The Giant Man shot Xu Yi and the others a startled glance, then snarled, "Nobody runs. If anyone dares, I'll capture you and torture you to death!"
With that, he thrust out a palm. A gigantic palm of light swept toward them.
Xu Yi struck back with a palm of light, smashing the gigantic one to pieces.
The Giant Man cried out, "Ah!" but still hurled his massive body into the water without hesitation.
A Li leaped in after him. Before long, the Giant Man came springing back onto shore, curled up like a giant shrimp. He screamed in agony and rolled around on the ground.
A huge hole had been torn in his abdomen, blood gushing out.
Xu Yi drew over his storage ring. There wasn't a single essence pill inside, and he felt bitterly disappointed.
As expected, rogue cultivators were all dirt-poor. There was nothing worth robbing them for.
"All right, make him stop wailing. He's giving me the creeps."
At Xu Yi's command, A Li withdrew his spell.
Just then, the Long-bearded Hunter leaped out of the water and respectfully offered the Ascension Token to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi took it and immediately dripped a drop of blood onto it. The pillar of light reaching into the sky vanished at once, leaving only a halo hovering over the Ascension Token. It was still quite eye-catching, visible from far away.
But compared to the pillar of light from before, it was now much more subdued.
Earlier, when the Long-bearded Hunter had held the Ascension Token and leaped into the water, the pillar of light had still shot out of the water and straight into the sky.
At that moment, the Red-faced Hunter and the Long-faced Hunter also emerged from the woods.
The Long-faced Hunter said, "We took it