The light spread from the spot where the blood drop landed, weaving into a complex pattern like an ancient formation.
Before Xu Yanli could react, the ground beneath his feet suddenly vanished. He plummeted straight down.
"Your Highness!"
Lezheng Ling's cry rang out overhead, growing more distant by the second.
Xu Yanli kept falling as the light around him grew brighter and brighter, until he couldn't open his eyes.
He just managed to hear one last muffled thud. Then he couldn't hear anything at all.
The light faded.
The place in the valley that had been packed with people just moments ago now lay empty. Only the bloodstains left on the ground proved that anyone had ever been there.
Lezheng Ling cut down the enemy beside him and rushed to the spot where Xu Yanli had vanished. The ground was perfectly intact, without so much as a crack.
Yet His Highness had simply disappeared into thin air.
"Your Highness!"
His shout echoed through the valley. No one answered. Only a few deep beast roars came from the depths of the forest, all the more chilling in the silence.
Xu Yanli frowned at the scene before him, which looked like a vast forest.
What the hell was this place?
What exactly had that person been after? His strength, his rules? And why had they resonated with his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul?
Could that person have attacked him for the sake of his Martial Soul?
Xu Yanli gently rubbed his forehead, a faintly helpless look crossing his face.
After a moment of silence, Xu Yanli slowly released his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul.
If he had come here because of this Martial Soul, and the other person hadn't killed him after he arrived, then they must have