Chapter 977: Racing Against Time
He wasn't asking Lou Jia and Gao Xiaoyan for their opinions. As soon as he finished speaking, the distance between Xu Huo and the two of them rapidly widened. He and the cannon barrel were lifted by a spiraling staircase, while Gao Xiaoyan and Lou Jia descended along another.
Lou Jia lived up to his status as an A-class player. Almost as soon as the distance between them began to grow, an iron chain appeared beneath his feet. The item seemed capable of breaking through spatial barriers formed inside the Spiritual World. It connected him directly to the rising staircase, and he crossed the seemingly vast distance in a single step. With a turn of his left hand, a butterfly-thin knife slashed toward Xu Huo's throat!
"Shhk!" The knife opened Xu Huo's neck, spraying blood all over Lou Jia's face!
Caught off guard, Lou Jia reflexively stepped back as blood splashed across his face. But the hand he'd raised to wipe it stopped halfway. He twisted his wrist, and a double-edged long blade flew out of thin air and began circling him on its own. At the same time, his shoes shifted. "Step by Step!"
"Xu Huo," who was already close by, was dragged into the blade's path by an irresistible force. But the blade didn't sever his neck as Lou Jia had hoped. It sliced through a phantom instead. When the phantom vanished, six more blood-spurting "Xu Huos" appeared around them.
Before Lou Jia could figure out which one was real, the staircase beneath his feet suddenly shuddered, accompanied by a weakened hum!
Lou Jia's gaze darkened. A black, cone-shaped object appeared in his hands, large enough to require both of them to support it. Its meter-long metal tip slammed into the ground. "Earthquake!"