Misstep! Hesitation

At the sight of this, Chen Changqing was overjoyed.

He had been hiding in the shadows all along, waiting precisely for the moment True Lord Jinkue and the Black-Robed True Lord both emerged wounded.

"Now!"

Seeing the two True Lords blasted apart, Chen Changqing flashed forward and shot straight toward the black fragment.

In less than a few breaths, he had arrived before it.

The next moment, Chen Changqing did not hesitate. With a slight raise of his hand, he prepared to collect the fragment.

Yet what Chen Changqing had not expected was that just as his spiritual power spread forth and was about to touch the fragment, a sudden change erupted.

"Boom!"

A golden and a black radiance suddenly rippled out from around the fragment. Under the waves of those two lights, Chen Changqing's spiritual power was instantly crushed into nothingness.

"Whoosh!"

Beyond that, a vast and overwhelming force of impact swept toward Chen Changqing in an instant.

Caught off guard, Chen Changqing was sent flying by that impact.

He slid back a considerable distance before finally steadying himself.

"Damn it!"

"There was actually a restriction laid here!"

Chen Changqing's expression darkened as he spoke coldly.

If his physical body had not been powerful, that restriction's impact alone would have been enough to take his life.

Moreover, he could sense that the two restrictive forces around the fragment belonged to True Lord Jinkue and the Black-Robed True Lord.

Just as Chen Changqing was lost in thought, True Lord Jinkue and the Black-Robed True Lord also stabilized themselves.

Their gazes then turned toward Chen Changqing almost simultaneously.

"Hmph!"

"You little brat truly have the gall of a bear and the guts of a leopard!"

"With merely Early Tribulation Transcendence cultivation, you dare covet that fragment?"

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