“This teleportation array’s positioning is spot-on. If it were a thousand zhang off, it’d be right in the thunder storm,” Ma Bi joked, eyeing the array’s light just ten zhang away.
“Probably locked onto the noisiest spot. Anywhere else, and we’d have to fly a long way,” Hu Yue said, cradling the Fire Spirit Rabbit that leaped into her arms.
“Exactly. The loudest place is where people gather, and the Saint Yuan Academy’s leaders knew it,” Zi Ling nodded.
Lin Xiao silently admired the academy’s cunning, though they likely didn’t expect the thunder storm’s scale. A bit closer, and reaching the array would’ve been tough.
“Heh, once we’re out of the Xuanyu Battlefield, with Lin Xiao’s strength and gains, plenty of folks will be fuming,” Niu Bi chuckled.
Hu Yue glanced back at Xiahou Wanyu and others trailing behind, cursing, “Once we’re out, I’ll settle scores with those bastards slowly.”
Now at Martial King Sixth Realm, she’d surpass Xiahou Wanyu. After their last ambush, she’d make them pay.
There’d be plenty of time outside the battlefield to deal with Xiahou Wanyu and the You Tian Demon Palace disciples.
But at that moment, her gaze froze.
*Whoosh!*
As Hu Yue looked back, Lin Xiao sensed a domineering, terrifying force surging from above and behind, a thick sense of danger flooding his heart.
“Trouble, quick!”
With no time for anything else, Lin Xiao didn’t look back. He thrust out both palms, pushing Hu Yue and others forward, while he lunged ahead.
But the situation was dire. The terrifying force was too fast. Though only the edge of a radiant fist aura hit him, it was devastating, shredding his flesh and sending him flying toward the thunder storm, within hundreds of zhang.
A terrifying swallowing force enveloped him, but Lin Xiao, not fully incapacitated, turned and unleashed his utmost Yuan and spiritual power, resisting the storm’s pull. His body’s descent slowed.
His gaze locked onto the void ahead.
In the sky, a familiar figure appeared.
A sinister old man in a black robe, exuding a domineering aura, stared at the storm with shock, then cold malice.
It was Mei Taiyang, a Martial Monarch First Realm elder from the You Tian Demon Palace.
They’d paid some unknown price to send a Martial Monarch into the Xuanyu Battlefield—and Lin Xiao’s enemy, no less.
The onlookers were stunned. A Martial Monarch from the void rift?
A Martial Monarch, ruler of all, was unstoppable. In the Xuanyu Battlefield, none could stand against him.
After their shock, the palace disciples grew ecstatic. With a Martial Monarch elder, the Holy City stragglers were doomed.
Hu Yue and others, pushed near the array, looked at Lin Xiao being pulled into the storm with shock and fury. Hu Yue and Zi Ling surged with power, ready to rush to him.
But the domineering Martial Monarch aura swept down.
“Get out!” Lin Xiao roared at Hu Yue and the others.
“None of you are leaving!” Mei Taiyang sneered, his killing intent surging, his Martial Monarch power ready to strike.
“Mei Taiyang, I have the You Tian Demon Pillar. If I were you, I’d take it first!” Lin Xiao shouted, raising the pillar and channeling power into it. Black aura seeped out.
“You Tian Demon Pillar!” Mei Taiyang’s gaze snapped to Lin Xiao, nearing the storm, seeing the black pillar. He trembled, retracting his Martial Monarch power and charging at Lin Xiao with maximum speed.
Compared to the pillar, the palace disciples’ lives were insignificant.
The pillar was the palace’s founding treasure. Seizing it meant gaining the complete inheritance, becoming deputy palace leader, or even replacing the leader after mastering it.
The pillar was paramount.
Seeing it, Mei Taiyang’s eyes blazed red, his speed like lightning.
“Get out!” Lin Xiao roared at Hu Yue and the others.
“Lin Xiao!” Hu Yue cried.
“We’ll avenge him later!” Ma Bi grabbed Hu Yue, stopping her charge. Niu Bi, Xiu Luo Tu Fu, Gu Juejin, Bai Moxuan, Mu Yao, and others pulled her and Zi Ling back toward the array’s light.
Lin Xiao sighed in relief. Relaxing, he was swiftly pulled into the storm. Seeing Hu Yue enter the array and Mei Taiyang charging, a smile crossed his face.
*Whoosh!*
It all happened in an instant. Hu Yue, tears in her eyes, was pulled into the array’s light. She saw Lin Xiao smiling as he was sucked into the storm, then her vision blurred.
“No!”
“No!”
“No!”
Hu Yue, Zi Ling, and even Mei Taiyang’s voices echoed…
