He slammed into rock on the far end and slid down like a squashed bug.
"Senior!" Luo Min's voice was thin, scorched. "The roots—"
"Don't drop the babies," he said, and then his domain shivered.
A third figure, lower on the fin and unseen until now, flicked a knifeblade of pure heat sideways.
Victor sent out Invisible hands of qi, slapping the blade out of trajectory before it could make contact.
The knife shaved his robe instead of his gut, and then he vanished.
With shadow blink, he reappeared behind the third one.
"Frost Bloom Palm!" He thrust an icy palm forward, slamming into the masked woman's back.
She swept forward and spun repeatedly.
Behind him, the first man had clawed up with a shocked expression.
"He's only a Nascent Soul Realm like us... why is he so strong?" Thr man whispered in disbelief as he tried to flee.
Victor flicked two fingers, conjuring a void thread that was naked to the invisible eye.
