On Purple Jade Island, Second Island Master Hu Guang seemed to have lost his senses. Oppressed by an outsider Human Race cultivator, he had been forced to his knees without offering the slightest resistance.
Lionheart, who was rushing back at top speed, saw this scene from afar. His eyes immediately reddened as he gritted his teeth and roared, "How dare you!"
They could not afford any more deaths!
Leaving aside the several hundred Star Constellation cultivators killed earlier, at the Moon Jade Realm level alone, there had first been Junior Brother Hu and Red Elephant, followed by Yuan Che, Junior Brother Chai, Junior Brother Lang, and now Bao Youyou... In less than half a month, six Moon Jade Realm cultivators had died. If Hu Guang died too, that would make seven. By then, Purple Jade would have only him left at the Moon Jade Realm level!
No matter what, he could not allow Hu Guang to be killed, especially not before his very eyes.
As he roared, crimson light blazed around him and his blood and qi boiled. He had clearly activated a Secret Technique to increase his speed, intending to save Hu Guang before Lu Ye could strike.
Yet that seemingly short distance had become an uncrossable heavenly chasm...
Meanwhile, Hu Guang, kneeling before Lu Ye, felt the icy edge of the Crag Mountain Saber against him and suddenly regained a trace of clarity. But it was only a trace.
His Divine Sea was in turmoil and his soul was shattered. Even though his physical body was uninjured, he no longer had the strength to fight. Faintly sensing that his end was near, familiar faces of the departed involuntarily surfaced before his eyes.
How had it come to this?
When had it begun?
With great difficulty, he turned the