"What happened?"
"Where's Tian Zhongtian?"
"What's going on?!!!"
Huang Hongwu, Liu Ruojie, and the other two froze, their faces filled with astonishment.
A second earlier, Tian Zhongtian had still been attacking Qin Hao and the Cloudwing Beast.
The next second, Tian Zhongtian had vanished!
More importantly, with Tian Zhongtian gone, Qin Hao's and the Cloudwing Beast's attacks hurtled straight toward the four of them.
"Look out! Fall back!"
"What? How could a single slash from Qin Hao be so terrifying?!"
Without Tian Zhongtian to block the attacks, Huang Hongwu and the other three felt an overwhelming sense of danger. Their expressions changed drastically, and almost without hesitation, Huang Hongwu and the other two young men shot backward.
Only Liu Ruojie remained, standing rooted to the spot like a wooden chicken.
He wanted to retreat too, but it was too late!
"Ah!!!"
Liu Ruojie screamed in terror.
Slash!
The next instant, a razor-sharp streak of sword qi sliced across Liu Ruojie's left shoulder.
It almost grazed his scalp.
Then the sword qi shot straight toward Huang Hongwu and the others behind him.
Meanwhile, the force unleashed by the Cloudwing Beast's claws struck a towering tree a thousand feet tall in another direction.
With a boom, the towering tree snapped on the spot!
Splat!
At that moment, Qin Hao's sword qi also struck one of the young men at the Meridian Opening Fifth Layer. Before he could even grunt, his body burst apart.
"Ah!"
The other young man screamed in terror.
"Damn it!"
Huang Hongwu looked horrified.
The four of them had been watching the battle from nearby.
They had thought they would witness Qin Hao's death with their own eyes. Who could have imagined Tian Zhongtian would disappear instead?
And just one slash from Qin Hao had frightened their souls out