The old man was at Great Sun Peak; his speed was astonishing. Yet what he had not expected was that just as he moved, several drops of blood within the mist Lu Ye had sprayed out suddenly twisted and transformed into three figures.
Lu Ye had used the cover of his injury to mix three drops of Treasure Blood into it. With such a concealed method, no one could have detected anything amiss.
"Hmm?" The old man was greatly startled. As he observed them, he found that all three figures carried the aura of Sunlight, leaving him deeply shocked. This method somewhat resembled the Blood Shadow Technique he knew of, but ordinary Blood Shadow Techniques possessed no such profundity. Moreover, the shadows produced by the Blood Shadow Technique tended toward illusion, whereas these three figures before him were utterly real.
They more closely resembled the Treasure Blood Clones unique to the Sacred Venerables of the Blood Race. Yet as far as he knew, those Sacred Venerables generally had only one or two Treasure Blood Clones. A Sacred Venerable capable of condensing three Treasure Blood Clones was unheard of.
There was no time to think further, because he had already charged into the midst of the three figures and was surrounded by them in a triangular formation.
An ordinary Sunlight cultivator caught so off guard would surely have been thrown into utter disarray, but the old man's cultivation was profound, and he remained entirely calm.
Yet in the next moment, his expression changed, because all three figures suddenly emitted extremely violent auras!
"Self-destruction?" The old man looked aghast. He might not have regarded three ordinary Sunlight cultivators as a threat, but if Sunlight cultivators like these self-destructed at close range, even he could not ignore it.
In his haste, he summoned