Rumble~
Lightning snakes roamed through the dark clouds, and the torrential rain showed no sign of stopping.
But just as lightning streaked across the sky and lit up the mountain village, a dragon's roar drew everyone's attention away from Liu Xun's shadow fiend up ahead.
They turned just in time to see the exploding spray of rainwater and the spear piercing the darkness!
"I'm dead?"
Liu Tong scratched his head in bewilderment. Watching "himself" get torn apart in an instant felt a little unreal.
But then Lin Hao drove his spear straight into the darkness. Apart from the few people closest to him, everyone else could barely make out the burliest figure, Liu Tong, being blasted apart in the night of mingling firelight and rain!
Yet everyone present felt the weight of that overbearing dragon might, brimming with savage brutality.
The minds of those closest to Lin Hao had gone completely blank.
Even though Lin Hao's force pressure was not directed at them.
That unrestrained, utterly unsuppressed dragon might was still far too overbearing!
Only when Lin Hao used [Dragon Qi] to rein in [Dragon Might] again and walked back out of the darkness, gradually settling down, did they snap out of their daze. They stared blankly at him returning with his spear, forgetting to move.
"Step on my shadow to check."
Lin Hao let the rain run down his face as he coldly reminded the nearby Embroidered Uniform Guards. They jolted, then quickly stepped on his shadow to confirm there was nothing wrong.
Liu Xun's shadow fiend, who had been drawing their attention at the front, saw this too. His expression instantly darkened further. "Provincial Examination Laureate Lin, I still underestimated you. Even with all those arrangements, we failed to bring our companion out and lost several elites-"
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