The Guanyin Bi

In a flash, it all happened too suddenly. The woman in white burst out of the side room. Xu Yi was overjoyed, certain Xia Zimo had heard his voice and come chasing after him.

Who could have known that the woman in white would rush straight toward Beichen, throwing herself in front of the silver orb?

Even with all his boundless wit, Xu Yi could do nothing to save her. When he saw clearly that the woman in white was indeed Xia Zimo, the blood spraying from her mouth seemed to turn into blades and pierce his heart.

He had only just reached her when Xia Zimo cried, "Bad man, don't hurt my Brother Chen!"

Her cry rang out like a thunderclap, crashing down on Xu Yi's head. He stood dazed, his mind buzzing, unable to recover for a long while. Then Jiuru summoned a cloud of energy and struck him in the back, sending him flying while he was off guard. He spat blood without stopping.

He planted a hand against the half-wall on the north side and swayed aside, dodging Jiuru's next killing blow. A Top-grade Essence Restoration Pill, wrapped in a faint trace of baleful energy, shot straight into Xia Zimo's mouth. He turned and glared at Jiuru, who was still attacking relentlessly, and roared like a clap of thunder, "Jiuru, you really think I can't kill you?" His eyes instantly became a bottomless abyss, boundless deathly energy bubbling out of them.

Jiuru's heart quailed. He muttered, "What kind of fiend is this?" But the attacks in his hands had stopped.

Against such a vicious man, he truly had no answer.

Ever since he had mastered the Duoluo Cloud Tribulation, he had sat securely as the greatest expert below the Soul Sensing Realm in the northern lands,