In an instant!
A foreboding premonition, like an icy venomous serpent, coiled around Half-Venerable Wuyang's heart.
Countless possibilities of catastrophic upheaval flashed through his mind like lightning.
Though his thoughts raced, the combat instincts tempered through countless trials of blood and fire kept his movements free of even the slightest hesitation or delay. They remained vicious and fierce, forcing the Sea Lizard Clan Half-Venerable into one perilous situation after another.
Yet he still split off a sliver of his focus and swiftly sent it into his sleeve, touching the communication Jade Talisman that was emitting a soft glow.
In that instant, the brief but thunderbolt-like urgent message contained within the Jade Talisman entered his mind without reservation:
[Urgent report from the Life Stone Hall: Ancestor's natal turtle stone... has shattered!]
"Impossible!!"
Half-Venerable Wuyang's pupils abruptly shrank to pinpoints. It felt as though an invisible giant hand had clutched his heart viciously, stopping even his breath.
"Ancestor... Ancestor's divine abilities were unrivaled. How could he have been defeated and perished?
This is absolutely impossible!"
He nearly cried out in shock, but a millennium of composure and the iron-blooded will forged on the battlefield forced him to crush that terror deep in his throat.
It only emerged as a low, disbelieving hiss, nearly inaudible amid the raging storm of energy.
The Sea Lizard Clan Half-Venerable, who had been suppressed for so long and was filled with pent-up frustration, keenly caught the instant of hesitation and mental turbulence from that old monster Wuyang.
Though he did not know the exact reason, his opponent actually dared to let his mind wander in the midst of a life-and-death struggle. This was undoubtedly an enormous affront!
"How dare you!
Old monster Wuyang, how dare you look down on me like this!
You are simply courting death!"