"Bang!"
A flicker of surprise crossed Xiao Fan's eyes as he stared at the Lizardman within arm's reach. He had carefully compared the terrain before choosing this spot, deliberately avoiding the Fire Lizardmen's patrol routes and staying far enough from their gathering grounds. By all rights, no Lizardman should have appeared here, much less a Six-Star Dou Zun.
But since he had already been discovered, Xiao Fan seized the moment while his opponent was still stunned and blasted a punch at him, knocking him back. Then Xiao Fan turned and ran.
Only now, fully clear of that void, did Xiao Fan release the pounding heartbeat and cold sweat he had been suppressing.
Whoosh!
"Thump, thump, thump!"
Cold sweat instantly broke out all over Xiao Fan's body, only to be evaporated by the flames covering his skin. What followed was a heartbeat he could not calm for a long time, hammering away without pause.
Only now did the terror of facing the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and the Old Dragon Emperor truly grip Xiao Fan's heart.
Recalling that final moment when his eyes had met the Old Dragon Emperor's, Xiao Fan felt as though the other party had seized his heart in a fist. A sense of helplessness washed over him.
Meanwhile, the seventh transformation of the Nine Solar Transformations was still active within him. Vast golden energy continued pouring into his body from the seventh golden "sun." His strength as a Two-Star Dou Zun was still slowly rising, and after that brief delay, it had already surged to the middle stage of Two-Star Dou Zun.
Likewise, with his strength increasing so much, even the physique he had strengthened at the Ancient Emperor Plaza was gradually beginning to strain.
What left Xiao Fan most helpless, however, was that when he tried