The instant the Ancestral Dragon Inner Core entered his Dantian, Mu Bai felt as though his entire body had been vaporized. The sensation passed in a flash, but the Ancestral Dragon Inner Core concealed its radiance and lay quietly dormant, motionless, while the fist-sized hole burned through Mu Bai's abdomen remained starkly visible.
"Hai Chen!"
Ignoring the changes taking place in his body, Mu Bai shouted Hai Chen's name again. Hai Chen seemed not to hear him and stepped straight into the void. The battle between the supreme experts in the void moved farther away with him, until only faint rumbling gradually came through the rift in the heavens.
"The Ancestral Dragon Inner Core is on him!"
Someone suddenly shouted, pointing at Mu Bai.
In an instant, everyone regained their freedom of movement. Tens of thousands of gazes, sharp as lightning and blazing as torches, abruptly fixed on Mu Bai. His heart jolted. He moved to burrow underground, only to find himself suddenly caught as though threads had snagged his entire body, immobilizing him once again. With a single step, the four powerful figures on Black Mountain appeared before him.
Kill him and take the core!
The four powerful figures appeared and, without a word, all reached for Mu Bai's Dantian. Their four enormous hands collided with thunderous booms on the way, and the tremendous force spilling from the impact blasted Mu Bai away, dissolving the restraints around him like ice and snow.
At that same moment, black clouds suddenly filled the eastern sky, surging and roiling as though the waters of the Dao Sea had been poured across the heavens, raising endless raging waves of black water. A streak of seven-colored light suddenly hung in midair, and a red-haired woman in red charged over, seething with hatred.
"Faithless man,