"You're courting death."
Shi Yi's expression turned utterly cold.
Since his birth, no one had ever dared mention that old affair to his face, much less brand him a "thief."
His double pupils opened and closed. Two terrifying beams of pitch-black light gathered deep in his eyes, then tore through the void, hurtling straight toward Shi Hou's brow with the deathly aura of utter annihilation.
This was the innate divine ability of the double-pupiled, capable of instantly obliterating a powerful cultivator's soul.
Before the beams even arrived, the void along their path collapsed piece by piece.
Shi Hou neither dodged nor retreated.
"Black Pig."
Kang, perched on his shoulder, had been disturbed from sleep and opened his eyes with great reluctance, giving a soft snort through his nostrils.
"Whoosh-"
Two ghostly blue beams shot from the pig's nostrils, meeting the destructive black light head-on.
There was no earth-shaking explosion, nor any dazzling shower of sparks from colliding runes.
The instant the blue light touched the black light, the unstoppable Double Pupils Tribulation Light, said to see through the origin of all things, stalled eerily. Then the power of laws within the black light was forcibly stripped away and dismantled, dissolving into a wisp of smoke in midair.
All arts were rendered void.
A crack of astonishment finally appeared on Shi Yi's face, which had never before changed expression.
The power of his double pupils, unfailing until now, had actually been wiped away by a winged black pig's sneeze.
"While you're down, I'll take your life. Interrupting casts is what I do best."
Seizing the instant of Shi Yi's distraction, Shi Hou stamped his right foot hard against the ground.
"Boom!"
The ground beneath him, a sea of bones, could not withstand that immense force and collapsed with a roar into