Kong Liao knew the young girl before him was behind all of this. Not daring to delay any longer, he charged straight at Su Jiu, only to discover that no matter how he ran, the distance between them remained exactly the same.
Yet Su Jiu had clearly been standing in place the entire time...
Only then did Kong Liao panic. "What trick have you pulled?"
Su Jiu lowered her hands and stopped reciting the incantation. Like a statue devoid of emotion, she uttered words as cold and merciless as ice. "You're already at Nascent Soul Great Perfection, yet you still haven't comprehended a domain?"
She spoke lightly, but Kong Liao's face twisted for an instant.
And not just Kong Liao—even the corner of Jin Chen's mouth twitched. He could not help grumbling inwardly that, in the eyes of these geniuses, ordinary cultivators probably did not even qualify as human.
Hearing Su Jiu's words, Kong Liao looked at the glistening white snow around him, and fear finally crept into his heart.
He realized that while he had still been able to run a moment ago, he now seemed locked inside a tiny pocket of space, with no room left to move. Suppressing his inward collapse, Kong Liao demanded in a sinister voice, "What exactly do you want?"
Su Jiu merely watched him impassively. Several snowflakes suddenly appeared in her hand, their edges sharply defined. They looked exquisite, but Kong Liao could feel the danger emanating from them.
"Your life, naturally!" As her words fell, the snowflakes in Su Jiu's hand abruptly appeared beside Kong Liao.
Just as she was about to slit his throat with them, someone suddenly pulled Kong Liao out of her domain.
Su Jiu pressed her lips together, then withdrew her domain with a light sweep of her