A Calamity from the Heavens

"This whole mess has cost me a perfectly good Boundary Token."

Xu Yi smiled bitterly to himself.

Just then, Xu Yi's mind jolted. He plunged into the spring beside him and sank straight to the bottom. The water was crystal clear and about three zhang deep—plenty to hide in, he reckoned.

Who would have thought that the moment he reached the bottom, he would hear a furious shout: "Die, you rat!"

A surge of Killing Intent shot straight down into the spring. Fortunately, Xu Yi had been on full alert. Before the Killing Intent entered the water, he twisted his body aside, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow.

With a tremendous BOOM, the spring exploded. Xu Yi was swept ashore by the wild torrent, unable to resist.

He was about to strike when the man burst into wild laughter. "Hahaha! Heaven hasn't abandoned me!" He glared at Xu Yi and demanded, "Which hall under my command are you from? Are there any survivors in your hall?"

The speaker had a leopard's head and ringed eyes, and was a tall, burly middle-aged man. The fact that he had sensed Xu Yi entering the spring showed that his perception was formidable. And the attack he had just unleashed was a feat only an ancestor at the Soul Sensing Realm could manage.

At the man's question, Xu Yi finally noticed that the black outfit he wore was identical to the man's. Both had a tiny flying immortal crane embroidered over the chest, no bigger than a little finger.

"He must have mistaken me for one of his sect's disciples. That's right—the unlucky fellow I crushed earlier had plenty of injuries. This burly, leopard-headed man is clearly wounded too, and he looks panicked. He's probably fleeing."

Xu Yi read the man's expression and understood at