As the other party rapidly closed in, the aura around the newcomer grew increasingly frenzied, his presence ever more formidable. With her vast experience in battle, the graceful woman in purple gauze understood in an instant what he intended.
He wanted to take advantage of her being trapped and join forces with this companion. It seemed they might self-detonate a magic treasure or even their own bodies.
Looking again at the body cultivator before her, who was attacking with equal disregard for his life, she saw that after that brief burst, the spiritual power within her had now fallen to around twenty percent. Once these two joined hands, she might very well meet her end here today.
And at that moment, the graceful woman in purple gauze suddenly felt the spiritual power in her body stagnate. Gray spread across many of her fluttering ribbons.
"Poison!"
Greatly alarmed, she immediately erupted with all her strength regardless of the cost. Purple radiance burst from her body, transforming into a blinding expanse.
Bang!
A fierce glint flashed through the black-clad man's eyes as he drove a knee into that sheet of purple radiance. In an instant, a rebounding force several times stronger surged back at him.
The black-clad man's body swayed from the blow. Almost at the same moment, the purple radiance turned into a streak of light and sped into the distance, heading in the direction from which she had previously come.
Seeing this, a trace of relief flashed in the black-clad man's eyes. He had needed to sneak over while simultaneously resisting the spirit-draining force of the "Sea of Rouge," so his speed had been slowed considerably.
In truth, if everyone here had not been focused on one another, he still might have been discovered beforehand even at that speed.
Thus,