Their movements were swift—and utterly sudden.
The dozen-plus people besieging Li Su barely had time to react. Especially when they saw Li Su being rescued, several of them visibly lost focus and were ambushed by figures emerging from the shadows. Blades pierced through their bodies, and their expressions changed on the spot as their bodies shook violently. The blades had not merely pierced their flesh—they had even wounded their primordial spirits, leaving scars upon their souls.
Such wounds were far from minor.
Even among other races, unless one possessed a special talent concerning the soul, the primordial spirit was incomparably important to the vast majority of living beings. Once injured, the damage was not only severe but exceedingly difficult to heal.
The great mountain that came crashing down the next instant was even more astonishing. It seemed to have been strengthened by some special innate talent, making it exceptionally solid. When it struck the ground, it was as though what fell was not stone, but a massive slab of metal.
The impact of its landing, followed by the explosion, caught even those in the Hundred Million Dao Realm off guard. Those caught in it coughed up blood.
However, as high-level Battle Monarchs, their reactions were also exceptionally swift.
Among them, the foremost prodigy of the Fire Element from the Five Elements race—the number one among the middle-ranked other races—reacted with remarkable speed. Just as the blade was about to pierce him, a radiance like the sun erupted from his body.
Not only did it melt the blade, the intense light instantly erased the shadows on the ground and directly set the people emerging from them ablaze.
More than that, he raised a hand and formed a miniature sun. Everything within a hundred meters around him became an environment of extreme