Moreover, Lu Xiaotian approached too quickly at that moment, while Qin Runan, the strongest among them, was busy chasing the pill spirit. She simply had no time to rescue him, and the others lacked the strength to relieve the besieged by attacking the besieger.
"Stop!" Yan Jiu cried out sharply. Although Lu Xiaotian, as the deputy pavilion master of the Alchemy Pavilion in Guiling Immortal Realm, held a status no lower than anyone present—including Qin Gang and Qin Runan—she, as an enforcement officer of the Heavenly Punishment Palace, could not simply ignore the current situation. This was true even though the strength of Lu Xiaotian, Qin Gang, and Qin Runan was not inferior to her own.
Judging by the present circumstances, Yan Jiu naturally leaned toward Lu Xiaotian. After all, she had also caught wind of Lu Xiaotian's entanglement with the Zhen lineage. The reason for the clash between the two sides when a pill spirit appeared in such a scenario went without saying.
However, the fierce fight between Qin Gang and Lu Xiaotian had already grown too late to stop. Yan Jiu waved her hand, and the six green-swallow celestial demons behind her pulled back their bows and notched their arrows. Countless arrows transformed into individual flying swallows in the void, moving with incredible agility to intercept the Qin family or several other Profound Immortals allied with them, preventing them from swarming Lu Xiaotian.
"Haha, Fellow Daoist Dongfang! I am much obliged that you still remember this old man, and I have come to lend you a hand!" The lion-maned elder soared into the air, a green lion avatar roaring from behind him as it lunged at a short, stocky man nearby.
"Where did this lowly nobody come from, daring to strike against my Qin family!" The short, stocky