Li Xiaoya knew that the damned Yan Longzi (Old Dragon Head) far surpassed him in both divine abilities and cultivation. Turning the tables and killing him was impossible. Moreover, the reason Li Xiaoya had not used the Fire Dragon Sword was that he suspected Yan Longzi had been trying to force him to draw it from the very beginning. With Yan Longzi's cunning, he could not possibly have known Li Xiaoya possessed a treasure so devastating to the Dragon Race without preparing a way to counter it. In all likelihood, drawing the Fire Dragon Sword would only make things worse...
Since he could not defeat Yan Longzi, Li Xiaoya would not force the issue. This was not the Hell Tower, where he had been cornered with nowhere to go. If he could not win and still refused to flee, wouldn't he be walking straight into a dead end? He had not lost his mind. Once he escaped, Yan Longzi would be the one left fretting...
But under these circumstances, he could not abandon Dong Santong and the others aboard the Skyvault Skiff and flee alone. That was why he had used the Immortal Dao Chain...
Then!
"Boom, boom, boom!" Earth-shaking sonic blasts erupted in a frenzy. Li Xiaoya's Bloodthirsty Gorilla form was blasted several hundred li away, and thunderous, muffled explosions burst through the air everywhere he passed...
"Clang, clang, clang!" A series of excruciatingly shrill collisions rang out. The Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash was actually stopped cold by the White Barrier unleashed by the Immortal Dao Chain. The sky kept collapsing wildly, and countless black-and-white Spatial Rifts were carved through the void. Across several hundred li, the Spatial Rifts continued to rupture...
"Damn it!" Even Yan Longzi felt his mind and spirit suffer an injury, though he forcibly suppressed