Lu Xiaotian suddenly looked up, only to see a giant blade that reached the heavens descending from above his head. The invisible figure from earlier was now standing on empty air, a hundred zhang tall. His body looked as transparent as a bubble and nothing like an ordinary human. With that single slash, he seemed to have drawn up nearly all the starlight gathered like water within the canyon.
That slash caused the entire starry sky to lose its color. The winds and clouds of heaven and earth were stirred. Yan Xiaoyu and the other juniors were so terrified that their souls nearly fled their bodies. The blade light seemed to merge with heaven and earth, leaving no flaw to exploit.
Even Lu Xiaotian felt a tremor rise from the depths of his heart when he saw the descending blade light.
"What exactly is that invisible monster?" Lu Xiaotian could no longer fully protect Yan Xiaoyu and the others. He reached out and shoved them away, sending them a little farther. Under such circumstances, even Lu Xiaotian could no longer look after all three of them.
The blade light came down and struck empty air. When Lu Xiaotian appeared again, his body had already collapsed into fragments and transformed into a flying sword. Yan Xiaoyu, meanwhile, had been pushed to another location.
Although he was carrying Yan Xiaoyu and the other two, there were still degrees of closeness between them in Lu Xiaotian's eyes. In terms of friendship, Yan Xiaoyu was naturally the most reliable. In terms of usefulness, however, Mo Yuyan was still the one who served him best for the moment.
Lan Xuan qualified on neither count. With the situation so dire, Lu Xiaotian had naturally treated him as the first expendable piece.
When that astonishing blade light