With a powerful enemy ahead, pursuers behind, and even the attack button banned, Jiang Mian did not dare make any rash moves.
She had no idea how strong the man ahead was or whether he could attack normally. All she could do was spread out her senses and watch the two of them like a hawk.
"Grr—"
After a brief standoff, the centaur [Asura] behind her suddenly let out a muffled growl and voluntarily withdrew [Stay My Spear and Halberd].
Jiang Mian immediately sensed trouble. She hastily activated the power of [Formless] and slipped into the void.
Yet at the very instant she made her spatial jump, the foreign man reached out and grabbed—
The next second, Jiang Mian was tightly bound by a force of Spatial Power and dragged back bodily.
Just as she was about to be seized in the man's palm, Jiang Mian decisively transformed into her Golden Crow form, coating her body in Annihilation Wind.
Her body spun at high speed like a drill, rapidly boring open a path before turning into a streak of black light and fleeing into the distance.
The man looked at the cut on his palm and visibly froze, seemingly never expecting a Seventh-tier being to break through his blockade and even injure him.
"Heh heh, what an interesting little thing..."
He murmured softly, and an incomparably vast surge of Shadow Power abruptly erupted from his body.
Then, the man slowly took a step forward and appeared in Jiang Mian's path in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, the entire tunnel of flesh and blood began to writhe uneasily.
The tunnel was sealed, and space was locked down. Ahead, behind, left, and right—all had become impassable dead ends.
Jiang Mian returned to human form, her expression turning exceedingly