The strands of hair were thin and tiny, and no one noticed them. Nearly ten thousand of the hundreds of thousands present were entangled in them and lost their lives in an instant, turning into dried corpses. They were all ordinary people, not even cultivators, and had no chance of resisting the Judge's absorption of their life force.
Lu Yin's eyes blazed with fury. "You dare!"
The Judge was trapped beneath the ice. Through his strands of hair, he absorbed the life force of nearly ten thousand people into his body. Seeing Lu Yin's palm strike toward him, he raised a hand to meet it. With a thunderous boom, the Judge was driven back into the ice by Lu Yin's palm. The ice shattered, but Lu Yin didn't come away unscathed either. He staggered back several steps. The force of his thirtyfold, hundred-times Wave Palm had actually rebounded against him, leaving his right arm numb and powerless.
Looking up, Lu Yin was shocked. The Judge, half-buried in the ice, was now covered in purple-red battle aura, marked with red stripes. This was Nine-Pattern Battle Qi.
The Judge had absorbed the life force of ten thousand people and forced his battle aura up to Nine-Pattern Battle Qi.
Lu Yin's scalp went numb. The Judge gave him a cold smile, then flickered out of sight. When he reappeared, he was right in front of Lu Yin, his strands of hair shooting out. The Judge's Nine-Pattern Battle Qi had stunned Lu Yin. He activated the Universe Secret, redirecting the strands' attack, but the Judge had already been caught off guard once. How could he not have prepared for it? Countless strands of hair marked with Nine-Pattern Battle Qi filled the air and stabbed toward Lu Yin.
Lu Yin was struck by countless strands