"Damn it!" The Black Canopy Baleful Lord hadn't expected Lu Xiaotian to have this in mind. Although more than a dozen skeletal, snake-bodied demons were closing in behind him, they certainly weren't coming to save him. And before they arrived, he would have to withstand the attacks of all four people in front of him alone. Lu Xiaotian by himself was already this difficult to deal with; now there were three more experts on top of that. The Black Canopy Baleful Lord didn't dare imagine what would become of him.
"Stop! If you kill me, you'll never leave this place." The Black Canopy Baleful Lord finally began to panic.
"You needn't worry about that." Lu Xiaotian's lips curled. Ye Ziyu, Baili Fei, and Fu Yu attacked at the same time.
Hiss, hiss! The Black Canopy Baleful Lord's incredibly powerful black cloak couldn't bear the strain. Countless streams of Sword Qi slashed it to shreds. Whoosh! Seizing the opportunity, one of the flying swords controlled by Lu Xiaotian flashed past the Black Canopy Baleful Lord's neck. His fine head sprang into the air, spraying a great gout of blood.
But the Black Canopy Baleful Lord's Primordial Spirit was astonishingly quick. It darted straight into the deep-purple wooden fish and fled more than a hundred zhang in the blink of an eye.
Lu Xiaotian was just about to seize it when the pure-white Seven-Petaled Shijia Flower burst from its bud, emerging from decay without a stain, holy and far-reaching.
At once, several nearby skeletal, snake-bodied demons abandoned Lu Xiaotian and the others and lunged toward the Seven-Petaled Shijia Flower, biting at it.
Lu Xiaotian frowned and glanced at the deep-purple wooden fish about to disappear. He gave up on the Black Canopy Baleful Lord's Primordial Spirit, flashed forward, and closed in on