Xu Yang did not hurry to leave. Instead, he found a long-established restaurant and sampled Azure Sun City's local cuisine before strolling out of Azure Cloud City.
Autumn was giving way to winter. Though the blazing sun hung high overhead, Xu Yang felt no oppressive heat.
Once he was far from other people, he did not rush to use his lightness skill to travel. Instead, he tried drawing the Wolf-Fang Saber from his back with Astral Qi.
After numerous failures, he had finally worked it out.
With just a thought, his Astral Qi could jolt the saber out for him to catch. It made drawing the weapon convenient-and looked impressive, too.
"Hm?"
Suddenly, he instinctively sensed something wrong. He had not spotted anything unusual; it was simply an instinctive warning. After achieving qi refining into gang, his body's faculties had probably gained a measure of foresight toward danger.
Bang!
The next instant, a patch of brush beside him exploded. Dust billowed, and a figure burst through it, shooting straight toward him like an arrow.
An overpowering aura erupted like a volcano, whipping up a sudden gale. The figure skimmed low over the ground, his aura gouging a trench through the earth and scattering dirt everywhere.
Before reaching Xu Yang, he thrust a palm at him from a distance.
Red light flashed across his hand, followed immediately by a burst of Astral Qi.
Xu Yang had no time to think, much less dodge. His Golden Astral Skill surged into action, pink Astral Qi spraying from every pore and weaving into a red barrier before him.
The next instant, the incoming Astral Qi thundered into his protective Astral Qi.
Crack!
A sound like shattering porcelain rang out. The ambusher's Astral Qi struck his protective barrier and shattered on impact, turning into torrents