Almost at the exact moment Chen Yan disappeared.
Three streaks of light, moving at incredible speed, burst out from three different directions in the crowd. They all had the same target—the inconspicuous dark gold leaf!
"Get lost!"
With a furious roar, one figure surged ahead of the others. His entire body was encased in flowing liquid metal, and he shot toward the leaf like a silver bullet, reaching the spot beneath it in an instant.
The other two were not about to back down.
"It's mine!"
A petite woman let out a piercing shriek and formed a hand seal. A vast net woven from pure starlight dropped over them. It covered not only the leaf but also the other two competitors!
The third man remained silent. Gripping a short dagger wreathed in blue arcs of electricity, he flickered strangely through the air a few times, then pierced straight through the starlight net's blockade and thrust his dagger toward the leaf!
"Star Vessels! Two of them have awakened Star Vessels!"
"That woman is the Star-Web Spider Woman. Her constitution lets her control the power of starlight!"
In the melee raging in the distance, someone recognized the three and cried out in alarm.
Any one of them, on their own, was fierce enough to rank among the top ten of the nearly hundred people here!
Now, over a leaf that looked utterly ordinary, three top talents had crashed straight into one another!
Just as the blue dagger was about to touch the leaf, the man covered in liquid metal let out a furious roar. He came from behind and slammed a fully metalized fist into the dagger wielder's back!
At the same time, the starlight net had closed in, ready to snare all three along with the leaf!
In the blink of