Since she had already known that man excelled at divine sense attacks, how could she truly have been so reckless as to take no precautions?
The instant the man vanished, he launched a divine sense attack on Su Jiu. Yet the moment his demonic qi touched her, she dispelled it completely. His own divine sense failed to reach her sea of consciousness, either. Instead, it was as though it had struck an exceptionally resilient spring, which reflected the full force of his fiercely aggressive divine sense back at him.
He naturally knew just how powerful his own attack was. Even he suffered considerable injuries from the rebound, to the point that he could no longer conceal himself in black mist and his body was exposed.
He had just tried to move when he suddenly felt a chill in his chest.
The man lowered his head to stare at the white thread protruding from his chest, his face filled with bewilderment and disbelief.
His mouth opened slightly, only for the white thread to be withdrawn.
Su Jiu possessed otherworldly eyes. She might not be able to see someone whose cultivation far exceeded hers clearly, but what gave a mere Nascent Soul Realm cultivator the confidence to think he could evade her gaze?
Yes, Su Jiu had seen his location long ago. She had merely been waiting for him to strike.
"A Jiu, I did well, didn't I?" A clear, slightly sweet and youthful voice rang out in Su Jiu's sea of consciousness. Who else could it have been but Little Pearl?
Su Jiu had returned the Jade Bead Bracelet to her sea of consciousness beforehand. The thin membrane that had reflected the attack was formed by the bracelet, and protecting her sea of consciousness with that membrane was one of its