"For fuck's sake!"
As Fifth Uncle cursed, the yellow sand around him went madly plastering itself against his body, packing tightly together until it seemed to congeal into a suit of armor over his skin.
The attacks that shot out like spears and arrows were all intercepted by Fifth Uncle with his hands and feet.
When the assaults struck his thick Sand Armor, they immediately slowed as though stones had fallen into mud. Before they could pierce the armor and harm what lay within, he forcefully deflected them away.
Tang Yuan stared at the scene in astonishment, his eyes lighting up. With his understanding of Body Refinement Techniques, he could clearly tell that Fifth Uncle's ability to form armor from sand was an exceptionally unusual defensive art.
Though Fifth Uncle possessed only Heaven Soul Realm First Breath strength, the defense he displayed was at least as strong as someone at Heaven Soul Realm Third Breath.
After Fifth Uncle shattered the three mysterious attacks, two of them burrowed into the sand at tremendous speed, leaving behind only two fist-sized pits.
Only one had been knocked unconscious by the sand protecting Fifth Uncle, lying sprawled atop the sand surface.
It was called unconscious because this attack was not an inanimate object—it was alive!
Jiang Ruoyun looked at the creature on the sand surface with a trace of alarm. "Is this... an immature Night Shadow Sand Lizard?"
Lu Feng's vigilant gaze was also examining the beast from before.
It resembled an oversized gecko, thirty to forty centimeters long, nearly the length of a human arm. Its limbs clung tightly to its body, making it streamlined like a pen shaft. Its head and mouth were unusually narrow and pointed, covered in extremely hard scales. From afar, it looked like the spearhead of a long