Everyone froze.
Then, almost by instinct, they all looked toward the direction the roar had come from.
Lu Xiu looked over curiously as well.
But the moment she turned her head—the piercing sound of something tearing through the air became like a solid blade, abruptly ripping apart the air over the entire block.
Two flashes of light, so fast the naked eye could not capture them at all, rose from the other side of the street like streaking meteors and came hurtling over with an unstoppable momentum.
And the instant those flashes appeared.
Everyone saw an incomparably massive phantom flicker into being and vanish.
It was an enormous creature wreathed in cold silver radiance, its body long and winding, with magnificent branching horns atop its head that looked as if they had been condensed from frost and snow, and fine scales covered its body, gleaming with an icy sheen.
It manifested in midair for less than half a second, yet that oppressive sense of looking down on all things made everyone's breathing stall.
BOOM!!!
Before anyone could recover from the shock of that massive silver phantom.
The two flashes entangled in midair had already smashed down like meteorites into the ground not far from Lu Xiu!
A deafening crash exploded outward.
The hard asphalt caved in and shattered in an instant, and a violent shock wave, wrapped in dust and gravel that filled the sky, blasted wildly in every direction like a raging tidal wave.
At the center of the billowing dust.
A slender figure slowly emerged through the flying dirt.
It was a young girl in a dress, her waist-length silver hair drifting slightly in the surging gale, reflecting a cold radiance like moonlight.
It was Jian Li.
At that moment, she was half-crouched on one knee at the