet.
The Blade Light's edge lit up the entire Meditation Chamber, turning the dim room bright as day.
Right then,
The Water Demon Lord had yet to land. In the Blade Light's glare, his old face was plainly visible, twisted with shock and deep fury at this sudden turn.
Only then
did he understand.
His sudden unease had not meant something was amiss elsewhere. Someone had sneaked into his Meditation Chamber and was trying to kill him.
And their methods were bizarre.
A blade had struck from underground.
Damn it, his Meditation Chamber was already dozens of meters below ground. How could someone still send a blade up from beneath it? Just how bizarre was that?
Amid his fury and alarm, the first thing that sprang to mind was the Wind and Rain Forest!
The Wind and Rain Forest was unquestionably Great Yan's foremost assassin organization. It had assassins of every kind,