Hundreds of narrow Wind Blades swept down from above.
"Get over here!"
The Middle-aged Man opened the Treasure Umbrella. Before his words had even settled, the old woman from the Murong Family, the Elder Yelü, and the Red-bearded Elder from the Tuoba Family had all taken shelter beneath the canopy.
The four worked together seamlessly, clearly having coordinated with one another for years.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
The canopy was extraordinarily supple. The ringing, buzzing Wind Blades fell from every angle, yet nearly all of them slid off its surface without causing the four any harm.
Lu Yang reacted a beat too slowly. With no canopy to shield him, he was already singled out as the giant bird's first target.
"Damn it, it's the Azure Phoenix Divine Sparrow!" the Red-bearded Elder said gloomily. "Shouldn't that mad bird be asleep in its nest at this hour? Why did it suddenly show up?"
"What good is it to talk about that now?" Elder Yelü said. "Our urgent task is to deal with the beast!"
The old woman's gaze fell on Lu Yang in the distance. "That mad bird has its eye on him. Young Lu is in danger!"
Before the old woman had finished speaking, the Azure Phoenix Divine Sparrow spread its enormous wings, spanning hundreds of zhang, high above them. As it beat them, more than a dozen violent storms came sweeping toward them.
The storms suddenly erupted, and the Middle-aged Man holding the umbrella abruptly felt an incomparably immense pressure.
"What?"
The Middle-aged Man's face turned deathly pale.
In an instant, he realized in horror that he had lost his connection to the great umbrella in his hand.
His Spiritual Sense control had been severed, and the defensive power of the High-grade Saint Weapon in his hand had plunged by two-thirds.
The moment