What?
Inside the Bixiao Palace's great hall, now a complete wreck, Li Changshou looked past layer upon layer of figures and more than a dozen light barriers at Lord Tongtian on the high platform.
Lord Tongtian wore a slightly helpless expression as he watched the rapidly spinning ten-and-a-half-petal red lotus in his left palm, then glanced at the bewildered scholar's soul in his right.
This Saint Lord, who usually put on no airs, had gained a measure of solemnity.
The scholar's soul was red all over. His body kept swelling, shrinking, swelling again, as though it might explode at any moment.
With Lord Tongtian protecting him, naturally nothing would truly happen to him.
Yet Li Changshou was heaping praise upon them in his heart...
Setting aside the artistry of the red lotus's collapse and explosion just now, these Jie Teachings Immortals had truly acted ruthlessly, swiftly, accurately, and steadily!
The instant the red lotus erupted and Lord Tongtian acted, Li Changshou's first reaction had been to grab Yunxiao's arm and call for Picture Boss to save him.
But just as he was about to raise his arm, golden light flickered before him, and Yunxiao was already standing in front of him with the Primordial Golden Dou in hand.
In practically an instant, Grandpa Zhao's Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, Holy Mother Jinling's Four Symbols Pagoda, Qiongxiao's Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, and over a dozen defensive spiritual treasures Daoist Duobao had flung out all appeared near Li Changshou, placing more than ten layers of defense and three or four figures before him!
Had one person reacted so quickly, Li Changshou would not have been too surprised. What truly shook him was that nearly every Jie Teachings Expert present had made the correct response in the shortest possible time.
The Jie Teaching's sect style...