Published: March 2, 2025
Sensing the child struggling within his skill, Luo Hai's smile widened as the child's movements became weaker and weaker.
In terms of pure strength comparison, Luo Hai's power was indeed less than that of the child. However, the beauty of battle lay precisely in this—nobody knew what would happen in the next second...
Therefore, the process didn't matter; in battle, what mattered was the outcome!
You live, I die!!!
In the next moment, a fierce surge of energy erupted, and Luo Hai instantly pushed all of his strength into the large hand that gripped the child. The energy-formed hand visibly swelled, and even the lines on the palm became much clearer.
Then, Luo Hai controlled the massive hand and squeezed down fiercely...
However, the clear feedback from the skill made Luo Hai's expression darken.
The deadly squeeze of the energy hand clutched at nothing but empty space.
Turning his head, he looked at Wen Yu in the distance, whose face was pale, and at the small, charred figure at Wen Yu's feet. Luo Hai sighed deeply.
"You little troublemaker!"
...
"Thank you for the compliment!"
Wen Yu smiled and nodded at Luo Hai while feeding the elixir into the child's mouth, simultaneously directing Faceless to fend off Agu's attacks in the distance.
He gently tapped the child’s body with the tip of his foot.
"How are you? You can't die now!"
If you die, who will hold off Luo Hai?
This was Wen Yu's fundamental purpose in saving the child. Given the current state of the battle, the child belonged to the "allied forces." If the child were easily crushed by Luo Hai, the balance of power on the battlefield would surely be lost again. In that situation, Wen Yu would have no option but to flee.
"Cough, cough, cough... I can't die..."
A weak voice came from beneath Wen Yu's feet. The child let out a series of coughs, and his severely injured body and exhausted stamina recovered slightly under the effect of the elixir. Then, the child took out a jade tablet and sent out a clear mental wave.
"Old man, save me..."
In the next second, a dark spatial rift suddenly appeared before Wen Yu.
...
From the black spatial rift, a series of sounds reminiscent of the howling of evil spirits echoed continuously, and a cold gust of wind blew from the rift, sending a chill through Wen Yu's body.
At the same time, accompanied by the sound of "tap, tap, tap" footsteps, a figure slowly emerged from the end of the spatial rift—a hunched body, covered in ash and sporadic flames, holding a massive smoking pipe that looked like a heavy hammer, continuously spitting fire.
At the smoking bowl, a gruesome head covered in blood seemed to ignite, sending flames shooting out as wisps of blue smoke wafted from the head's seven orifices. The smoke emitted an unknown scent that made Wen Yu feel a jolt of energy, as if the sealing power of heaven was loosening...
Watching the old man appear so leisurely, it seemed that the eagle, as the old man's opponent, hadn't managed to withstand a few blows before the old man twisted its neck, and its body turned into tobacco in the old man's pipe...
This scene made Wen Yu shake his head with a wry smile.
No one was foolish; bringing the old man and the child here was clearly an intention to use the two as weapons. However, after the eagle led the old man into the dimensional maze, the old man decisively took action, instantly killing the eagle while hiding within the maze, creating the illusion that he was still entangled in battle with it.
If nothing went wrong, the old man seemed to plan to wait until the battle outside ended and then come out to clean up—Luo Hai and Wen Yu, he didn’t want to let either of them go!
...
If it weren't for the child's situation, the old man's plan should have succeeded—under normal strength comparisons, the battle process should have been that Luo Hai's team eliminated Wen Yu and Tang Haofei, with the child desperately holding out against the remaining three. At that time, the old man would open the dimensional space and directly enter the battlefield.