Dying to Save Face
As soon as Sikong Jiandao thought of this, he casually extended a finger and traced a circle in front of him. A khaki-colored halo instantly formed into a ring, directly blocking the several Water-Hidden Spikes.
Buzz, buzz, buzz...
The several spikes pierced the khaki-colored ring in the space between one breath and the next.
Damn it! The tremendous demonic power surging from those Water-Hidden Spikes, along with the inexplicable tremors, nearly shook his primordial spirit apart. Sikong Jiandao almost coughed up blood from sheer frustration.
However, as a fourth-grade Pill King of the Jade Purity Immortal Palace, Sikong Jiandao had received no shortage of life-saving methods from his seniors at the palace gates. If he wanted to evade these Water-Hidden Spikes, he could certainly do so.
But he had made such a dashing entrance—how could he retreat in such a sorry state? Even Lu Xiaotian, an unknown outsider and a body cultivator in the early Composite stage, could handle them as lightly as lifting a finger. He was a mid-Composite cultivator and a fourth-grade Pill King, famous throughout the Jade Purity Immortal Palace for years. How could he lose to an unknown whose strength was inferior to his?
He had to withstand the Water-Hidden Demon Gallbladder's attack, and he had to do so with exceptional grace. Otherwise, he would have lost to an outsider—especially in front of his junior sister, Shan Bing.
The power of these Water-Hidden Spikes was truly extraordinary, though. Caught off guard, it was nothing short of wishful thinking to receive them easily.
"Sengtu Silk Armor!" Sikong Jiandao's divine sense stirred, and beneath his clothes, a brownish-yellow battle armor appeared and disappeared in a blur. The Sengtu Silk Armor was covered in mysterious talismanic patterns. It was no ordinary treasure but a precious