"Bastard!" When he saw the Boundless Black Lotus in full bloom, Wuyu Fire Salamander's heart sank to the bottom. These methods alone naturally couldn't hold him back completely, but the situation was already perilous. Even the slightest delay could bring about an even more uncontrollable turn of events.
Lu Xiaotian's interception was indeed causing him immense trouble.
"Break!" In his fury, Wuyu Fire Salamander opened his mouth and spat out a blue-white demonic blade. Wrapped in the flames of desire, it slashed toward the Boundless Black Lotus, trailing afterimages.
The Boundless Black Lotus was pitch-black from top to bottom. Some of its petals detached on their own and floated upward from below. They looked incredibly light and soft, yet when they clashed with the blue-white demonic blade, they carried an inexplicable weight.
As the blue-white demonic blade continued to strike them, the fluttering lotus petals began to develop gaps of varying sizes.
Lu Xiaotian drew a breath. As one of the secret Buddhist sect's ancestral cultivation arts, the Boundless Black Lotus was itself even more formidable than the blue-white demonic blade.
But Lu Xiaotian's cultivation of his Law Body and his foundation were far shallower than Wuyu Fire Salamander's. Given the enormous gap in their strength, it was simply unrealistic to expect him to hold Wuyu Fire Salamander back completely.
With a bang, the black petals began to crumble after repeated collisions. The blue-white demonic blade came down in a single slash, splitting the battered Boundless Black Lotus in two.
Meanwhile, the enormous Eight Trigrams formations in the sky and on the ground shone in tandem. Purple ice beams shot up from the earth as bloody light rained down from above. Vast quantities of gray sand were frozen in midair, and even the foul Immortal Pot's terrifying, frenzied aura was