Time resumed!
The instant Time Stop was lifted, Zhou Zhenjiang had yet to realize what had happened. His hands paddled through the soil like he was swimming, intending to keep sinking.
After clawing twice, he suddenly froze.
Because instead of dirt, he had touched air.
Then a sharp pain erupted across his scalp as his connection to the earth was completely severed.
Zhou Zhenjiang's gaze trembled. Reflected in his vision was the tiny Brotherhood city below. He could even see the ant-like people on the ground staring at him in disbelief.
His eyes quivered again and again. His eyeballs slowly rolled upward through the trembling, then he went completely rigid.
A grinning face entered his sight. Bewitching blood-red pupils glimmered with an eerie crimson light as they stared straight at him.
The moment their eyes met, Zhou Zhenjiang panicked. Terror crawled up his spine and filled his entire body.
Strangely, as the fear surfaced, much of the madness in his eyes dissipated.
The madness caused by Forbidden Energy invading him... was gone?
"You... AHHH!!!"
The moment Zhou Zhenjiang opened his mouth, the tearing pain in his right arm turned his voice into a shrill scream.
Bai Ye had ripped his arm clean off. Muscle fibers, tendons, and bones were all violently torn apart as crimson blood sprayed into the sky!
Whoosh!
"That felt good." Bai Ye let out a long breath, feeling refreshed all over.
After fighting for so long earlier, he had really only been hitting dirt and rocks. But up here in the sky, he was striking actual flesh and blood.
Zhou Zhenjiang screamed and struggled, raising his left arm to counterattack, only for Bai Ye to clamp it down tightly.
Under his terrified gaze...
"No... Don't, AHHH!!"
With a violent tear, his left arm fell off on