In an instant.
A trace of barely perceptible fear crept into the eyes of the Inner Elder of Xuantian Tower, who had been so confident he could easily take down the young man in white.
He stood frozen in place, too stunned even to cover the wound that kept seeping crimson blood.
Yet his eyes darted about like those of a drowning man, desperately searching for anything that might save his life.
Even as brilliant spiritual light bloomed in the young man's palm and dense cracks spread across the elder's body, he did not dare stop moving.
"Run!"
Never had he felt death closing in on him so clearly. The Inner Elder of Xuantian Tower's defenses crumbled, and every shred of his will to fight vanished.
But before he could act, a young figure in white appeared in his path.
The young man wore a gentle smile, as soothing as a spring breeze.
Yet his words sent a chill through the Inner Elder of Xuantian Tower's heart.
"All right. I've played with you long enough. Time to be on your way!"
"If that fellow escapes to the North Sea Dragon Palace and its First Princess of the North Sea Dragon Palace, whose strength I don't know, comes forward to protect him, wiping you all out in one sweep really would become troublesome!"
The young man's casual words sounded like a death sentence to the Inner Elder of Xuantian Tower.
"Senior, I know I was wrong. Please spare—"
Crack!
Before he could finish pleading, the crisp snap of a breaking neck rang out.
To outsiders, this Inner Elder of Xuantian Tower held an exalted position. He would not have flinched even before a Tribulation Transcendence pseudo-immortal who had just survived a heavenly tribulation.
Yet he died at Luo Yi's hands without