As he spoke, black mist gathered in Venerable Hui You's palm. As it thickened, the tiny, sticky droplets within it drew together into slender black "water needles."
In three breaths, there were already more than a hundred of them.
Sacrificial Spirit Venerable's hands flew through a series of seals. Inside the single eye split open on his forehead, two pupils began spinning around a center that did not exist. A heart-stopping energy gathered before Sacrificial Spirit Heavenly Venerate's third eye.
Sacrificial Spirit Heavenly Venerate's ordinary eyes snapped wide open, changing from half-lidded to perfect circles. His mouth gaped too, and gray mist poured from his eyes and mouth to gather at his forehead. A third color, gray, joined the blue and green within that eye.
Gray lines formed arcane patterns around Sacrificial Spirit Heavenly Venerate's third eye. The energy within its three-colored pupils had reached a level that left Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, and the others appalled.
Xiao Yan had witnessed battles between Dou Zun experts before, but today's ferocity far surpassed the battle in Tianlan City in the Northwest Region.
"Yan Di, you have no idea what sort of being you've brought here. And now you can die!"
Hundreds of water needles burst from Venerable Hui You's palm toward Yan Di, covering every route he could use to escape.
The two pupils in Sacrificial Spirit Venerable's eye were on the verge of merging. A beam of blue, green, and gray energy shot toward Yan Di.
Faced with the full-force assault of two Dou Zun experts, Yan Di laughed instead of growing angry.
"Soul Hall is nothing but a pack of filthy rats living in the shadows. And you dare face the blazing sun?"
He vanished on the spot. In his place appeared silver-black spatial rifts, forming a defensive line