However, Lu Xialeng and Tan Shengge had chased and fought Li Shuangmu for less than half a minute when Tan Shengge suddenly let out a strange cry. The Pangu Stone Axe in his hand flew out of his grasp without warning.
This sudden turn of events instantly disrupted the rhythm of the three-way battle.
Li Shuangmu seized the opening and immediately swept the Chixiao Sword across. A white divine dragon and a red divine dragon flew from the blade, savagely lunging at Tan Shengge and Lu Xialeng.
Without the Pangu Axe, how could Tan Shengge possibly contend with Li Shuangmu? He cried out and darted aside, barely evading the attack.
Lu Xialeng, meanwhile, thrust her halberd forward, driving it straight into the red dragon's mouth. In truth, the two dragons had been hastily formed by Li Shuangmu, so their power was limited. With Lu Xialeng's strike disrupting it, the entire red dragon burst into flying flesh and blood.
But when the two looked toward where Li Shuangmu had been, he was nowhere to be seen. Needless to say, Li Shuangmu had gone after Yin Kuang.
"I'll chase him!" Lu Xialeng threw out those words and sped after Yin Kuang in the direction he had vanished.
Tan Shengge obediently remained suspended in the air, motionless, while turning to look in the direction the Pangu Stone Axe had flown. He could not understand why the Pangu Stone Axe had suddenly flown out of his hand.
The moment he looked, Tan Shengge cried out, "Manor Lord Dou, how did you...?"
The Pangu Stone Axe was now in the hand of someone who absolutely should not have been there. That person was Dou Tianli, the former number one figure of Eastern Victory and lord of Marquis Manor, whom Rosalind had exiled.
Dou Tianli flashed