"Of course not. I'm just telling the truth... Hm? Who's there?" As Jiu Ming spoke, he suddenly looked behind a massive boulder. The moment he opened his mouth, Esdeath made her move. The boulder was blasted into fragments, exposing the figure hiding behind it.
A man in a hooded outfit stood there, most of his face concealed. One look at the arrogant grin he revealed was enough to tell that he was no good. Jiu Ming could see it, and Esdeath certainly could too. She could not be bothered wasting words on him. She had been suppressing the urge to cut someone down for quite a while now, and with an irrelevant outsider appearing, he immediately became her outlet.
A square formation of Ice Spikes appeared in the sky, every single one aimed at the man. The arrogant grin vanished from his face at once. Fuck, they were about to start fighting without even exchanging a word!? Damn it, that was way too underhanded!
Without hesitation, he activated the trump card he had prepared while hiding. "Hah! Dimensional Formation: Shangri-La!"
"Huh?" Jiu Ming stared in surprise at the pattern that abruptly emerged on the ground, resembling a bagua diagram. A curtain of light enveloped its edges. Jiu Ming could clearly sense that it would be best not to touch that light curtain unless necessary. It seemed to isolate the surrounding space to a certain degree. If it fully activated while part of someone's body remained outside the curtain, that part might be severed by the shifting space! In an instant, the light curtain blazed to its brightest. Jiu Ming merely shrugged. This guy was cautious. If he rushed out now, the nearly activated light curtain might become unstable as it divided space. In that case, so be it.
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