Hearing the Xuanhuang Pagoda's warning, Li Changshou's mind tightened as his immortal awareness caught a faint disturbance in heaven and earth...
—Heaven and earth referred to the world or the two opposing poles of yin and yang; in the Primordial Wilderness, it was often extended to mean "space."
Above the sea surface, invisibly!
It was as though a blade were closing in on their "group of four" at terrifying speed!
"Watch out!"
With a shout from Li Changshou, the four figures atop the clouds shot forward. The three Heavenly Generals simultaneously used the Wind Escape Method, their forms turning into three wisps of green smoke and vanishing.
Li Changshou, however, turned around and deliberately met the direction from which Golden Cicada had launched his sneak attack.
He had barely put away his fly whisk when a thin blade suffused with golden light eerily appeared before him, drawing a fine golden thread as it slashed at Li Changshou's neck!
Layer upon layer of ripples spread through heaven and earth before the blade, like undulating water. It even carried a touch of exquisite beauty.
Ripple of Slaughter.
Times had changed. How could Li Changshou simply sit and await death?
At some unknown moment, a water-blue pearl had appeared in his left hand. The pearl flickered faintly, and Li Changshou's body actually transformed into a mass of seawater!
The golden thin blade passed through the water without the slightest obstruction, finding no purchase at all...
Once the blade had passed, the two currents of water merged again, reforming into that old immortal in white robes, utterly unscathed from head to toe.
Li Changshou looked toward the distance, a faint smile in his eyes.
The pearl in his hand was one of the Five Elements Spirit Pearls gifted by Daoist Duobao.
By now, the