Just as Candle Dragon King's tail-end notes faded, the biting sword qi that had slain two great demons, forced back four, and more importantly, severely wounded Zhuyang, drifted and dissipated in the smoke. That lean figure stopped, walking right before Madam Xia and blocking Candle Dragon King's path.
In that very instant, Candle Dragon King, who had already accelerated his steps, halted abruptly. The alternating light and dark phenomena of flowing time dispersed all at once.
Before his feet lay one of his subordinates who had collapsed to the ground. Though the subordinate still breathed faintly, the spiritual awareness cultivated through several tribulations had already been wiped out by a single sword strike. Even alive, he was merely a "living corpse"... perhaps "living demon" was more apt. Such was the wonder of the Future Star Tribulation Scripture, causing a great demon's spirit to be destroyed while its human form remained intact, without revealing its true nature.
"Blowing out the lamps and snapping the candles, dying a clean death. These children of mine have been looked after by Island Master Ye!"
The muffled voice sounded as though it came from an iron box, then shifted into a high-pitched laugh:
"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. This little bird is truly lovely!"
At that moment, Yu Ci's thought was:
Playing this trick again!
He remembered back at Donghua Mountain, how Ye Bin had pulled off this wonderful act of "a great transformation with a living person," swapping identities with her own disciple to enter the Donghua Void, severely wounding Tai'a Mohan with a single sword, shattering the heavenly and demonic tribulations, and attaining the position of sword immortal.
More than a decade later, the same person, the same routine—Yu Ci wondered how he could still have been completely