RUMBLE—!!
The Ruyi Jingu Bang smashed down from above and collided with the Sky Piercer Lü Bu held aloft one-handed. Amid a continuous earth-shaking roar, purple and crimson flames surged, swept outward, and raged across the steep slope. In an instant, shattered stones flew everywhere, and the very sky seemed to change color.
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, who had rushed forward, were also swallowed by the intertwined crimson and purple inferno. Dragon roars, horse whinnies, and the three men's forceful shouts as they gathered their breath merged into utter chaos. Now, alongside the purple and crimson, there were green, black, and another shade of purple.
Qian Qianqian, Murong Yan, Zeng Fei, and the others stared fixedly at the slope, not daring to blink. Their hearts had risen into their throats.
Then, no one knew what happened, but the mass of four-colored flames suddenly contracted before expanding again and exploding with a thunderous boom. Several figures shot out from within it.
Yin Kuang was one of them.
Driven by the blast, he rolled more than twenty meters down the slope before planting the As-You-Will Staff into the ground and stopping himself. Liu Bei was also flung away, tumbling all the way down the incline until he struck a pine trunk and came to a halt, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei remained mounted, yet they too were forced to slide down the slope for quite a distance before finally steadying themselves.
And the last person hurled away was none other than Emperor Xian, Liu Xie!
Liu Xie's delicate, frail body flew through the air, rolled a few times, and then tumbled down the steep slope. He remained curled up the entire time, as though protecting something in his arms. In the blink of