He found himself at a dead end.
"Do you have any business with me?" Rui turned around, narrowing his eyes at a hooded masked figure that blocked his path.
The figure was a Martial Apprentice, that much he could tell. Yet the mask was powerful enough to jam even his Riemannian Echo, which meant that it was no ordinary mask, certainly nothing an ordinary Martial Apprentice could ever hope to get their hands on.
"Do I?" The hooded masked figure asked Rui.
His voice was distorted.
Rui narrowed his eyes as he unleashed the aura that he was constantly suppressing.
Heaven and earth squirmed under the sheer peril that Rui radiated as a high-grade Martial Senior.
Yet he could only widen his eyes in shock as two Martial Masters appeared behind him out of nowhere.
'It's not just them!' Rui realized. 'I've been surrounded by Martial Seniors before I realized it!'