Li Chang's Whisk was still entangled with the nine black dragons. Caught off guard, he had actually allowed Yunxi to get close. He reacted at once, but in the end, he was still half a beat too slow. The Nine Nether Sword pierced his defensive barrier and wounded him.
At the final moment, however, he instinctively twisted aside, avoiding the destruction of his Dantian. The Sword Qi only pierced his left waist, yet even so, it sent cold sweat pouring down his back.
Yunxi silently counted the time in her heart. Seeing that she had wounded Li Chang, she flashed away and vanished once more into a spatial node, transmitting to Immortal Spirit, "Has the Realm Spirit not broken free from its suppression yet?"
"Master, it should be soon! But the time limit on your forcibly elevated cultivation is also about to end. Li Chang isn't dead yet. What should we do?"
Yunxi took a deep breath and endured the pain of her Meridians about to shatter. "What else can we do? Find a way to kill him!"
With that, she seized the time to flash out from the spatial node where she had hidden. The moment she appeared this time, Li Chang locked onto her with his divine sense. His face darkened as he swung his Whisk, shredding one of the black dragons besieging him. Then he arrived before Yunxi in an instant. Clearly, his earlier injury had only hardened his resolve to kill the male cultivator before him.
Yunxi raised her hand and summoned the Nine Nether Underworld Dragon Umbrella back before her. The remaining eight black dragons once more wound themselves around Li Chang, refusing to give him any chance to harm their master.
Gripping the Nine Nether Sword, Yunxi poured the Thunder Spiritual Power within her