The people present could not help but look toward the source of the voice.
They saw an extraordinary Azure Bird descending gracefully from the horizon, its feathers gleaming with flowing iridescence like Green Jade glazed glass.
Upon the bird's back sat a woman in a plain white gown, cross-legged, her features breathtakingly beautiful. Who else could it be but Xu Min?
"The Demonic Sect still hasn't learned its lesson!"
Xu Min's voice was not loud, yet it rang clearly in everyone's ears.
"A helper from the Tianbao Supreme Sect?" The expert surnamed Wang furrowed his brows, alarm bells blaring in his heart.
Though he could not discern the woman's exact cultivation, anyone capable of commanding such a spiritual bird and appearing at this moment was certainly not someone to be taken lightly.
A powerful sense of unease surged through him. His years of licking blood from the blade's edge told him that the situation had already slipped beyond control, and the urge to retreat instantly arose.
Qiao Lian Zheng, the Demonic Sect's Fourth Elder, felt his heart sink, his expression turning incomparably ugly.
He had painstakingly planned this ambush, using his intelligence advantage to set up a Heavenly Net and Earthly Web. He had thought he could easily capture or kill Chen Qing, this "grand gift," but who could have expected Chen Qing's strength to far exceed his estimates? After a long battle, he still could not bring him down, and now reinforcements had arrived for the other side... Their original advantage had vanished without a trace. They might even be caught in a counter-encirclement.
"Run!"
Qiao Lian Zheng made the decision at once, without the slightest hesitation.
He stomped hard, shattering the reef beneath his feet. His body shot away like a crimson meteor, fleeing madly in the opposite