Sword danced gracefully, skirts fluttered, sword shadows intertwined and dazzled the eye, yet carried a distinctive rhythm.
As Xiao Bai watched for the perfect chance to stab Di Tian, she frantically sent Voice Transmissions to the Sea Princess with her Spiritual Power.
Once or twice would have been one thing, but she repeated it again and again. Did she really think the Sea Soul Beasts present were blind?
Demon Soul Great White Shark Xiao Bai's intentions had long become common knowledge, but since Di Tian, the master of this place, had not spoken, the many Sea Soul Beasts did not dare overstep their bounds.
At Di Tian's side, Lan Fozi reined in her sorrowful emotions, her bright eyes rolling thoughtfully.
She immediately rose to her feet and declared loudly:
"One person dancing with a sword is rather monotonous. Though Lan Fozi is unskilled, I am willing to join the dance."
Having spoken, she looked at Di Tian and waited only for his approval.
At the scene, Di Tian was more or less the only one still interested in appreciating the sword dance.
Thus, he clapped his hands and readily agreed:
"Good."
Having received permission, Lan Fozi could not help but feel delighted. It truly was not easy to act outside the arena, but inside...
It was a sword dance, after all. People could make mistakes, beasts could stumble, and blades had no eyes. Even if she made the mistake of stabbing Xiao Bai full of a hundred transparent holes, it would still be understandable.
A flash of soul light shone from the Soul Guidance Storage Ring on her fingertip, and a deep-blue longsword shot forth.
Its blue was deeper and richer than that of the divine sword in Xiao Bai's hand. It measured four chi and three cun in length, its blade covered in diamond-shaped dark patterns. Its edge was as smooth as a mirror, while its spine stood sharp and distinct.
Its entire body was steeped in deep blue, evoking a profound, abyssal feeling.
Over the years, she had occasionally traveled through the human world, so naturally she possessed no shortage of human items. This azure longsword was a top-grade Level 9 Soul Guidance Device.
Since she was going to accidentally stab someone full of transparent holes, the sharper the sword, the better.
She leaped toward Xiao Bai, who was still dancing with her sword, her tight-fitting clothes snapping in the wind rushing against her.
The clang of weapons colliding rang out without end.
The "sword dance" of Lan Fozi, the "dancing girl," could be said to strike at vital points with every move. She showed no mercy whatsoever.
Though kind-hearted, she was not foolish. Moreover, she was a member of the Anti-Sea God Faction and bore deep enmity toward Xiao Bai of the Sea God Faction. There was absolutely no possibility that she would hold back.
Although her cultivation was far inferior to Demon Soul Great White Shark Xiao Bai's, Xiao Bai's mind was presently in turmoil. She had to use her Spiritual Power to contact the Sea Princess through Voice Transmission while also seeking a chance to assassinate Di Tian. In reality, she was firmly suppressed by Lan Fozi.
There was only one difference: whenever the two blue longswords collided, a small notch would be carved into Lan Fozi's Level 9 Soul Guidance Device sword.
Even a Level 9 Soul Guidance Device was ultimately a mortal weapon, fundamentally incapable of rivaling a divine weapon.
Of course, that changed abruptly after Di Tian flicked a finger.
Black light suddenly blazed from the sword in Lan Fozi's hand, which was covered in notches. The gaps were instantly restored, and the blade became sharp once more, its entire body turning pitch-black, as though reflecting a hellish purgatory.
With the assistance of this imitation Black Dragon Sword, Lan Fozi's firm suppression of Xiao Bai became absolute suppression.
Di Tian's exclusive soul skill, the Profound Meaning Black Dragon Sword, was displayed without the slightest concealment, and naturally did not escape the Sea Princess's notice.
How could she not understand what Di Tian meant by revealing the Black Dragon Sword so openly?
He was clearly using Demon Soul Great White Shark Xiao Bai's life and death to urge her into making a choice.
Staring fixedly at Xiao Bai, who was being forced back step by step, unease flickered in the Sea Princess's eyes.
Yet among the Sea Princess, Xiao Bai, and Di Tian, the first to lose patience was unexpectedly Demon Soul Great White Shark Xiao Bai!
"Pfft—"
After repeatedly failing to contact the Sea Princess through Voice Transmission, Xiao Bai decided she could wait no longer. The arrow was on the string; she had no choice but to fire.
After assassinating Di Tian, she could still shout "Jointly Eliminate Him" at the Sea Princess and drag her into it. At that point, even if the Sea Princess did not want to act, she would have no choice.
Immediately afterward, Xiao Bai deliberately exposed an opening, allowing the Black Dragon Sword in Lan Fozi's hand to pierce a nonfatal wound.
"Whoosh—"
In an instant, she drew upon every ounce of strength in her body and fiercely hurled the divine longsword in her hand at Di Tian, who sat calmly to one side.
At this critical moment, the second person to move was still not Di Tian, but the Sea Princess.
Her expression changed drastically. A golden Mermaid Tear instantly shot from the tear gland at the corner of her eye, transforming into a Golden Shuttle that streaked through the air with a golden tail, crashing toward the divine longsword at maximum speed.
In her heart, she cursed Xiao Bai's ancestors for eighteen generations thousands upon thousands of times.
Fortunately, the Merfolk Race's palace was her territory, and the palace itself possessed a certain degree of offensive and defensive capability. Even in her distracted state, it could assist her in sensing every minute movement of every person within the hall.
Otherwise, she truly might have fallen into Xiao Bai's trap today and been dragged into this mess by her.
Of course, she had intercepted the longsword not because she feared that the divine weapon would injure Di Tian.
Although all the Sea Soul Beasts had witnessed her previous battle against Di Tian in the Deep Sea Domain, their cultivation was weak and their horizons narrow. Seeing the gap between her and Di Tian was like a frog at the bottom of a well gazing at the moon. Only if they were fortunate enough one day to reach the cultivation of Yin-Yang Complement Dual Soul Cores, as she had, would they understand that the difference between her and Di Tian was like that between a mayfly and the boundless sky.
The divine longsword might be capable of injuring her, but it absolutely could not injure Di Tian. No one understood better than she did just how hard Di Tian's True Dragon body was.
The reason she had intercepted the divine longsword was merely because she did not wish to be dragged into this by Xiao Bai. If Di Tian, the leader of the soul beast race, was attacked inside the Merfolk Race's palace while she, the Sea Princess and host, remained unmoved, she did not even dare imagine the terrifying consequences.
At this moment, Di Tian still sat calmly and composedly, utterly unconcerned with the divine longsword hurtling toward him. He did not even seem to intend to lift a hand.
That was what all the Sea Soul Beasts present saw. In truth, Di Tian had already acted, but no one could see or sense it.
In the instant before the divine longsword and the Golden Shuttle formed from the Mermaid Tear collided, the Sea Princess's heart suddenly pounded violently. Her vision blurred, and her mind spun.
When clarity returned to her consciousness, the scene before her was already vastly different from what she remembered, transformed beyond recognition.
The Golden Shuttle formed from the Mermaid Tear had not flown toward the divine longsword. Instead, it had shot toward Demon Soul Great White Shark Xiao Bai, striking directly between her brows and piercing out through the back of her head.
In Xiao Bai's lifeless pupils flickered an incredulous look of shock.
She had never imagined that the Sea Princess, her beloved friend and sister, would not only refuse to help her but would even kill her herself!
Why? Was it because she had tried to forcibly drag the other party into this?
Beneath her confusion was fury. She seemed to see a beautiful future in which the Sea God returned from the God Realm, descended upon the world, flayed and tortured the Sea Princess before burning her alive, then resurrected her.
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