Two streaks of light raced past.
The fire spirits and water spirits locked in slaughter never noticed anything unusual in the sky.
But in the fire spirits' lair, inside the lava volcano, a fire spirit submerged in blazing molten rock abruptly opened its eyes. A presence far beyond the Purple Mansion Realm surged into the heavens.
The fire spirits cultivating in the lava pools around the volcano sensed their king's aura and woke with a start.
One Purple Mansion Realm fire spirit after another pulled its thirty-foot body out of the lava pools and looked toward the tallest volcano.
The sixty-foot-tall Golden Core Realm fire spirit strode onto the volcano's summit. Staring at the two approaching streaks of light, it transmitted its voice to its subjects: "The enemy is here. Meet them in battle!"
The Purple Mansion Realm fire spirits roared and hurled enormous masses of flaming lava into the sky, staining it fiery red.
Xiang Yao watched the meteor-like masses of flaming lava come crashing down, blotting out the sky. Just as she was about to warn Jiang Sheng beside her, he charged straight at them.
The Qingping Sword was already in Jiang Sheng's hand. With a soft ringing, Sword Qi swept across thirty thousand feet, cleaving apart the meteor shower of fire before him.
Every fire spirit on the ground saw a streak of azure light pierce the sky overhead. The flaming lava they had thrown fell back down like rain.
As the sword's ringing rose like a dragon's cry, the azure light spanning the sky abruptly split into countless azure sword rays that shrieked downward!
In an instant, crisscrossing streaks of azure sword light formed a Sword-Qi Net that blotted out the heavens and enveloped the fire spirits below.
The Purple Mansion Realm fire spirits roared and