"This aura... it feels so familiar..."
Xu Xiao, hovering in midair, narrowed her eyes, a look of shock and suspicion appearing on her face.
Like everyone else on the deck, she could feel Shi Bashi's steadily rising aura and pressure.
But as one of God's Chosen Ones, she also caught a familiar trace within it that no one else could sense.
It was the aura of her own kind!
"I smelled something similar on Octopus Lady and Li Luo... Shi Bashi, he—he's one of God's Chosen Ones!?"
The instant the thought surfaced, Xu Xiao's pupils shrank to pinpoints!
Under her gaze, a violent blast of air suddenly erupted from Shi Bashi, knocking Nikita, who had transformed into a brown bear, onto the ground.
The Lin Family members watching from the deck were sent staggering in every direction as well, unable to keep their footing!
The situation reversed in an instant!
Shi Bashi wiped his face. By the time he lowered his hand, the aggrieved look he had worn earlier had long vanished.
The innate confusion and helplessness in his eyes were gone as well.
In their place was a chilling gloom and venomous resentment.
He said nothing.
He merely shifted his gaze away from the fallen Nikita, swept his eyes coldly over the surroundings, and finally looked toward Xu Xiao, who was still floating in midair.
A silent declaration of war!
The moment Shi Bashi's gaze fell on her, Xu Xiao felt the suffocating pressure of a God's Chosen One!
She had no choice but to respond, releasing her own aura to resist him.
An invisible clash began!
As the promoted form of God's Favored, God's Chosen Ones stood far above ordinary Players in both overall strength and rank. Naturally, they had many different ways of fighting.
Xu Xiao could