At this moment, the middle-aged man had already arrived before Lu Ren, but his eyes were fixed tightly on the Ghost Fox Demon Jade beside Lu Ren. His eyes reddened.
"It's Qian'er's jade pendant!"
The middle-aged man reached out to seize the jade pendant.
Lying some distance away, Lu Ren watched the flaming giant axe slash down. Though the axe was not aimed at him, he still felt as though he were suffocating.
"Senior, watch out!"
Lu Ren shouted a warning.
Yet the middle-aged man ignored him. He merely grasped the Ghost Fox Demon Jade in his hand, his emotions greatly stirred.
"Qian'er, I've finally found the jade pendant!"
the middle-aged man said excitedly.
"Die!"
At that moment, the flaming giant axe finally descended over the middle-aged man's head.
Yet the collision everyone had expected never occurred, nor was there any sound at all.
Carrying terrifying might, the flaming giant axe seemed to have been blocked by something invisible.
Then—
Crack! Crack!
The flaming giant axe actually began to shatter and collapse on its own. All its attacks vanished like smoke in the wind. The giant axe dissolved into flames and reassembled into the figure of an old man, who spat out a mouthful of blood and fell from the sky, crashing heavily onto the ground.
"How is this possible?"
Blood gushed wildly from the old man's mouth. He felt as though his entire body were about to collapse.
The prodigy protected by the old man was likewise utterly shocked.
This old man was an ancestor of his Immortal Sect, an Eternal-Tier Immortal powerhouse and the strongest expert of their sect. He had become his Dao Protector to safeguard him.
Yet now, his sect ancestor's full-force strike had failed to injure this middle-aged man in the slightest.
At this moment,