The Three Fiends' Ambition
At the words "Hengshan Three Fiends," the blue-robed man's pupils shrank, and his eyes filled with terror. He more than doubled his escape speed.
Just then, a ghastly Ghostly roar rang out.
The blue-robed man felt his head grow heavy, as if someone had struck him with a blunt object. His escape speed came to a halt.
Several streaks of multicolored light shot out from the island and hurtled toward him.
By the time the blue-robed man came to his senses, the streaks of light were less than fifteen feet away.
Terrified out of his wits, the blue-robed man said nothing. He opened his mouth and spat out a palm-sized Blue Small Shield, which swelled in the wind and circled him in a flurry.
With several muffled thuds, three streaks of black light struck the Blue Shield and were blocked.
The three black streaks were none other than three Black Arrows.
Just then, the space above the blue-robed man's head rippled, and a several-yard-wide Black Ghost Claw appeared without warning and swiped down at him.
Caught completely off guard, the blue-robed man had no time to defend himself. The Ghost Claw pierced his chest, and his body rapidly shriveled into a dried corpse.
The Blue Shield's light dimmed as it shrank back to its original size. It fell from the sky alongside the dried corpse toward the island below. Before long, the black fog above the island slowly dissipated.
A vast cluster of buildings stood on the island, with pavilions, palaces, gardens, and bamboo groves.
Many corpses lay across the spotless streets, their eyes wide open and filled with terror, as if they had witnessed something horrifying before they died.
Some buildings were still engulfed in raging flames. Atop a Green Pavilion stood a Red-robed Daoist