As if sensing the danger, the divine Hou's pupils suddenly dilated, then abruptly contracted.
With a spread of its wings and a movement of its body, it transformed into an afterimage and dove at Ling Qing, carrying an incomparably sharp killing intent that filled heaven and earth.
Provoked by it, Ling Qing instantly tensed every nerve. At the same time, he activated the Spirit Realm Chief God Edict within him, raising his power to the Great Luo realm.
In an instant, amid the life-and-death killing tribulation, he locked onto the divine Hou's presence.
With a light sweep of the Immortal-Slaying Sword in his hand, he slashed out a strand of Sword Qi.
A flash of cold light swept past, and heaven and earth abruptly froze, as though transformed into a painting.
Within that painting, a young Daoist held a longsword in his hand, poised to strike.
On the other side was a savage beast, its baleful aura filling heaven and earth as it descended from above.
In an instant, a sense of taut swords and drawn bows, of peril hanging by a thread, burst vividly forth.
As the young Daoist swept out his sword, the baleful aura that filled heaven and earth came to an abrupt halt.
Then, a white line appeared upon the savage beast's neck.
In an instant, the beast's eyes filled with terror.
Yet before it could make any move, that streak of white light split open and circled its neck.
With a bang, it turned into ash that filled the sky and vanished.
The baleful aura that had filled heaven and earth also melted away in the blink of an eye, like snowflakes meeting the blazing sun of June.
At the same time, at the instant the divine Hou died, an incomparably condensed trace of Dao