However fast she moved, the man in white moved faster. His five fingers clawed at the air, and a blue light coiled around his arm, transforming into a whip that stretched across the entire lake. With a casual flick, it split apart the encirclement of seven black-clad men in an instant.
In an instant, the momentum swallowed mountains and rivers.
That whip, condensed with spiritual power, tore through the void, distorting the surrounding space-time. Everything nearby was dragged into that chaotic space, mixed with lake water spraying in all directions, shooting outward like sharp blades.
And Feng Jiuge was too close—a tree as thick as a bowl's rim was uprooted, riding the waves of air currents, and smashed straight toward her!
Damn it, indiscriminate killing of innocents!
Feng Jiuge's eyes narrowed slightly, two flashes of keen light vanishing from her pupils. At the same time, her toes tapped lightly against the ground, and with a sweeping movement, she leaped backward.
The tree trunk, tumbling along with the air currents, charged forward without restraint, instantly reducing the spot she had just occupied into a pile of broken branches and rotten leaves.
If she had left half a second later, she would definitely have been smashed into a bloody pulp by that trunk.
Her feet did not stop, yet the force behind that trunk seemed undiminished by the obstruction of the forest, continuing to barrel toward her at undiminished speed, not even giving her a chance to turn around.
Under the trunk's sweeping blow, everything around seemed to be sucked into a massive shredder, leaving not even a blade of grass where it passed.
Feng Jiuge's palms condensed into a mass of white spiritual flames. She struck out rapidly at the trunk before her, not seeking to knock it away, but only borrowing the recoil force to shoot backward like an arrow from a bow, rapidly escaping from that distorted space.
Turning and landing, even someone with endurance like Feng Jiuge couldn't help but gasp heavily for breath.
"Damn it, everyone has a duty to protect trees. Making such a ruckus without even setting up a barrier." Cursing under her breath, Feng Jiuge straightened her body, lifted her eyes and gaze, and looked toward the center of the battlefield aura.
The place where she had just escaped with her life had already lost its original appearance, looking as if it had been mercilessly run over by a steamroller—utterly devastating.
The ripple from just a single whip strike was as ferocious and unstoppable as a tsunami, impossible to withstand.
That man...
Chin lifting slightly, her searching gaze locked directly onto the center of that battle.
The seven streams of purple spiritual flames from the black-clad men on the periphery were like blazing infernos, interweaving in midair into a purple wall of fire, trapping that man within their domineering blaze.
Yet that man's body never moved, while the blue chain in his hand danced wildly through the air as if trying to break free from some restraint. Those piercing eyes were like glittering obsidian—even the stars above the nine heavens could not match the radiance within his gaze.
Blue and purple light collided, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, killing intent surging to the heavens!
Suddenly—
The blue whip instantly split into seven strands, sweeping away everything with a devastating momentum too fast for the naked eye to follow. Like sparks of fire growing with the wind, in moments it became a prairie blaze, pulling the seven men surrounding him into that aura of his that was like a massive shredder.
Everything happened too fast—so fast that Feng Jiuge didn't even see how the two sides exchanged blows before the seven black-clad men were reduced to fine powder by that overpowering aura, scattering into the air.
With such strength, even if ten old masters came, they probably couldn't withstand a casual strike from him.
Truly, there were always people beyond people, heavens beyond heavens.
That flickering blue light in the distance rapidly vanished. Feng Jiuge's heart sank, and she inwardly thought that this was bad.