The scene was, for a moment, extremely awkward.
Si Yao really was a little dumbfounded by this sudden sneak attack.
He looked at the bullet spinning wildly in place right in front of him, and for a moment, he couldn't quite react.
He'd been "watching" Su Xiao Li having the time of her life demolishing the Taotie Flagship, while his True Points steadily climbed. He'd been in a good mood, and then this sudden sniper shot had come along. It was like finding a fly in your food just as you were enjoying a meal—disgusting and... completely baffling.
He Xi didn't know what to say either. She could only look at Si Yao, then at the Taotie still locked in a fierce fight with the Xiong Bing Lian Members below, with an expression that seemed to say, "What a strange world."
Lena, watching the tense standoff from a distant rooftop, felt like her awkwardness was about to kill her. Almost without thinking, she used Dark Communication to call in Si Yao's direction. "Hey! You... you okay?"
As soon as she spoke, Si Yao, who'd been lounging in his chair, slowly stood up.
With his movement, the God-Slaying Bullet hanging in midair was crushed by an invisible force. With a sharp crack, it shattered from tip to tail, disintegrating into the finest metallic powder and vanishing into the air.
The next second, a crimson flash streaked by!
A long spear, archaic and fearsome in design, dark red from end to end, with an ominous, blood-red gleam at its tip—the Blood Spear—silently coalesced in his hand.
As the Blood Spear appeared, a terrifying Gravity Field, so oppressive it seemed space itself could barely withstand it, abruptly spread out from the spear tip!
The air groaned under the strain, and the light visibly