Those spatial rifts had been torn open by his own attacks. The bald, purple-robed man had never imagined that someone could hide inside them, much less pinpoint a position in the outside world so accurately.
Gong Shanhe had wanted to attack long before this, but when he sent Li Yan a voice transmission, Li Yan had told him to keep waiting.
The bald, purple-robed man saw the beast's enormous jaws already upon him. The timing and angle of the ambush were fiendishly precise: the Water-Avoiding Golden-Eyed Beast had just suffered an injury to its waist, and the damage to his bonded treasure had tugged at his mind.
His attention had been focused entirely on Li Yan. By the time he reacted to the sudden attack, it was too late to muster a spell.
He hastily swung the enormous seawater swords in his hands, crossing them once more. At the same time, he shook his shoulder, and a tiny fluorescent insect gleaming green flashed away toward Li Yan, who was about to attack him from the other side.
Bang!
The bald, purple-robed man shuddered violently and stumbled several steps backward through the air.
"Hm?"
A crack appeared in the protective barrier over his throat. The two enormous swords formed from seawater in his hands, having hastily neutralized the force of the attack, also dissolved into droplets that fell like rain.
The Qiongqi Purgatory Art really is formidable. This man is far stronger than that Second Elder. Although he falls short of the Great Elder, he already has the ability to contend briefly with a Nascent Soul Late Stage grand cultivator.
Despite being ambushed, the bald, purple-robed man had to admit that these people from the Tianli Clan were masters among masters. They could genuinely pose a lethal threat even to a