“Someone’s coming, let’s finish this!” A piercing dragon howl escaped Aoxue’s mouth, and the crimson light around her increased in intensity, almost turning Beigong Yu’s Water Kingdom red. The struggling Donglin Shaohui was quickly restrained, and a maddened Beigong Yu stopped pulling his punches. His body split into both a giant kun and enormous peng, slamming into Donglin Shaohui in a concerted attack that doubled their power.

Synergy of kun and peng!

Donglin Shaohui paled when he felt the splintering of the spirit he’d attached to the replica.

“I’ll never forgive you for this, Lu Yun!!” he shrieked. The kun and peng attack had greatly damaged his deteriorating nascent spirit.

“How dare you?!” A tremendous presence descended from the sky as an enormous blade of sword light coalesced and almost cut the city in half. The specter of death loomed over everyone.

“Dao immortal!” Color drained from Aoxue’s face; Beigong Yu had lost his mobility after using that taboo technique. They could only watch helplessly as the sword came for them. The figure of an old man appeared at the same time. When he fired off the slash, he also extended a hand to grab Donglin Shaohui’s prone body.

Roar!

The tolling of a bell rushed out of the city. Blaring like tiger roars, a tiger shadow formed by soundwaves burst out of the city and shattered the sword light.

“The Qing...