Baolu had just wanted to ask why, but she was no fool. After thinking it over carefully, she understood what had happened. Her willow eyebrows furrowed as she said in shock, "Could it be that the reason he did not use his full strength just now was to make Qian Li and the others think that there were no Heavenly Mandate Realm experts guarding this place?"
Yang Chen nodded. "Qian Li and Fu Xuanbing and the others are quite clever. They first sent a group of subordinates to probe the situation, intending to leave the moment they saw anything was wrong. But this Heavenly Mandate Realm expert is no idiot either. Let us see how things turn out. Fu Xuanbing and the others still have a chance if they flee now. If they do not, their lives will be in grave danger."
With that thought, the battle ahead began to change as well.
The two sides had originally been evenly matched, locked in a fierce stalemate, with neither able to gain the upper hand.
But before long, the ghostly hand that had vanished suddenly burrowed out from the ground.
The moment that ghostly hand emerged, it seemed to declare the end of the battle. It instantly displayed immense might. Layer upon layer of Ghost Kings swirled around it, sweeping outward in an instant and turning the previously clamorous scene silent in the blink of an eye.
More than a dozen human experts and Ice Fire Heavenly Phoenixes were all completely caught within that ghostly hand's palm.
Baolu's heart tightened at the sight.
Many of her clansmen were among them.
That ghostly hand needed only one motion to utterly slaughter her clansmen.
Yet surprisingly, the ghostly hand did not wipe them all out. Instead, it transformed into a Ghost King with