Tang Hao gripped his massive hammer, his voice booming like a great bell. "Kid! I'll warn you one last time! Hand over the Shapeshifting Soul Beast!"
"Otherwise, today will be your day of death!"
Zhao Linchuan remained utterly unfazed. With a turn of his wrist, the Crimson Firmament Judgment Sword drew a perfect crimson wheel of light before him.
The wheel spun and expanded at high speed, erupting with an even more blinding, dazzling radiance than before!
"Ah! My eyes!" Caught off guard, the Rat Brothers felt as though their eyes had been seared by red-hot irons. The pain was unbearable, and they hurriedly raised their enormous Clear Sky True Bodies before themselves, squeezing their eyes shut.
"Despicable! Shameless! Is this all you know how to use—such lowly tricks?!" Tang Hao roared furiously.
"Oh? You want a frontal fight?" Zhao Linchuan's voice carried a hint of amusement. "Fine. I'll indulge you."
He lowered his wrist, held the long sword across his body, and assumed a stance for a direct confrontation.
Sensing that the blinding light seemed to have weakened, the Rat Brothers rejoiced inwardly, thinking their opponent had finally decided to meet them head-on.
Yet, just as they forced open their stinging, tear-filled eyes and prepared to raise their giant hammers—
Zhao Linchuan's figure appeared at their side as though he had Teleported, and somehow, he was holding a large bag of snow-white powder!
"Watch closely—I'm making my move!"
A huge cloud of quicklime powder, like white smoke, was flung straight into the Rat Brothers' faces!
"Not good!" The two men paled in shock. They tried to close their eyes, but they were already half a beat too late.
A large amount of lime powder landed precisely in their wet, tear-filled eyes!
Worse still, they had long been drenched in