Xiao Ling had been planning to hand this old thing over to Qing Lin for subjugation. A complete Dou Saint was far more useful than a cripple in a severely weakened state, so naturally he could not let him ruin himself like this.
As thoughts raced through his mind, Xiao Ling lazily raised a hand and made a grasping motion in the air.
"Buzz—"
The surrounding air abruptly froze. An invisible wave of Space Power swept outward like a tide, and with the First Elder at its center, the world within several yards seemed to be clenched tight by an unseen giant hand.
The First Elder, who had been frantically activating his forbidden technique and swelling to his limit, suddenly froze in place. The Dou Qi surging through his body was like a beast strangled by the throat, coming to an abrupt stop. Even the venomous snake patterns writhing beneath his skin were frozen in that instant.
"Space Power?!" The First Elder's pupils constricted sharply, and for the first time, utter terror flooded his eyes.
Xiao Ling remained expressionless. His lips parted, and four indifferent words resounded through heaven and earth:
"Space Strangulation."
The instant his words fell, the space around the First Elder violently twisted! Visible cracks spread like a spiderweb, while sharp Space Fragments howled like invisible blades as they sliced toward every part of his body.
"Ah—!!!"
An incomparably shrill scream suddenly exploded. The First Elder's skin was torn apart in an instant, blood spraying out like a fountain. Those dense spatial spikes penetrated everywhere, burrowing through his pores and wildly shredding his meridians and bones.
His swollen body shriveled at a visible rate. The chaotic Dou Qi within him was churned into a tangled mess by Space Power, and even his Life-Bound Monster Core, on the