Rock and dust swallowed the place where Luotian had struck. The separate impacts ran together into a collapse that hid him from the people watching across the battlefield.
He An could no longer pick out the young man against the cliff. There was only the ruin left by the spears and the spreading cloud above it. Waiting on the tree to observe Master Zhu had made sense while the two fighters remained in view. Seeing Luotian vanish beneath the attack broke that stillness.
He left his perch and went toward the rubble, searching for a sign of movement among the fallen rock.
"God's Son!" Heron Lord shot out from the top of the tree and began searching for Luotian under the rubble. Three spears returned back to their owner before transforming into three black balls, hovering above the head. Master Zhu landed beside Wo Liming.
