An Qingyu stood where he was, his gray eyes precisely tracking Mad Demon Cao Yuan's movements. Strange gleams flowed deep within them, as if he were calculating and deducing something.
Just as the first Malevolent Qi blade gleam was about to touch him, An Qingyu lightly sidestepped, and the blade gleam grazed past his chest.
Then he raised his right hand and tugged through the air. The surrounding space-time abruptly twisted, forcibly shredding the remaining dozen or so blade gleams into fragments!
A gale swept behind An Qingyu as Mad Demon Cao Yuan emerged from the dust. With a ghostly flicker, a palm wrapped in Malevolent Qi Flames clamped down on An Qingyu's shoulder like an iron vise!
A crescent-sized black blade gleam flashed after it, sending a bloodied arm soaring high into the sky.
Mad Demon Cao Yuan stared fixedly at An Qingyu with scarlet eyes and rasped, word by word:
"Sorry... I have to... keep you here..."
An Qingyu glanced at his empty right shoulder. Even though an arm had been severed in an instant, his expression did not change in the slightest, as if what had been cut off were merely a prosthetic limb.
Mad Demon Cao Yuan did not stop. Another blade gleam tore through the void, severing An Qingyu's left arm as well. A surging blaze of Malevolent Qi erupted in midair, directly burning the severed arm to ash.
Cao Yuan knew that, with An Qingyu's abilities, regenerating his arms would take only a few seconds. At such a critical moment, he naturally would not hold back.
"No need to apologize." An Qingyu looked indifferently at those scarlet eyes. "I won't hold back either."
As his gray eyes narrowed slightly, Mad Demon Cao Yuan suddenly felt his palm grow lighter. The straight sword in his