At the brink of life and death, at the most critical moment, Xue Ge suddenly lost control of his body and sank into silent darkness.
While he floundered helplessly, a small white dragon coiled around his body.
"You're-the Dragon Vein?" Xue Ge murmured.
The white dragon stared at Xue Ge, then suddenly opened its gaping maw and lunged to bite him.
"!" Startled, Xue Ge dodged its snapping jaws, then pulled hard to tear the white dragon off his body.
The white dragon bound Xue Ge tightly, biting him desperately as it fought against his struggles.
Yet the white dragon was nowhere near as strong as Xue Ge, and before long, he managed to pry it off.
The instant Xue Ge pulled the white dragon away, the Dragon Vein energy that had filled his flesh vanished, and his consciousness returned to his body.
As soon as his vision returned, he saw devastation before him. The woods within a radius of nearly a hundred meters had been completely destroyed.
Afui, who had been so aggressive before, was staring at him in horror and panic for some unknown reason.
Before Xue Ge could understand what had happened or even make a move, pain swept through his entire body as though it were falling apart, along with an overwhelming sense of suffocation.
The sudden disappearance of the Dragon Vein energy abruptly stripped Xue Ge's body of its previous regenerative power, and the strain accumulated during the battle erupted all at once.
Sure enough, Afui did not let this opportunity slip by. He came straight at Xue Ge with a knife-hand strike, intent on killing him.
Unable to stand under the violent backlash, Xue Ge still reacted on instinct, gathering chakra to form a Rasengan and hammering it toward Afui, who was right in