"How is this possible? What kind of monster are you? How can you break free of my secret art so easily..."
Hearing the voice behind her, Meng Ru Yan's expression shifted. She immediately realized she had been tricked.
The young man's earlier daze had been nothing but an act.
She had used a secret eye technique, reinforced by a life-saving Magic Array, yet she hadn't managed to affect him in the slightest.
Otherwise, he could never have reacted so quickly!
It was easy to tell from the voice behind her that the young man had already broken free during the brief moment when she had been distracted.
But she had only been distracted for an instant—not even one ten-thousandth of a breath.
If he had been ensnared by her eye technique, he shouldn't have been able to react at all.
Yet not only had he reacted, he had used that tiny fraction of an instant to do so much. That alone told her plenty.
After all, for martial artists at their level, even the slightest lapse in concentration could affect the entire course of a battle.
From the moment the young man's voice came from behind her, it was already too late for her to respond to his attack.
Boom!
A great halberd wreathed in black energy appeared without a sound, aiming to pierce the black silk ribbons worn by the Demon Clan Saintess and strike a patch of snow-white skin beneath.
But just as the halberd's radiance was about to press farther, a dim, shadowy Light Barrier surfaced over the Demon Clan Saintess's body.
"Clang!"
The great halberd, which had always been able to pierce anything and easily punch through the bodies of Void Refinement Pinnacle demons, was suddenly stymied by the Light Barrier. For a brief moment, the