This was the natural outcome after a failed challenge.
Under such circumstances, unless Ye Tian willingly spared Si Wenhan, killing Si Wenhan would also have been perfectly justified, beyond reproach.
But at this moment, Si Wenhan actually called for his master to save him. That was truly an open and blatant violation of the rules.
Especially since he had been the one to issue the challenge. Breaking the rules again would make him even more despised.
Yet Si Wenhan did exactly that.
What shocked everyone present even more was that, following Si Wenhan's roar, a thunderclap suddenly boomed from high above!
The skies were clear for ten thousand miles. Why was there thunder?
The next instant, the sky abruptly darkened.
A dazzling, magnificent bolt of lightning blotted out the sun's radiance for an instant. As though it had torn through space, it twisted and coiled as it struck down at Ye Tian's head!
"Ye Tian, watch out!" Tao Ze's expression changed drastically as he saw this, and he shouted from afar.
But faced with this sudden turn of events, Ye Tian did not panic. The hand seal in his grasp changed the instant the lightning appeared.
The blades of energy that had gathered around him, originally prepared to kill Si Wenhan, instantly expanded and connected together, forming a translucent barrier before him.
At the same time, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth continued rushing in at tremendous speed, reinforcing and thickening the barrier layer by layer.
The next moment, the lightning descending from the heavens crashed heavily onto the barrier.
"Buzz!"
The lightning flickered with suffocating intensity.
The light upon the barrier flashed and dimmed violently.
After holding out for three breaths, the barrier Ye Tian had created finally could no longer endure and exploded with a thunderous bang!