The battlefield was in chaos.
Everyone was fighting.
Everyone except Baili Bubai. He was getting beaten.
"Father!!!"
Baili Bubai wailed.
Stop looking at everyone else.
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me!!!
Come save me!
But Baili Wudi clearly hadn't heard Baili Bubai's cries.
Or perhaps...
It was already too late.
Bright Moon Clear Radiance. Moon Blade cut to the bone.
Flying Immortal Beyond the Heavens. A sword struck from above.
Under the bright moon, the Sword Light was cold and impossibly swift.
The sword descended, and Baili Bubai tried to flee.
But with Luoshan and Li Zizai pressing him from both sides, he couldn't escape. All he could do was watch the Moon Blade fall.
I'm finished!
Baili Bubai closed his eyes in despair.
But then...
"Ah!"
The sword struck, bringing excruciating pain.
But...
Pain?
I'm not dead?!
Baili Bubai opened his eyes in shock. His right arm had been severed at the shoulder, blood gushing from the wound.
Yet a force enveloped the blood in midair. It evaporated and vanished in an instant, without a single drop reaching the ground.
The agony of his severed arm remained, cutting into his very bones.
But...
His first reaction wasn't anger. It was elation.
I'm... I'm alive?!
Faced with death, losing an arm seemed trivial.
Had Xiao Zhuyue missed?
Before Baili Bubai could make sense of it, a gleaming sword was already at his throat.
"Baili Wudi, stop!!"
Xiao Zhuyue shouted, staring Baili Wudi down.
"Baili Wudi, your son is in my hands! If you want him alive, let us leave!"
That last strike hadn't missed. Xiao Zhuyue had deliberately spared Baili Bubai.
It was the plan they had secretly agreed on earlier.
Baili Wudi was a War God of the Ninth Heaven. Even with Shen Dai's breakthrough, and