"Give me back my godfather!!" the Warden roared hoarsely. He suddenly exerted force, and the ground instantly sank several inches as if struck by an earthquake, dust flying everywhere.
He himself shot into the distance like a cannonball.
Li Xiao blinked dumbly. What was going on!?
The Warden ran away?
The moment I showed up, the Warden ran. Could it be...
Before he could figure it out, a razor-sharp eagle claw tore through the air.
The Eagle Herder Lord was furious, cursing loudly. "You bastard! You almost got me killed. Give me your life!"
Whoosh!
Li Xiao's body was sliced in half at the waist.
Yet the next second, his severed body turned into fragments of shadow and dissipated into the air.
At the same time, countless shadows writhed in the alley's darkness, slowly taking human form.
Li Xiao said arrogantly, "Knowing you could not defeat me, you chose a sneak attack? A wise choice, though not one befitting the strong. The moment you decided to ambush me, you admitted in your heart that you were inferior to me."
The Eagle Herder Lord, who had been about to continue attacking, was so annoyed he laughed. What the hell? I attacked you head-on. Your own reaction was too slow, and you called it a sneak attack?? And I was inferior to you?
"Why don't you look at the wound on your chest before talking?"
Li Xiao glanced at his bloodied chest. Five claw marks cut so deeply that bone was visible, blood pouring from them.
Although he had used Shadow Shift, the Eagle Herder Lord had been too fast, and he had still been scratched.
"Hiss..."
He secretly drew in a sharp breath, but his bearing as a strong man did not diminish in the slightest. "Even gravely wounded, Li can