Outrageous Learning Ability

"Then I won't play tourist mode with you anymore."

Bai Zhu pressed down with his palm.

Reiatsu burst outward section by section from Hozukimaru's three-part spear blade.

The temperature in the stone corridor rose with it.

Fine cracking sounds came from the black stone surfaces. Several thin fissures were baked into the areas near the spear blade.

Milluki had just pushed himself up beside a broken pillar when his expression changed completely at the sight.

"Bai Zhu! Don't—"

Before he could finish shouting, thick fog surged simultaneously from several stone corridors along the outer ring.

The fog came too fast.

One second, they could still see half a broken wall. The next, even Milluki three steps away was reduced to a shadow.

Bai Zhu's wrist suddenly stiffened.

Water vapor.

This again.

Electrolysis.

Hydrogen.

Explosion.

The words went around in Bai Zhu's head, and he nearly ground his teeth apart.

Flames had already reached the edge of the spear blade, but he forcibly suppressed them.

A single word squeezed from his throat.

"Fuck."

Milluki dropped back to the ground and immediately cursed when he looked up.

"Were you just about to light it up?"

Bai Zhu held Hozukimaru horizontally in front of himself.

"Almost."

"Then we'd have been cooked!"

"I stopped."

"You sound proud of that?"

Bai Zhu did not answer.

Nen mixed with the fog, along with a strange kind of dust.

His Reiatsu spread outward, but its connection broke after only a few meters. It had not vanished; it felt more as if someone had smeared something over it. He could sense outlines, but every detail was scrambled.

For the first time, he found his senses so difficult to use.

A gun safety clicked softly in the distance.

Bai Zhu shifted his footing.

Bang!

The bullet was not aimed