"Ha ha ha!" Ouyang Haotian burst out laughing at those words and shouted, "You think I'll let you?" His hands formed seal after seal, blue light blazing as he thrust a finger toward the seabed below. Blue light rippled across the sea. Boom! Splash! A column of water erupted, and an enormous iceberg appeared before him. With a thunderous crash, the two gigantic skeletal arms struck the iceberg, yet failed to break through it. Instead, blue light flashed across the ice and froze both arms solid.
Black Skeleton narrowed his eyes, suffocating killing intent erupting from his entire body. Gritting his teeth, he rapidly formed hand seals, black qi pouring out of him. A suit of pitch-black armor covered in skulls appeared around his body, and he began to grow larger and larger. With a whoosh, a pair of enormous Bone-Spike Wings sprouted from his back. Black qi writhed around them, transforming them into pitch-black Bat Wings. With a boom and a mighty flap, a vast mass of black qi burst forth. Rather than fight, he fled, turning into a jet-black beam that raced after Li Xiaoya and the others.
"In your dreams!" Ouyang Haotian knew exactly what Black Skeleton intended. He roared, and blue light flashed across his body as a gleaming blue suit of armor appeared around him. Another flash shone behind the armor, and a pair of wings glittering with blue ice crystals emerged from his back. Red light flickered, and he turned into a blue beam in pursuit of Black Skeleton, countless icy snowflakes falling in his wake.
Li Xiaoya and the others had only flown a dozen li when they suddenly sensed a suffocating presence behind them. Their expressions changed drastically. Dong Santong looked back and saw two streaks of escaping light, one black and