In a clearing overgrown with weeds, a man and a woman were locked in fierce combat with a strange beast with a deer's head and a horse's body, driving several gleaming magical artifacts against it.
The beast had three eyes and was covered in yellow scales the size of palms. It looked quite bizarre.
The man looked to be in his early thirties. He wore a blue scholar's robe and had an air of bookish refinement. The woman wore a water green silk dress and was tall, with ordinary features.
"Roar!"
With a strange roar, yellow light blazed across the beast's body, and it charged rapidly toward the Middle-aged Scholar.
"Not good! Stop it, quickly!" The Middle-aged Scholar's face changed, and he hurriedly shouted.
He formed a hand seal with one hand. Three hazy blue short blades spun around and slashed toward the beast.
At the same time, the woman in the green dress controlled five Green Small Swords and sent them slashing toward the beast.
With another strange roar, a sheet of yellow radiance shot from the beast's third eye, enveloping the three blue short blades and the five Green Small Swords.
An astonishing sight unfolded: the three blue short blades and five Green Small Swords petrified at a visible pace, fell from midair, and shattered on the ground.
Seeing this, the two stared in stunned disbelief.
Before they could react, the beast had already charged right up to them.
The woman in the green dress hurriedly produced a Green Bead the size of an egg. It swelled with the wind into a Green Light Screen about ten feet across, shielding them both inside.
A burst of Five-Colored Spirit Light illuminated the beast's two antlers as it crashed into the Green Light Screen.
The Green Light Screen was like