While attacking, the Four Saints had also prepared their defenses.
Laozi had the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda above his head, hanging down ten thousand streams of Xuanhuang Qi to shield his body as he charged straight toward the Xian Xian Sword.
All Heavens Celebrating Clouds, golden lamps, and jeweled tassels sheltered Yuanshi as he rushed toward the Zhuxian Sword.
Nüwa trod on the Mountains and Rivers State Chart, and the illusory world it transformed into drifted toward the Jue Xian Sword.
Jieyin stood upon the Twelve Grade Merit Golden Lotus, three Sarira beads hovering as he flew toward the Lu Xian Sword.
The Four Saints each displayed their own methods, intending to seize the chance while Tongtian was jointly suppressed and found it difficult to attend to anything else, and forcefully pluck away the Four Swords of Zhuxian hanging above the four gates.
Tongtian Sect Master was caught in the siege of the four great Saints' Spirit Treasures.
He only felt his entire body turn sluggish and strained, while the power fed back to him by the Zhuxian Sword Formation was also greatly weakened.
The crucial prelude to breaking the formation—Tongtian's thoughts spun at lightning speed.
Faced with the Four Saints' prepared seizure, keeping all four swords safe at the same time was absolutely impossible.
To clash head-on with Laozi and Yuanshi, who possessed supreme-treasure-level defenses, offered no winning odds at all.
Nüwa's relationship with Bei Ming was far from shallow, and after the battle, he would still have to cooperate with the Literary Sect.
Only by striking at Jieyin was there a thread of opportunity—to at least preserve one sword, and even retrieve the formation diagram.
"Yuanshi! Die!"
Tongtian ignored the other Spirit Treasures attacking him. The sword light of the Qingping Sword swelled explosively, gathering the