The first thing to reach Huo Hai from behind was a vine sent out by Qiu Mu. But before it could draw near, two streaks of sword qi suddenly shot in from farther back and sliced it apart.
Those two streaks of sword qi had come from the two swords that had just passed through the afterimage Huo Hai left behind. They had originally been meant to break through his defensive shield and strike him. Instead, they had freed him from his predicament. Huo Hai sneered inwardly. He had carefully calculated the angle of his escape. Otherwise, how could there have been such a coincidence?
What happened next truly was a coincidence, a weakness Huo Hai had only just spotted. As he fled, he neither turned back to attack nor dodged or defended himself. Yet the vine pursuing him suddenly collided with spider silk.
The blood-red spider silk struck the vine on the spot and tangled with it, as though deliberately helping Huo Hai intercept the attack. Even Blood Spider froze at the sight, unable to react.
Obstructed by the vine, Blood Spider's silk lost its momentum, leaving her unable to control it freely. Separating the silk from the vine would also take some time. Once she recovered, she simply poured in more power, dragging the vine along as she sent the silk hurtling toward Huo Hai again. Seeing this, Qiu Mu could only follow the force of her attack.
But at that moment, the freezing energy aimed at Huo Hai arrived as well. Although the freezing energy released by Han Ying, who was in the third-level Spirit Emperor realm, arrived a step later than the others' attacks, its power was formidable.
Unfortunately, when the freezing energy arrived, it did not strike Huo Hai. Instead, the vine and spider silk