Douluo God Realm · Asura God Temple
The blood-red sea of clouds churned violently, dark crimson lightning tearing gashes through it.
The Asura God stared at the two men fighting blood-soaked battles in the water screen, a trace of agitation flashing through his scarlet eyes. On the other side of the screen, Qian Daoliu's party was traveling at tremendous speed, golden soul power streaking conspicuously across the sky. They had clearly used acceleration soul tools and were expected to arrive almost a day early.
"Qian Daoliu is moving too fast! At this rate, that old fellow will storm in before Tang Hao and his brother finish Hell Road!"
He raised a hand and curled his fingers toward the water screen. Dark crimson divine sense wound silently around Hell Road's Blood Bats like fine threads.
"I can only lower the difficulty... but I can't make it too obvious. They have to think they survived on their own."
With a slight stir of his divine sense, the Blood Bats in the water screen suddenly grew sluggish. Their flying speed dropped by nearly half, their numbers visibly dwindled, and the potent venom in their fangs weakened considerably, leaving it capable of causing only mild numbness.
On Hell Road, Tang Hao was swinging his sword at a bat when he suddenly noticed how much slower the bats before him had become. Delight surged through him.
"Big Brother! They've weakened! Keep pushing!"
Tang Xiao noticed the change as well. The numbness in his arm, freshly grazed by a bat's fangs, was nowhere near as severe as before.
Gritting his teeth, he swept his sword across, forcing back the last few bats. Like startled birds, the Blood Bats flapped their wings and fled into the darkness, showing no sign of pursuing them again.
Tang Hao panted