The Ice Demon Bat Queen was slipperier than a loach. Once she fled, Lu Xiaotian couldn't catch up. And with Ye Ziyu having to face two opponents on her own, the seven-fusion ape-headed beast was already showing signs of weakness. Lu Xiaotian abandoned his pursuit of the Ice Demon Bat Queen and raised a hand. The Misty Flying Sword transformed into a streak of light and slashed toward the man-eating demon cicada.
The Ice Demon Bat Queen had fled, the Shadow Demon had been killed, and even the green-robed, white-bearded old man's ghastly green skeleton had been destroyed by Lu Xiaotian. How could the man-eating demon cicada and the old man still have the slightest will to fight? The Ice Demon Bat Queen had retreated at great speed, and the man-eating demon cicada was no slower. Its body trembled, and it transformed into a streak of light, breaking free of the rainbow's suction and darting away. The thing caught in the rainbow was only an empty cicada shell.
"Another golden cicada shedding its shell." Lu Xiaotian's flying sword cleaved the empty shell apart, and he couldn't help frowning. Judging from the man-eating demon cicada's momentum as it fled, the price it had paid didn't seem all that great. It looked like the cicada hadn't been idle all these years; it had honed this escape technique to ever greater perfection.
But the man-eating demon cicada's swift retreat was bad news for the green-robed, white-bearded old man. With a lift of Lu Xiaotian's hand, the Fangtian Halberd had already cut off the old man's escape route. The old man's Riftspace Flying Sword was even sharper than the Misty Flying Sword, but it still couldn't do anything to Lu Xiaotian's Fangtian Halberd, forged from Devouring Crystal. The old man fought back desperately, unleashing