“Damn it.”
I messed up.
And big time.
Bzzzt.
I grimaced at the lightning-qi crackling before me. I’d misread things because I was too focused.
In killing my energy sense and masking my qi, I’d forgotten one thing for a moment.
‘I should’ve at least acted crushed by the lightning-qi.’
The pressure pouring out in front of me. Lightning-qi mixing with that pressure.
The presence of a martial master who’d reached transcendence—one of the Three Venerables.
He was no doubt holding back because his own child, Nangong Jeohwi, was here, but that was still not something a mere late-stage Earthly Rank could dare endure.
Even Father, who easily surpassed the late-stage Earthly Rank, had to spew flames to withstand it.
And I’d just stood there and took it.
I stood there as if nothing were wrong while taking the full brunt of his aura.
I’d figured it would be fine since I was hiding my realm, but on second thought, that was a mistake.
“How peculiar.”
Bzzzt.…