He felt a searing pain across his left arm, where a shard of superheated rock had torn through his cloak and grazed his skin. The Qi Surgawi lingering in the air burned like acid against his body.
He forced himself to his feet, his crimson eyes scanning the devastated landscape. The air was thick with smoke and ozone. Trees were burning, their leaves curling into ash. The precise, devastating strike had not been aimed at killing him, but at revealing him. They knew where he was.
And they were coming.
That was a 'Heaven's Eye Strike', little spark! Ye Cangtian snarled, a rare note of genuine anger in his voice. From a high-level enforcer! They are playing for keeps now!
Xiaochen looked up at the clearing in the canopy, where the bolt had come from. He saw nothing, only the brilliant, mo
