"If my guess is right..."
"You are definitely not the mysterious man from Room 1!" Guard Hua declared, his eyes fixed on the black-robed man floating in midair. His voice brimmed with confidence.
"What makes you say that?" Xiao Yan asked, inwardly startled.
Had this fellow recognized me?
That shouldn't be possible, should it?
Guard Hua wasn't particularly strong, and his soul power was rather weak. How could he possibly see through my identity?
"I sensed the aura of the mysterious man in Room 1. His soul power wasn't nearly this strong."
"Soul power as formidable as yours clearly marks you as a high-ranking alchemist. And as it happens, an alchemist at the auction also released his soul power..." Guard Hua laid out his reasoning with assurance.
"You... you're that Emperor Grade Three alchemist!" Yang Fei exclaimed, secretly alarmed.
"Since you already know, then..."
"Die!" As Xiao Yan spoke, three hundred-yard flaming giant dragons surged into existence behind him and hurtled straight toward the two men.
Earth-yellow flames wreathed the dragons, bathing the entire Red Pine Forest in a glow like the last light of doomsday.
"This is bad! It's an array!"
"Young Commander, run!" Guard Hua roared, immediately mustering all his strength to try to hold Xiao Yan back.
Guard Hua knew the power of arrays all too well. With his current one-star Dou Xian intermediate stage strength, breaking the array and escaping with Yang Fei was nothing but a fool's dream.
"Guard Hua, this..." Yang Fei's expression grew grave. Clearly, the pressure Xiao Yan placed on them was anything but ordinary.
"Since we can't escape, we'll fight!"
"We're already inside the array. If we can kill this fellow..."
"His Xian Ling Pill and Earth Dragon Blood Crystal will be ours." After struggling for a while and discovering that