By then, Cloud Top Abode would be at the end of its tether and truly be destroyed by them.
However, Yuan Yan sneered and could not help but strike at them. "Don't worry. The reinforcements you're waiting for won't be coming, because the Tang Sect's experts have already launched a night raid on their branch headquarters."
The words struck like a bolt from the blue, leaving Purple Bamboo Pavilion's upper ranks rooted to the spot.
They could not understand how Red Lotus knew what they had been thinking.
Nor did they understand what she meant. Based on their knowledge of Cloud Top Abode, it absolutely did not possess the strength to attack the branch headquarters of all three major factions at once.
Yet the truth was unfolding before their very eyes, forcing them to believe it.
"Eighth soul skill, Icebound Thousand Li!"
Before they had fully calmed down, Yuan Yan's eighth soul skill suddenly lit up.
At that moment, his entire body seemed to merge as one with the Ice Profound Sword in his hand.
Even heaven and earth appeared to freeze before him. With a single sword strike, the world darkened, and snow somehow began to fall all around them.
When those bloody snowflakes landed on the faces of Purple Bamboo Pavilion's Soul Masters, they carved bloody streaks across their skin.
"What's going on? There's something wrong with these snowflakes! Everyone, hurry—get inside!"
"Ah—"
Before long, people began to notice that something was wrong with the snowflakes. They immediately fled madly into the surrounding buildings.
Those who were slower to escape and weaker in strength soon let out a string of miserable screams.
The unlucky ones had their throats slit directly by the snowflakes and collapsed to the ground without another sound.
Boom!!
A tremendous crash suddenly erupted from