"Crap!" Lu Yi's face fell as a powerful force burst from him, pushing back against the searing heat Gui Donghua had unleashed.
He barely managed to shield a small group of people—and salvage a handful of precious resources in the process.
Up above, Jiang Chen watched it all play out. That's more than enough for him to bounce back, he thought, before quietly making his next move.
Just as Lu Yi reached for the spirit stones he'd managed to protect, ready to feed them into his system, everything in front of him suddenly crumbled to ash—gone in an instant.
"What?! My spirit stones—they're gone!" He froze, eyes wide, hands trembling. Rage flared across his face, laced with the first real flicker of panic. "What the hell are we supposed to do now?!"
Without those spirit stones, turning things around was impossible.
Is this really where it all ends?
Anger and frustration boiled up inside Lu Yi.
At the same time, Gui Donghua and the others spread out, surrounding him from all sides.
