The spear radiance swept across the front and rear of the stone palace at astonishing speed, aimed directly at the Innate Earth Spirit.
Faced with Jiang Feng's probing spear strike, the Innate Earth Spirit actually remained utterly unmoving!
At the instant the spear radiance reached him, Jiang Feng caught a flicker of a smile on the Innate Earth Spirit's face.
That trace of a smile sent a chill through Jiang Feng.
Because the smile was simply too bizarre!
Stiff!
So stiff that the densely packed folds were squeezed open into cracks—and even more horrifyingly, those folds were not wrinkles at all, but actual fissures in flesh!
Within those split folds, pale, eerie flesh tugged and pulled against itself.
"A dead man!"
At the sight of that smile, those were the first two words that came to Jiang Feng's mind.
At the same time, Jiang Feng sensed resistance against the spear radiance he had launched.
A powerful invisible force directly suspended the spear radiance he had released two feet from the Innate Earth Spirit's chest.
The black Bloodthirsty Heart Lotus Divine Fire flowed over the spear radiance, yet did not erupt despite being stopped.
Jiang Feng's expression shifted slightly!
"The gap is too great!"
The smile on the Innate Earth Spirit's face gradually faded. As the cracks in the folds of his face closed, a sound like stone grinding against stone came from his face.
"Facing me, you actually refuse to use your full strength!" The steady, rough voice sounded once more.
The Innate Earth Spirit's right hand, which had been hanging at his side all along, slowly rose.
The movement was incredibly, almost impossibly slow, as though his hand were immensely heavy.
As his right hand lifted, Jiang Feng clearly heard the continual sound of joints grinding.
It was the