"You..."
Hua Li was furious. She waved both hands again, and the two hollow silver rings whistled loudly as they shot toward Li Zhu.
Li Zhu grinned mockingly and waved a hand. The crimson crystal threads at her side turned transparent once more, seeming to vanish into thin air when in fact they split into countless strands and stabbed toward Hua Li.
Hua Li's silver rings had only flown halfway when the dense crystal threads wrapped around them, leaving them suspended in midair and unable to move.
Before she could react, someone grabbed her by the shoulder and hurled her aside.
"Pfft, pfft..."
A series of soft sounds rang out. Seven Kills had time to throw her away, but not enough time to dodge himself.
Blood spattered from his back, revealing nearly a hundred impossibly fine crystal threads stained with blood.
"No!"
Hua Li cried out in alarm.
Before her voice faded, Seven Kills's body was already being tugged by the crystal threads and flung toward the Nethervoid Earth Dragon.
Seeing someone delivered right to its jaws, the Nethervoid Earth Dragon instinctively opened its mouth and bit down at him.
Seven Kills hung in midair as light suddenly flared all around him. A giant wolf phantom emerged, and he twisted his body, about to soar away.
But immediately afterward, waves of Magic Power suddenly coursed through the transparent crystal threads embedded in his body.
Seven Kills stiffened all over. The phantom around him instantly dispersed, and his chance to escape vanished with it.
Just as everyone thought he was certainly doomed, the Nethervoid Earth Dragon, its bloody maw wide open, suddenly shuddered violently. After its massive body struggled and writhed a few times, it abruptly abandoned Seven Kills at its mouth and turned to burrow underground.
The sudden change left