"I'll help you."
"Th... thank you..."
Bai Yujun sighed. They had all come out of the Hundred Thousand Mountains to scrape out a living; it was only that he had failed to make it. The price was his life. The King of Beasts had probably been too ostentatious. Sometimes, keeping one's head down and living like a worm was the wisest course.
She said no more, released Hengdao, and used the Sword Control Technique... no, the Blade Control Technique.
Her hands formed seals rapidly before her chest in a dazzling blur. The spiritual-energy blades floating around her swiftly merged with Hengdao.
Hengdao emitted a ten-foot-long gleaming white Blade Light, its tip pointed downward as it locked onto the giant tiger's head beneath the water from afar. Wind Tiger did not struggle either. He strained to raise his head, gazing toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the southwest. After death, he wanted to return to his long-missed homeland...
After hesitating for a moment, Bai Yujun brought her hands together, pointed her index and middle fingers ahead, and pushed forward.
Buzz—!
Hengdao, wrapped in its ten-foot Blade Light, moved. Carrying fierce Sharp Qi, it tore through the dim sky like a white silk ribbon, plunging straight toward the giant tiger's head as he gazed southwest.
Tiger bones were hard...
Crack!
Hengdao pierced the skull but became stuck. Bai Yujun gritted her teeth, her joined index and middle fingers trembling as they pushed forward. As she pressed on, Hengdao below erupted with light once more, screeching against bone as it drove straight into the tiger demon's skull.
Hoo...
Wind Tiger exhaled, his whole body relaxing as he slowly sank into the water, motionless.
Hengdao flew back to Bai Yujun's side with a fluorescent trail. Looking at the enormous tiger corpse as waves lapped