Just as Lu Feng's killing intent rose and he prepared to control the array to grind the Cold Light Sect group to death,
A bolt of lightning suddenly struck down.
Bang—
Lu Feng reacted swiftly. With a slight lift of his finger, several flying swords before him flashed into the sky, meeting the lightning head-on.
At the moment of collision, the formation formed by the flying swords instantly collapsed, and the swords were blasted away.
Every sword was instantly scorched red by the lightning's searing heat. Yet due to the toughness of their material, though they had been blasted more than a hundred yards away, they suffered little damage. Even the array patterns engraved upon them had not dispersed much.
Though he had lost several flying swords, Lu Feng had successfully diverted the descending lightning. With a flash, he had already left his original position.
He knew that such an aggressively destructive bolt appearing out of thin air could never have been natural. It had been man-made.
Sure enough, at the instant he moved aside, another bolt of lightning struck the ground beneath him, blasting out a crater and leaving the surrounding earth charred black.
Lu Feng raised his eyes. Lightning flickered incessantly amid the murky clouds overhead, while faint honeycomb-like azure lightning barriers appeared below them, covering the sky like vast nets of thunder.
His expression changed drastically.
From those thunder nets, he sensed the fluctuations of an array formation. He recognized them as the Sky Dome Thunder Barrier formation of the Herding Cloud Sect's Godly Thunder Overturning Sea Array, specifically used to prevent enemies from escaping through the air.
It seemed the Cold Light Sect was not the only force stationed here.
A Herding Cloud Sect team had also been lying in wait in secret, setting up an