Yang Jian's three eyes blazed. The spiritual radiance of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art burned around him as his spear stretched across the sky. With mountainlike might, he blocked Yin Hong head-on, leaving him no opening to advance:
"Yin Hong! This ambush and execution are ordained by the Heavenly Dao. Would you defy heaven to save him?"
On the other flank, Deng Chanyu stood poised and valiant, the Five-Colored Stone concealed in her palm. Immortal power condensed around her as she firmly sealed off Yin Hong's retreat to the side.
She knew how profound Yin Hong's Dao power was and how treacherous and troublesome the Yin Yang Mirror could be. Not daring to underestimate him, she remained fully alert, ready to use the Five-Colored Stone to disrupt his Dao arts and throw his mirror light into disarray.
One held the front with overwhelming Dao power, barring his advance; the other kept him in check from the flank, waiting for a chance to break his arts!
Yin Hong drove the Yin Yang Mirror with all his might. Mirror light wheeled through the air, Yin Yang surging chaotically. He tried several times to force his way through, only to be firmly stopped by Yang Jian's spear.
The Eight-Nine Arcane Art granted an invincible body and immense Dao power. Yang Jian endured the surging Yin Yang Dao resonance head-on without budging.
Deng Chanyu was even quicker to react. Whenever mirror light struck, she flung out five-colored stone fragments. Colored radiance scattered through the air, precisely disrupting the circulation of Yin Yang within the mirror, breaking his escape arts and denying him any chance to make the rescue.
The two worked in perfect harmony, one defending and the other disrupting, sealing off every route Yin Hong could take to save Ma Yuan!
Though Yin Hong's