"What are you?"
No wonder the Black Dragon King was confused.
At that moment, because of the energy vacuum, Xixi Li had dispelled the power of her true body to conserve energy.
She had been on this peninsula for years, and the most interesting thing the Black Dragon King had discovered was that any human strong enough to catch its attention would envelop themselves in a layer of energy armor during battle, gaining a tremendous boost in power for a short time.
Before putting on that energy armor, those humans all looked alike to it: weak and helpless.
The armor took many different forms.
By chance, a few years ago, it had even seen someone wearing the guise of a giant dragon. Enraged after its initial shock, it had torn apart the intruder who had entered the Pangula Highlands on the spot.
Xixi Li gave the Black Dragon King no reply.
After dispelling the Black Dragon King's shadow-claw strike, she wore an expression of unprecedented focus. Her eyes stayed fixed on the dark sky behind the dragon, wary of an attack that could come at any moment.
The crushing sense of danger, as if she were sitting on pins and needles, drove her to focus more intensely than ever.
"Nothing."
The attack Xixi Li had been waiting for never came—or, at least, it wasn't aimed at her.
The strands of light struck twice in succession. The first targeted the Sky Fortress behind her. After piercing its thick energy shield, the mysterious thread of light failed to penetrate the fortress. The second targeted the Shenwu Giant Turtle, which was rampaging through the bizarre war machines made of grotesque creatures more than ten kilometers away. Xixi Li could just make out the deafening, pained roar coming from that direction.
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