Deep in the jungle.

Li Luo was sitting on a moss-covered boulder by the creek, his clothes tattered as if he had just been through a war.

Which he had. Just a while ago, he had fought off a dozen people here and there. It had taken him everything he had to get away.

He was exhausted. If not for his dual resonant palaces and his two resonance seeds absorbing worldly natural energy, as well as the stamina that his water resonance gave him, he would have been crushed by that gauntlet.

Sigh.

Li Luo shut his eyes, channeling his energy cultivation arts and healing as best as he could.

His hard-won peace was short-lived. His eyes flew open as he scanned...