At that very instant-
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three black shadows tore through the air!
Three bone whips shot out of the darkness, precisely coiled around the three women clinging to Cao Xianming, and jerked hard!
The women were instantly flung away, letting out piercing shrieks.
Two more bone whips struck like snakes shooting from their holes, instantly knocking away the remaining eerie women pinning him down.
The last bone whip wrapped around Cao Xianming's waist like lightning, winding around three times and binding him tight.
A tremendous force suddenly pulled at him.
Cao Xianming felt his body grow light as he was forcibly dragged out at breakneck speed!
Even in this emergency, Cao Xianming's miserly nature remained unchanged.
He turned his wrist and flicked a strand of gumlike sticky thread from his fingertip. It stuck to the Shadow Escape Talisman on the ground with a snap, and only then did he let himself be dragged away without worry.
The instant he was pulled out of the bewildering grounds, Cao Xianming felt a hollow jolt in his chest, startled and uncertain.
None of the Sequence Transcendents in the convoy used whips!
Had he escaped the tiger's jaws only to enter the wolf's den?
The next second, his body steadied as someone caught him securely.
Cao Xianming looked up blankly.
What greeted his eyes was a face he could not have known better.
Yang Yong.
"Yang Yong..."
Even an old schemer like Cao Xianming, who was always devious and calculating and never let his feelings show, felt his throat bob and his eyes burn at that moment.
He clenched his teeth hard, forcing back the sob that had nearly escaped his lips.
Seeing him like this, Yang Yong marveled inwardly-an expression like that on Cao Xianming's face was a once-in-a-century sight.
But