At that moment, seeing the two Snakes of Destruction open their savage jaws and swallow them whole, not only Bai Suxian—even the people in the distance broke out in a cold sweat for Zhang Tie.
Yet Zhang Tie calmly watched the two Snakes of Destruction. I remain unmoved like a mountain, and there even seemed to be a faint smile on his face.
Just as the Snakes of Destruction were only a few meters away from Zhang Tie, their mouths suddenly snapped shut. They swept past Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian, grazing their clothes as a fierce gust sent Bai Suxian's long skirt fluttering.
The Snakes of Destruction that had rushed past Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian turned and swam back through the air, but instead of attacking Zhang Tie again, they began circling around him.
At the same time, the several thousand puppet battle dolls that had been fighting the knights also stopped at once. They merely flew around the knights in the air, making no further moves. The grotto-heaven, where Battle Qi had run rampant just moments ago, instantly became calm and still.
Everyone was stunned.
"Alas..." A long sigh suddenly rang out within the Great Wilderness Grotto-Heaven. The sigh was not loud, yet it was as clear as though it had sounded beside every knight's ear. The ordinary knights were baffled, while the expressions of the several Sky Knights changed drastically. As Sky Knights, they had the most direct sense of the power contained within that sigh.
Amid that sigh, a figure appeared in the sky beneath the dome above everyone's heads, like an illusory bubble in a dream, or a figure being touched up beneath a painter's brush. It slowly emerged from faint to distinct, as though it had stepped across from another time and space.