A strange smile tugged at the corner of Boss Ying's mouth. Then his body turned into a blur, and with a whoosh, he vanished from the spot.
In the blink of an eye, he had completed a teleport!
The next second, Boss Ying's afterimage appeared behind Dong Lan. He slapped his palm forward, and a huge shadow of a hand instantly expanded until it was even larger than an umbrella, bearing down on Dong Lan's head.
The enormous hand shadow tried to engulf Dong Lan, but the moment it came within a foot of her body, the orb of light around her flared with another fierce halo.
Its purifying power was incredibly swift. Like a vacuum cleaner, it wiped away the huge hand shadow in the space of a breath.
Dong Lan's combat experience was lacking. Despite having such an astonishing defense, she was still constrained by her limited fighting skills.
By the time she reacted and swung her sword back at him, Boss Ying had already vanished with another whoosh.
The battle had reached something of a stalemate.
Dong Lan's Holy Light Sphere seemed to be a natural counter to dark, evil beings like the Year Eater. No matter what kind of attack it used, it couldn't break through her defenses once it got close.
And Dong Lan lacked the combat experience to find a better way to deal with the Year Eater's instantaneous movement.
After a few exchanges, the Year Eater had clearly noticed this.
The anger Dong Lan had stirred up in it gradually subsided.
Its eyes glinted with cunning as it suddenly shot Jiang Yue a sidelong glance.
The Year Eater's primary mission on this trip was to kill Jiang Yue, its greatest threat.
Although its attack had just stripped Jiang Yue of eighty years of