Those eight gates had used the bloodlines of sixteen people as a trigger to stir the earth veins, allowing the blond man to unleash such a technique. Yet Li had directly borrowed a trace of Pangu's form, throwing the surrounding earth veins into chaos, and so the eight gates were immediately unraveled by him.
After breaking them, Li had no intention of fighting the blond man. He simply turned into a streak of light and swiftly fled the area. In truth, it was not that Li wanted to leave. If he could, he truly wanted to rush over and finish off the blond man directly. But activating Pangu's form consumed an enormous amount of stamina. That brief instant had nearly drained all his strength, forcing him to flee at full speed.
The moment Aili received news of Li, she rushed over as well. However, by the time she arrived, Li had long since vanished into the forest.
The blond man gritted his teeth. "Cousin, there's no need to regret it. That brat broke my formation, but he merely escaped for the moment. Once the Tribunal's main force arrives tomorrow to support us, forget a few dozen lion demon guards—even if there were tyrannosaurs here, we could still kill them!"
"Thank you, Cousin Dijia!" Though Aili felt indignant, she was still deeply grateful to the blond man.
Meanwhile, Li fled all the way and, by some strange coincidence, stumbled back into the area where the ferocious beasts had fought. To his surprise, when he arrived this time, he found far fewer corpses around than before. He quickly found the place where he had discovered the bones last time. In fact, he had spotted it from a great distance away, but unexpectedly, it was no longer a cave. It could not even