Tianji Daoist Foresaw the Future

The super battleship Great Sun rumbled. It fired an invisible beam and vanished from everyone's sight and divine sense.

Azurewood Daoist Heir Ji Liuyue's heart skipped a beat. She shrank deeper into the crowd.

Ancient branches grew rapidly from between her fingers, spreading until they wrapped her petite body layer upon layer.

Those branches came directly from a sapling of the Azure Heaven Divine Tree, passed down by the Azurewood Immortal Sect for hundreds of thousands of years. Mysterious, archaic runes flickered along every branch.

They looked green and tender, but were harder than most high-grade spiritual metals in the world. Their resilience was unmatched: they could disperse enough force to destroy a mountain into a gentle breeze that merely stirred a strand of hair.

"It's Shadow Three-One! Fall back!"

Tianji Daoist, a young man prematurely aged, shouted the warning.

An instant too late, a cloud of gray mist hidden in an ordinary patch of empty space shuddered. A bone-chilling premonition filled Shadow Three-One's heart as mortal danger descended.

"No. Impossible!"

"How did he find me so quickly?"

"The Eastern Extreme Demon Sect couldn't do it! Even the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Sword Heirs of old shouldn't have been able to!"

Shadow Three-One could not believe it.

Concealment and assassination were the foundations of the Shadow Demon Abyss. He could not step into the sunlight and fight a defensive battle. He had to strike first, operate alone, and assassinate his targets. That was only natural.

But how had he been discovered so quickly?

"Myriad Shadows Void-Splitting Escape!"

With his life at stake, Shadow Three-One cast aside all other concerns. His body merged with an invisible black cloud before him, then burst into hundreds of thousands of fine black threads. They slipped into space and fled in every direction, vanishing in