The moment those words were spoken, Green Viper immediately sensed a faint burning sensation from the bloodstains he had touched.
"Overestimating yourself."
He spoke indifferently, then abandoned the thought of taking this man alive. With a clenched hand, he instantly compressed a small stretch of space around him, crushing his body, broken into two halves, into a fist-sized ball of flesh.
Once the physical body was dealt with, the burning sensation coming from the bloodstains faded as well. Green Viper blew gently, wiping away those traces of blood, then prepared to retrieve the man's Primordial Spirit.
Yet when he activated his divine sense, surprise appeared in his eyes.
"Hm? Nothing? How is that possible?"
He could not sense any trace of a Primordial Spirit within that compressed space.
Yet the blood-art false body that had fled upward had clearly been intercepted and slain by his avatar.
Both his divine sense and his bloodline perception had clearly detected that the person before him was the true body.
Rustle...
Click.
Just as Green Viper was puzzling over this, the ball of flesh within that space changed once more.
It first slowly solidified, then transformed from soft flesh into a blood-red crystal.
Only then did the essence-blood aura fused into the blood core turn into a wisp of smoke and drift out.
The instant he saw it, Green Viper's expression changed drastically. He immediately summoned the three avatars outside, having all of them turn themselves into worlds and isolate the regions they guarded from the outside.
Whether fighting cultivators of the same realm or guarding against surprise attacks from lower-realm cultivators wielding magical treasures, this was one of the most secure and effective methods of response.
At the same time, he ordered the avatar stationed outside the passage to the Dark Abyss to