Yang Ren also wielded the Five-Fire Seven-Bird Fan, fanning up raging flames and black smoke that stretched a thousand zhang, blotting out the sky.
Tian Ying, meanwhile, transformed the Heavenly Sound Sword Orbs into nine instruments—bells, chimes, qins, ses, flutes, pellet drums, drums, wooden clappers, and more—and danced gracefully amid the sea of fire and choking smoke.
Before long, the flames took the form of a phoenix dancing in graceful flight, sheltering her within its embrace.
The smoke likewise twisted into all manner of birds, circling the phoenix in dance.
Yet beneath this breathtaking spectacle lay killing intent.
The true fire came scorching in, only to be seized by Tian Ying's sword heart and qin melodies, transforming into myriad birds that danced through the air and, without warning, slashed toward Yang Ren.
But the eyes in Yang Ren's palms could look up to the Heavenly Court, gaze down into earth caverns, and discern every affair of the mortal realm.
Though the transformations of Tian Ying's swordsmanship were wondrous, they could not deceive him.
The third-generation disciples of the Clarifying Sect and Interception Sect fought in pairs. Though Yang Jian, Nezha, and the others were all extraordinary, they ultimately suffered from their still-shallow cultivation.
Daoist Lingguan, Li Li, Zhu Guang, and the others had not only undergone countless trials in the mortal world and amassed endless magical treasures.
Their combat experience alone, accumulated during the Great War of the Witches and Demons, was beyond anything the current third-generation disciples of the Clarifying Sect could match.
Still, Daoist Lingguan and his group numbered only five. They could hold off Yang Jian and the others, but not Jiang Ziya, who led the immortals of the Three Mountains and Five Peaks.
This time, in addition to the second- and third-generation disciples of the Clarifying