"Boom!"
Miserable lightning rampaged through the air, forming pale, branch-like arcs that shredded the illusory sea of clouds and rainbow mist around it. Amid it all came wild laughter and the roar of a gigantic tiger.
Sensing the Aether Torrent continuously surging out from above, Samael snapped out of his inward grumbling, his face filled with astonishment.
Damn, how long had they been in there? That guy had already started fighting?
Then, seeing the Kunlun Heavenly Gate within the clouds shaking violently and beginning to flicker in and out of existence, Samael picked up little Yang Guifei behind him and made a swift decision.
"The Heavenly Gate is closing. I'll clear the way—move!"
At the concise warning, twelve serpentine wings spread wide and beat fiercely.
The black figure became a dark streak of light, drilling straight through the raging Aether Storm pouring across the heavens and charging toward the increasingly translucent Kunlun Heavenly Gate.
Hinako Akuta reacted a moment later, her expression hardening as her fingers formed hand seals and her lips moved in a low chant.
"Blood Curse Corpse Dissolution, Feather Transformation Ascension!"
At once, her alluring figure dissolved into countless dark-red petals. Following close behind Samael, they rode the wind upward and drifted into the Kunlun Heavenly Gate.
The cunning Tamamo no Mae deliberately lagged behind, widening the distance.
Only after the three vanguards had completely vanished into that immortal realm of clouds did she unfurl six luminous fox tails and begin to chant softly.
"Thunder Sky Sunlight, Calamity Sound Starfall..."
Moments later, a Crimson Fiery Star brimming with calamity and radiating ominous energy dragged a long trail of red-black flame through the clouds, falling toward the open gate of Kunlun Wonderland.
As her body passed through the Heavenly Gate as though piercing a membrane of water, she