Duan Rui's mind was almost completely blank. This unprecedented, unimaginable experience gave the Hundred Deficiencies Heavenly Demon, who in recent years had been enough to keep children from crying at night, a familiar yet strange sense of weakness. It was just like when he was young and faced Mad Saber Su Meng: no matter what he did, he couldn't beat him or get away from him, until the Demon Master intervened and he finally managed to escape.
Just moments ago, he'd been looking at Brocade Rogue Expert Shao Changge and Joyful Bodhisattva's successor, Ying Ning, with an endless sea of green grass before him, where the wind bent the grass and cattle and sheep appeared. Now there was a gray-robed, emaciated monk, a frail young lord, and a sword-wielding immortal maiden. There was the mighty river flowing east, and iron chains stretched across its waters. Southern Sky and Northern Land—one instant, one moment, and he'd found himself in a different world?
On the grasslands, Shao Changge and Ying Ning stood rooted in place, staring wide-eyed at the spot where Duan Rui had vanished. Their mouths slowly fell open, but no sound came out.
What had just happened?
A hand had suddenly appeared in the void and snatched away the Hundred Deficiencies Heavenly Demon. As it flickered, its aura had leaked out, and the scene on the other side had appeared indistinctly, somehow familiar!
After a few breaths, Shao Changge's pupils suddenly contracted. He cried out:
"Mad Saber!"
Mad Saber Su Meng!
He could never mistake that familiar aura. Though he'd never met Mad Saber, his young lady had once kept an Orifice Opening thunder saber called Evil Tribulation, often handling it for amusement, until she destroyed it after returning from the Nine Heavens. Its original owner had been Su Meng,