Si Huo panicked, but he did not dare move.
He stood obediently where he was, waiting for the Water-Fire Devil Lord to emerge from the hidden door.
He thought it over.
Entering this Meditation Chamber without permission was understandable, after all. He would be punished, but not too severely. At the very least, it was far better than the Fire Devil Lord actually being killed.
Yet as the Hidden Door slowly rose and stopped,
a figure appeared in the Hidden Door and stepped out. Si Huo felt as though lightning had struck him. He froze.
"Y-you... who the hell are you?"
"What are you doing here?"
"You've got some nerve barging into the chief's Meditation Chamber in my Water-Fire Devil Stronghold! Do you have a death wish?"
The stranger before him was a handsome young man. Furious, Si Huo unleashed the full force of his nearly two hundred True Qi apertures.
He lunged like a fierce tiger, his hands curled into claws.
He went straight for the young man, intending to capture him.
But to his surprise,
the young man merely smiled. Standing perfectly still, he flicked a hand as though brushing away a speck of dust, his movement light and effortless, elegant and unhurried.
Just like that, he swept aside Si Huo's furious, full-force attack.
A powerful, invisible force slammed into Si Huo.
Si Huo's body flew backward.
He sailed over ten meters before crashing into the chamber wall and sliding down it.
Pfft!
Si Huo spat out a mouthful of blood when he landed, his face filled with horror.
This guy was actually an expert?
So young, yet so far above me?
How was that possible?
Who on earth was he?
*And where was the Water-Fire Devil Lord? How could he let a stranger come and go in