If one looked down from the sky.
One would see that a patch of withered, scorched-yellow ground had suddenly appeared on the verdant plain.
At the center of that scorched ground, Wang Ba gently held the unconscious Bu Chan, his icy gaze carrying a trace of unprecedented anger and killing intent as he looked at Yuan Wenzhi nearby.
Bu Chan was not dead, but her current condition was hardly any better.
The wounds Yuan Wenzhi had inflicted, left unchecked because she had exhausted her Law Power healing Wang Ba, were worsening...
"Heh, so what if you've recovered? If I were you, I'd hurry up and hand over the Divine Relic. You might still have time to save your dao companion."
Yuan Wenzhi sneered.
Although surprised that Wang Ba had returned to normal, Yuan Wenzhi did not take him seriously at all.
There was no other reason-the disparity was simply too great.
Even though his injuries were worsening and he had less than a tenth of his strength left, dealing with a mere Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator would be as easy as reaching out and... well, that female cultivator was an exception.
The reason he had not immediately attacked Wang Ba and seized the Divine Relic was that he knew little about it. What if he killed the other man and could not find it?
The Incense Token was already gone. If this last Divine Relic disappeared too, all the suffering he had endured would have been for nothing.
Nobody wanted their efforts to go to waste, and Yuan Wenzhi was no exception.
Yet Wang Ba answered him with a sweep of his sleeve!
A strange little monkey, only shin-high and covered in half-gold, half-silver fur, instantly leaped out. His calm eyes darted about, swiftly taking in his surroundings. The