"Du Xun... was dead?"
Deep in the river, the Phantom-Tide Demon King, who had linked with its clan to cast the Water Curtain Sky Lock, no longer wore its earlier expression of languid ease.
Its eyes widened as it stared at the headless Venom Flood Dragon corpse, its face filled with disbelief.
This was the patriarch of the Venom Flood Dragon lineage, a mighty flood dragon whose seniority in the Clearwater Dragon Palace was second only to the Old Flood Dragon!
And just like that, it was gone?
It hadn't even withstood a single punch?
A chill shot straight up from the depths of the Phantom-Tide Demon King's heart.
It had no idea who the person who had killed Du Xun was.
It knew only that this was someone it absolutely could not fight!
In a flash of lightning, the Phantom-Tide Demon King made its decision.
It immediately rallied its clan members to withdraw from the battlefield, simultaneously releasing the chains that bound and anchored their targets as it began slipping backward.
At the same time, to keep Mu Yang from setting his sights on it, it deployed its hidden contingency and activated the hypnotic suggestion it had planted in the Sea-Swallowing Monster King.
Normally, even the Phantom-Tide Demon King, exceptionally skilled at attacking souls, could never easily hypnotize a Monster King of the same realm.
Not even with its seventh rank late stage cultivation against an opponent only at the seventh rank early stage.
But everyone knew the Sea-Swallowing Mystic Whale Clan was all brawn and no brains.
As a result, the Sea-Swallowing Monster King, which had just been following its instincts and preparing to flee, abruptly changed direction.
Its tiny, faintly glowing eyes locked firmly onto Mu Yang on the eastern battlefield.
Then the Sea-Swallowing Monster King, its