Li Yan shouted a warning, but he did not even have time to say anything more. In an instant, he turned the cultivator in his hand into a fading afterimage and hurled him to the side. At the same time, an intensely dense layer of black qi surged from his body, shrouding Gong Chenying in the blink of an eye.
The moment the black qi touched Gong Chenying, it immediately shook loose and flung away the cultivator she had just lifted with her hand!
Li Yan suddenly felt a violent palpitation. His heart seemed to leap out of his chest in an instant. Acting on instinct, he wrapped Gong Chenying in black qi and swept her into his arms.
The intensely dense black qi roiled, completely enveloping the two of them and the last cultivator lying on the ground below in a flash. In an instant, it looked as if a mass of pitch-black ink had appeared there.
However, Li Yan heard neither a violent explosion nor a massive shock wave rushing toward him. Still shaken, he finally found a moment to sweep his Divine Sense behind him. Miao Lou and the other man had both crashed to the ground, motionless!
"Dammit, how could we run into this here too!"
Li Yan's heart pounded wildly as the curse burst from his lips. After sensing that the two men's auras were steady, he finally released Gong Chenying from his arms.
From the moment he threw out the man who had undergone Soul Search, to pulling Gong Chenying into his arms, to checking what was happening behind him, only about two breaths had passed. Gong Chenying was still completely dazed.
She had suddenly been thrown back when a tremendous force shook the cultivator from her grasp, and then another force had yanked