Yu Ci understood, but at this moment they were too close, and wanting to react now was already too late. A pain shot through his throat as the opponent locked onto it, hoisting him straight up into the air.
The tremors in the subterranean earth veins were far from over. The newly risen hill at the bottom of the lake was already fracturing, and bursting out from the midst of it was fiery red magma!
In the blink of an eye, the magma was wrapped in a layer of grayish-white turbid currents. Dark red light flickered within, and purple-gold divine lightning wove through the center, whipping up waves of bubbles. The soaring temperature evaporated massive amounts of the altered lake water, and the extracted sword fiend mixed into the magma and lightning, turning into an absolute mess.
The upper part of the lakebed fissure had been collapsed by the explosive impact at some unknown moment. Magma and turbid currents surged upward, bursting through the lake surface in the blink of an eye. Gray-black water vapor, smoke, and silt seemed to transform into a ferocious giant beast, raging across the surface of the lake.
Yet down on the lake bottom, which had already become a boiling porridge of mud, the Heavy Artifact Sect leader showed no intention of moving to dodge.
Clamping a grip on Yu Ci's neck, she spoke in a deep voice, "Do not treat other people's goodwill as capital... Back then, we were able to bring disaster upon your Li Chen Sect, and killing a junior like you today amounts to nothing."
"Are you trying to act fierce?"
Faced with such a predicament, Yu Ci's stubborn streak hardened, and he taunted, "If you want to kill me, just put in some effort. Why bother with nonsense?"
The Heavy