Chapter 5490

He blurred forward-one heartbeat, then the next-becoming a streak of living lightning.

Invoking Blazing Stride, Jared’s soles burst with scarlet flame, doubling his speed in a single pulse. Two steps were all he needed to close the gap; by the third, he was already at Immortal Lord Nimbus’ back, heat ripping through the air in his wake.

With effortless strength, he seized the fleeing Immortal Lord Nimbus by the collar, hauling him off the ground like a squirming chick snatched by a hawk.

Jared pivoted and drifted back to the battlefield, one-handed, as though the captured Immortal Lord Nimbus weighed no more than a feather.

“What?”

“T-That’s impossible!”

The remaining Demonic Cultivators went corpse-pale. If even Immortal Lord Nimbus crumpled in Jared’s grasp, then that day’s outcome was carved in stone; they could almost taste the cold edge of death descending upon them.