Lian remained motionless, his eyes fixed on the patriarch, who was striking vertically with his saber, furiously demolishing the laws of space around.
Eliel prepared to employ all her strength to try to contain that destructive advance, but she noticed with surprise that none of the young people in the group, not even the vice-leader, moved an inch. She stood still, observing the young man's back emitting a more intense bloodthirsty presence than any demon ever seen.
No Qi erupted from within Lian, and his saber was a meter away from him, which left the patriarch perplexed. Lian just stared at him, and in the patriarch's eyes, thanks to his recent realm breakthrough, he felt his soul writhing. All his Qi was directed towards the attack, and it did not diminish his momentum at all, but from his soul, the patriarch felt his arms trembling. A fraction of a second later, he realized it wasn't his arms that were trembling, but rather his saber.
