Although they had never sensed any aura from Huo Hai, the newcomer remained extremely cautious. After all, anyone these people treated as their final pillar of support had to possess something extraordinary.
So the instant he saw Huo Hai raise his hand, the newcomer had already planned to dodge. What he had not expected was that Huo Hai would move so quickly. Lightning had always been among the fastest of all attack methods; no lightning-based attack was slow. The moment Huo Hai struck, his opponent had no time to react.
A bolt of lightning struck the man dead-on. Light flashed over his body, and he actually managed to block the lightning. Even so, the impact halted his advance completely and forced him back several steps.
"Not bad. You actually blocked one attack." Huo Hai still had sharp judgment. From that single attack, he had already determined that the man before him was merely a Third-Level Spirit King, perhaps not even truly at that level.
The newcomer unexpectedly knew the Defensive Battle Spirit Art. Otherwise, he would have long since been killed by a single bolt from Huo Hai. And that lightning had not come from Huo Hai himself, but from the Lightning Attraction Art. Back when Huo Hai had still been a Spirit King, he had used the Lightning Attraction Art to modify many Spirit Jades, storing lightning within them for release at any time.
He had even given Fang Biya and the others many Spirit Jades and Spirit Crystals treated with the Lightning Attraction Art for self-defense. Huo Hai had never imagined that one day, he would use such things again to save his own life.
When the Inner Space had first recovered and Huo Hai had sorted through it, he had found these special crystals and sighed with