[Weakness, a Fatal Weakness]

The Sacred Temple guard pierced through by his companion's halberd immediately self-destructed.

Blood burst across the sky.

The shockwave shook the entire earth... The Spirit Cloud Kingdom Lord, his body battered and torn by the blast, painfully escaped the aftermath of the massive explosion. A Level Five Heaven-rank warrior, he had actually found it difficult to withstand the self-destruction of a Level Three Heaven-rank Sacred Temple guard... These Sacred Temple guards possessed a special ability that could increase their strength over a hundredfold in a short time. Of course, the price of such forced enhancement was death!

A Sacred Temple guard whose strength had increased a hundredfold was not much weaker than the Spirit Cloud Kingdom Lord.

With a hundredfold increase, the enhancement from their special armor, and the amplification of their cultivated battle techniques, the combined effect of all three made their self-destruction power far exceed the maximum limit a powerhouse like the Spirit Cloud Kingdom Lord could endure.

The fact that the Spirit Cloud Kingdom Lord had managed to escape from the center of the blast was already extraordinarily impressive.

Just as he prepared to flee toward his companions in hopes of receiving aid—

Faster than the leaders of the three groups from the Eight Wastes, Snowfield, and War Song were the other suicide warriors of the Sacred Temple guards... Two Sacred Temple guards, including the one who had previously pierced the Spirit Cloud Kingdom Lord's body with a halberd, seemed to have known all along that he could escape. Before he had completely rushed out of the explosion's range, they had already charged at him.

One on each side.

They clamped onto the Spirit Cloud Kingdom Lord's left and right legs.

Both held special blood daggers in their hands. Chains trailed from those daggers, and once they