"Watch out!!!"
Mystic Ice Fairy cried out, her voice carrying an urgency she had not even realized herself.
But how could her voice possibly be faster than those three figures already close at hand?
"HAHAHAHA!"
An utterly chilling laugh rang out from the first figure.
"Ants of the Human Realm, die..."
But his voice abruptly cut off.
Because his fist had been firmly caught by a hand.
There had clearly been no preparation on the other side. While resisting the soaring pressure of the five-thousandth step, he had turned around and extended his hand.
Yet that very hand had tightly locked around his fist, making his long-accumulated, full-force strike unable to advance even an inch!
Zhuge Feng slowly turned his head. His usually steady eyes were now as cold as ice that had never melted for eternity.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
At the same time, Xiao Lingxi also extended her hand.
Her movement was light and gentle, even carrying an indescribable elegance.
Yet that gentle motion caused the second figure's claw, powerful enough to tear apart stars, to freeze in midair, unable to advance another fraction.
Xiao Yan was even more straightforward. He did not even move his hand, merely spitting out the spiritual grass clenched between his teeth.
That weightless blade of grass struck the third figure squarely in the forehead.
Then, that figure flew backward at a speed even faster than when he had arrived!
A thunderous boom rang out!
That figure crashed heavily onto the 4,999th step, smashing out a pit dozens of yards wide!
The entire venue fell silent.
A deathly silence!
Everyone had been stunned by this sudden change.
The aura of any one of those three ambushers was not the slightest bit weaker than peerless prodigies such as Ji