"Father!"
Qi Jingyun, who stood to one side, snapped awake. With an angry roar, he too made to attack Qi Wansu.
Though he had seized the timing well and Lu Feng's sword momentum could no longer circle back to strike at him, he had overlooked one thing.
Qi Wansu was not weak either!
With her old injuries nearly healed, she had already been approaching the Heaven Soul Realm in recent days. Now that she had broken free, she was certainly not someone an Earth Soul Realm soulmaster like Qi Jingyun could threaten.
"Get lost!" Qi Wansu shouted furiously and drove a fierce kick into Qi Jingyun's chest, shattering his breastbone and driving it into his organs. He staggered and fell away, blood streaming continuously from his mouth and nose.
If everything before had merely left her utterly disappointed and chilled to the heart by the Qi Family, then Qi Gutong and Qi Jingyun joining Azure Frost Hall in a sneak attack, using her to coerce Lu Feng, had completely transformed that chill into hatred.
When she kicked Qi Jingyun away, she had truly intended to kill.
The situation fell into a brief stalemate.
The Cold River Thirteen Forts gathered on the left, while Azure Frost Hall's vice hall master and seven or eight elders stood guard on the right. Every one of them watched Lu Feng with hostile eyes.
"Old Fifth," Shi Rili asked Zhou Wangtian, the First Fort Master, in a low voice, "is the array ready?"
Feeling the numerous corpses inside his storage artifact, Zhou Wangtian said coldly, "Buy me half an incense stick's time. Taking him down will be no trouble."
As he spoke, an obscure aura slowly spread from his body, and a layered, endlessly coiling array formation quietly condensed.
Several Heaven Soul Realm corpses were