"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The Gray Lightning striking the ground bored wildly through the earth, bombarding the cultivators. Wherever it passed, the air roared, exploded, and churned. It was actually faster than they could escape through the ground...
What left Di Long Yunyi and the other two choking with frustration was that Li Xiaoya's presence had vanished completely. In an instant, no one knew where he had burrowed off to... Wasn't his Earth Escape technique a little too astonishing? All three regretted listening to him. He was running far too fast...
But!
It was too late for regrets now. The ground was already filled with Gray Lightning raining down and spreading madly through the earth. To get out, they would have to withstand even more of it...
That was only natural. After Li Xiaoya refined the Heart of the Earth and the Earth Soul all those years ago, his Earth Element Immortal Root had become the strongest of his Five-Element Immortal Roots. His escape speed underground was considerably faster than in the sky, and he left neither sound nor trace. It was practically heaven-defying...
Just then!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Countless bolts of gray-white lightning bored furiously into the ground. The cultivators had descended only a thousand zhang when the Gray Lightning caught up behind them...
"Oh no!" The three paled and hurriedly unleashed spells and treasures. Di Long Yunyi released an Ice Shield glittering with blue light, Qiong Nanqi released an enormous treasure resembling a flaming bronze bell, and Ailishan directly used her Jade Ruyi, shimmering with purple-red light, to block the attack behind her...
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
"Clang!"
"Bang! Bang!" A chain of thunderous explosions erupted instantly underground as the Gray Lightning struck their treasures. The entire ground cracked and heaved wildly beneath the bombardment. These bolts were clearly far