Zhang Tie became a streak of light and slammed viciously into a Devil Race Knight. At the same time, the shield in his hand shifted eerily to his rear flank and, after several rapid movements, blocked the attacks of two Devil Race Knights closing in on him.
While the shield fended off the Devil Race Knights' attacks, Zhang Tie's other hand did not remain idle. As his savage, lightning-like charge shattered that Devil Race Knight's bodily defenses, the longsword in his hand exchanged blows with the Devil Race Knight at close quarters over a hundred times in mere seconds.
Several uninterrupted hours of pursuit had already greatly drained the Battle Qi and stamina of the Devil Race Knights chasing Zhang Tie. When Zhang Tie struck him, the protective Battle Qi around that Devil Race Knight rippled like the surface of water. His expression changed drastically, and he shifted his form as he retreated at high speed. Yet Zhang Tie clung to him like a maggot on bone, retreating at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same direction, sticking tightly to him like his own shadow.
As that Devil Race Knight shifted and retreated, he was moving in everyone else's eyes—up or down, left or right, forward or back. But relative to Zhang Tie, he was standing still, because the distance between him and Zhang Tie had never changed by the slightest bit.
After more than a hundred exchanges, the longsword in Zhang Tie's hand finally broke through the Devil Race Knight's two-handed defense and struck the protective Battle Qi around him, which rippled like water.
In the next second, the longsword, infused with the sharp, metal-aspect Battle Qi from Zhang Tie's simulated Five Elements Battle Qi, blazed with dazzling white radiance. Amid violent explosions, it slashed the same