Liu Cang was utterly humiliated. Ever since he had risen to become Vice Sect Master of the Heaven Nether Sect, he had been greeted everywhere with reverence, flattery, and even fear. When had he ever been reduced to such a miserable state, fleeing for his life like a stray dog?
This crushing disgrace had seared itself into his soul, filling him with bone-deep hatred for the golden giant. Yet just as venomous thoughts consumed Liu Cang and he desperately drove his Dou Qi to widen the distance, something suddenly changed!
The dappled sunlight filtering through the sparse canopy abruptly dimmed without warning, as though an enormous shadow had swept over it.
Then dazzling golden light and violent arcs of silver lightning flashed into the corner of his vision, diagonally ahead of his escape route, seemingly out of nowhere!
A sense of mortal danger made Liu Cang's scalp prickle and threatened to freeze his very soul, washing over him like ice water from head to toe!
His heart pounded wildly. Almost on instinct, he jerked his head up and looked ahead to one side.
The mountain-sized golden giant had somehow crossed that enormous distance like a ghost and appeared just off the path ahead of him. With his head slightly lowered, he gazed down at Liu Cang through cold golden eyes! It was the look of a hunter watching prey struggle on the brink of death.
"His... how can he be so fast?! This is impossible!"
Seeing the golden giant appear ahead of his escape route as though by Instantaneous Movement, Liu Cang was overwhelmed by a sense of utter, absurd disbelief.
With such an enormous body, his movements should have been relatively slow. Yet this speed... overturned everything Liu Cang knew!
That thought flashed through his mind like lightning. But