"Rumble!"
The Blood Pool shook violently, its surface blazing with dazzling radiance as it shot straight toward Li Changfeng!
"As expected of the peerless Blood Core of legend! Such dazzling brilliance, such divine radiance! No... you..." Li Changfeng's face twisted with terror, as though he had seen something unspeakably dreadful. At first, he had mistaken the light streaming from the Blood Pool for the Blood Core's spiritual radiance, but a moment later, his scalp prickled and his soul nearly fled his body in fright!
There was no peerless Blood Core in the Blood Pool! There was only a cultivator with an icy face. When that cultivator's cold gaze swept over him, he felt as though he had plunged into an ice cellar.
"No!" In that moment of crisis, Li Changfeng tried to fly backward, but it was already too late.
A massive Demon Finger wreathed in dense black light tore through the air and, beneath his utterly horrified gaze, struck Li Changfeng squarely between the brows.
"Clang!"
In that lightning-swift instant, a brilliant golden light burst from Li Changfeng's forehead. A pale gold Jade Talisman transformed into a palm-sized golden shield, blocking the fatal blow!
"Crack!"
The golden shield shattered into countless fragments. Seizing that opening, Li Changfeng finally put some distance between himself and the Blood Pool.
"A damaged Talisman Treasure! What a pity!" Xu Yan sighed softly. He had expected to kill the man in a single strike, but had not anticipated that Li Changfeng would use a damaged defensive Talisman Treasure to forcibly withstand that fatal blow.
"Lin Dao! You're still alive!" Elder Qi had already flown to Li Changfeng's side, the shock on his face beyond words!
He had never imagined that the cultivator before him could survive a Golden Core cultivator's carefully laid scheme.
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