At this moment, everyone inside Lishui Commandery City had been nailed in place by Su Fan's world-shaking sword strike. One by one, they stared dumbfounded, having even forgotten to slow their breathing.
Especially the old Daoist. Although he was merely a low-level Qi Refining cultivator, he had ultimately set foot on the path of cultivation and understood the terror of that sword far better than any mortal.
A monstrous storm surged through his heart. If that sword had truly descended, the entire Lishui Commandery City would probably have been reduced to ashes by the Sword Qi, without leaving behind even the slightest trace.
At this moment, the strange crimson starry sky above the commandery city was fading at a speed visible to the naked eye, growing thinner bit by bit.
The scarlet vortex at the center of the blood-red firmament was even more like it had been seized by an invisible hand. It contracted in circles, shrinking smaller and smaller, and looked ready to dissipate.
The answer was already clear to everyone who witnessed this scene. The immortal suspended in the sky had just defeated the Foreign Demonic Being that had descended.
The catastrophe hanging over Lishui Commandery City had finally been avoided.
"Whoosh..."
As a sound tore through the air, the immortal's figure suspended above the commandery city abruptly vanished.
The people inside the city only caught sight of an almost imperceptible streak of lightning. Like a shooting star, it swept across the sky and plunged precisely into the blood-colored vortex that was about to finish contracting, leaving not even an afterimage behind.
The old Daoist rubbed his eyes, his face full of disbelief.
That immortal had actually charged straight into the vortex that was still slowly rotating and contracting in the sky.
A moment later, the blood-colored vortex