The ship rocked. Mila looked up. Someone was on the roof.
With a crash, the ship split apart, and a figure appeared out of nowhere, pressing down with a palm strike from above and aiming straight for Mila.
Mila didn't panic. After decades of cultivation, she had long grown used to ambushes. She had even fought for her life against the Eternal Clan, and had faced death's door more times than she could count.
The attacker's palm technique shifted unpredictably, yet carried the crushing pressure of an immovable mountain. It was unmistakably the Eight Hands of Stone Gate. Beneath Mila's feet, a red lotus blossomed, eerie and beautiful. Wisps of red rose along its petals to counter the Eight Hands of Stone Gate. It was an ancestral-level battle technique, and the attacker's cultivation was on par with Mila's. With just the second hand, he shattered the red lotus.
But Mila took the opportunity to dodge. A red longbow appeared in her hand, and she loosed an arrow wrapped in the power of the red lotus. This was the Red Lotus Demon Bow.
The attacker exclaimed in surprise, "Not bad!" As he spoke, he flung a piece of broken wood from his Void Ring. It not only smashed the arrow, but also hurtled toward Mila, bringing her an unprecedented sense of danger.
This was an Illusory God, wrapped in Illusory God Power three times greater than his own. Given that his cultivation had reached the Hunting Realm, even though he had only cultivated at the Illusory God Academy for a little over a year, he had still managed to cultivate his Illusory God Power to nearly the Hunting Realm level. That was three times the power of someone at the Hunting Realm. Mila couldn't withstand it.
Mila was shaken. Where had