Yi Yang did not turn to check, but his divine sense had already detected the danger a moment before the blood worm manifested by Zhongli Qing burst out of the earth.
Facing the cold, sinister aura rushing at him from behind, he abruptly shot upward. His movement technique, Cloud-Leaping Crane, sprang into action, lifting him from the ground ten feet into the air with a light leap.
Almost in the same breath that Yi Yang leaped away, the enormous blood-colored worm swept beneath his feet, its mouth packed with rings of sharp teeth.
A hot, blood-reeking wind struck his face, even melting broad patches of snow on the ground.
At the same time, Shen Biluo seized the opening and pursued him with her blood-colored swords. Bloody sword light violently crossed and collided where he had just stood.
Boom.
A ring of blood-red force exploded outward, sweeping away all the snow for dozens of feet around and exposing the frozen-hard black soil beneath.
Yi Yang narrowly escaped through the gap between the two attacks.
When he flipped over and regained his footing on the other side of the Blood Pool, a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.
The tremendous shock had injured him when he forcibly took Shen Biluo's full-powered Dharma Body Realm sword strike with his left arm alone.
The situation was now gravely unfavorable for Yi Yang. Shen Biluo loomed ahead in her Serpent-Tailed Human Body, her two swords of bloody baleful energy crossed and pointed toward him, her gaze icy.
The blood worm Zhongli Qing had transformed into coiled to his left. Its enormous mouthparts opened and closed, thick drool dripping onto the snow and corroding sizzling little pits, sealing off every route of retreat to his left.
To his right lay the enormous