"Whoosh!"
The Sword Qi was clear and cold as frost. The instant it left the sword, it slashed down at Qin Yue's head like a phantom!
The sword light was incomparably sharp, as though it could cut through all things!
From several yards away, Li Heng felt his face sting as if it were being repeatedly scraped by a fine blade.
"It's Sword Qi!"
"Young Master, be careful!"
Hua Ying and Li Heng dodged in disarray, crying out in alarm.
At the sight, two brilliant lights suddenly shot from Qin Yue's eyes. Entirely unsurprised, he spun his saber to deflect the force and sneered.
"So you really were putting on an act!"
He swiftly slapped his storage pouch, and a five-colored talisman appeared in his palm!
The talisman paper was neither silk nor paper. Five-colored streams of light flowed across its surface, spiritual vitality contained within, its treasure radiance restrained.
This talisman was precisely a top-tier fourth-grade treasure talisman recorded in the Mara Myriad-Talisman Edict Scroll, the inherited canon of the Five-Talisman Sacred Sect, one of Yue Kingdom's three great demonic sects!
The Five-Element Revolving Talisman!
This precious top-tier fourth-grade treasure talisman had been granted by the Baleful Yin Sect's higher-ups for protection after Qin Long, the master of Dragon-Tiger Pavilion, defected to the Baleful Yin Sect.
After learning of Shen Xiuhan from Hua Ying, Qin Yue had been deeply wary of his Sword Qi.
Thus, he had specifically borrowed this treasure talisman from Qin Long to counter Shen Xiuhan's Sword Qi!
True Qi poured into the talisman!
"Buzz!"
The talisman paper trembled!
Five-colored radiance surged!
In the next instant.
The radiance transformed into five small spiritual-light shields, colored gold, azure, black, red, and yellow. Corresponding to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, they whirled around