First Place

"Kill!"

Chu Bai vanished from where he stood.

The next moment, in a canyon filled with gray smoke and despair, a streak of pale gold light slammed into the enormous black shadow.

Jin Changyu was shaken by that momentum too. With a roar, he thrust out his halberd and turned into a wisp of smoke, intercepting the Shadow Beast on the left.

Lin Xuewei and Dong Feng exchanged a glance. Neither dared waste a moment. They swallowed Pills as fast as they could and drove their cultivation techniques furiously.

The two ahead of them were risking their lives to buy time so that they could recover their fighting strength.

Besides... holding out for a quarter of an hour was easier said than done.

The crash of violent spiritual power rang through the clouds.

Beneath the hammer blows of the Qi Refining Third Layer Shadow Beast, each strong enough to shatter rock, Chu Bai was like a lone boat fighting its way through raging waves.

The situation remained dire, but at least the four of them had reached an understanding.

Gray, poisonous killing intent had drained every trace of clean air from the canyon. Each breath sent a searing pain through their lungs.

Clad in Golden Scale Armor that glimmered faintly gold, Chu Bai formed a hand seal before his chest. Like a nail driven deep, he held the narrow passage before the boulder.

Roar!

The Qi Refining Third Layer Shadow Beast let out an inhuman howl. Its thirty-foot body of black smoke swelled, and it raised its hammer of killing intent high. A suffocating foul wind followed as it smashed down toward Chu Bai's head.

That blow could have pulverized a boulder weighing thousands of pounds.

"Watch out!" Lin Xuewei cried.

Chu Bai's expression was cold. His battle instincts surged