The explosions and fissures reached all the way to Sha Chen, but he remained standing where he was, refusing to move. It was almost as if he was completely unaffected, the debris avoiding him on purpose. In truth, anything that tried to hit him, whether the size of a grain of sand, or a chunk of earth the size of a concrete block, all disintegrated the moment they came into contact with his invisible, fiery qi barrier that suffused his figure like an aura.
Ignoring the devastation around him, Sha Chen instead focused on me. I had landed back on the ground after expelling his qi on his body, and my bloodied hands were still grasping both whips that had impaled me.
"UUUUUUUUUUGH!"
With a roar, I tightened my grip on both whips and determinedly pulled them out, despite the hellish excruciating pain the extraction caused. My legs and body trembled from the effort, but I continued to crouch in a low stance, refusing to fall.
"Ugh…"
