While men plotted against tigers, tigers plotted against men as well. Chu Jiaoling had faintly become the number one cultivator in the East Sea. Knowing that she had expended the most power this time, these three demons sought to seize the chance to eliminate their greatest enemy.
Master Tianfeng and the others were still too far away to offer any rescue. Yet Chu Jiaoling gave a silvery laugh, and the Heaven-Devouring Beast slipped back into the Heavenly Spirit Bag. At the same time, the attacks of the three demons came crashing down.
Just as Chu Jiaoling was about to be struck, those attacks inexplicably missed their mark. Her body flashed, and she broke free from the encirclement of the three demons.
A spatial divine ability! Yan Chihuo recognized it at a glance. His wind-attribute innate divine ability, Wind from an Empty Cave, also contained a spatial divine ability, though it was far inferior to Chu Jiaoling's. Still, the spatial divine ability Chu Jiaoling used belonged to the same kind as the tiny scrap of spatial ability Yan Chihuo had grasped through Wind from an Empty Cave.
Spatial divine abilities came in many varieties. Though they were closely connected, each was immensely profound and complex. Mastering even one required who knew how much effort, so virtually no one in the cultivation world studied more than two kinds of spatial divine abilities.
Thus, although the Sea Eagle Demon Emperor understood the Gate of Space and had attained considerable mastery over it, he could not make sense of Chu Jiaoling's spatial divine ability. By the same token, Chu Jiaoling could not see through the Sea Eagle Demon Emperor's Gate of Space.
Seeing this, Yan Chihuo suddenly seemed to understand something, as though a bolt of lightning had flashed through dense fog. Though he