"You think you've got this in the bag?" Xie Ning's lips curled. "Aren't you a little too confident?"
As she spoke, a tremor ran through her body, and the thin membrane of space around her rippled outwards like waves on water.
"Impossible." A flicker of astonishment crossed the short, fat man's eyes.
'How could this woman possibly counter the space barrier I set up?'
'How could the initiative fall into someone else's hands?'
A fierce glint flashed in the short, fat man's eyes as a sharp splitting axe suddenly materialized and hurtled through the air toward Xie Ning.
But less than half a meter away from Xie Ning, a single thought from her sent it careening back into the villa's courtyard.
At the same time, an earthen wall suddenly dropped in front of Xie Ning and Cres.
Two metallic spheres landed on the ground, erupting with incredibly intense Gold Element Energy that instantly shredded the earthen wall.
