Watching Li Shuyu's hair gradually fade from silver back to jet black, the many powerhouses could not help swallowing hard. Their gazes toward her brimmed with terror. That dreadful sword intent sent a chill racing from their heels straight to the crowns of their heads.
"That was a ninth-level Fusion Realm powerhouse—and a member of the Nine-Headed Phoenix Clan, mutated by the Evil Emperor's power!"
Heaven-and-earth exotic beasts like Feng Xiaotian were innately stronger than ordinary cultivators. With the value of his clan's bloodline and the Evil Emperor's power on top of that, he had now been reduced to ashes?
One had to know that Li Shuyu's true cultivation was merely at the seventh level of the Fusion Realm. How was this possible?
Sensing the shocked gazes filling the skies, Li Shuyu calmly swept her eyes across the surroundings. Empowered by the Panic Gu, she had felt true Eternal Sword Intent. That tyrannical power was precisely what she sought at this stage.
And the reason she had unleashed her full strength from the very beginning was entirely because of Bai Yu.
She wanted to establish Bai Yu's prestige!
According to the original plan, with Shu Lichuo around, Bai Yu could have remained hidden in the shadows until the very end. But now that he had to act on his own, absolute strength was the best means of intimidating every shortsighted little rat who failed to know their place.
Li Shuyu knew full well that most people bullied the weak and feared the strong. The foul miasma of this world was simply too heavy as well; given the chance, many would gamble on even the faintest possibility. She could not allow such minute variables to appear around Bai Yu.
Thus, killing Feng Xiaotian with a thunderous strike had been entirely deliberate.