After Zhang Yu shattered that Daoist's external body, his sword light did not pause in the slightest. It folded in midair and slashed toward the other two who had attained superior fruition.
The two had originally been responsible for attacking from the side and guarding the formation when that Daoist confronted Zhang Yu. They had not expected to face the true target themselves. Unwilling to be captured without a fight, they each brought forth formation artifacts to block him while sending out a command signal, attempting to contact the Origin Xia garrison and have it retrieve them.
But their actions were meaningless. The fact that the previous Daoist had been able to activate a formation artifact to delay Zhang Yu's assault did not mean they could do the same. The sword light flashed, instantly leaving the defensive formation artifacts they had summoned behind. After another rapid flicker, it suddenly turned and had already returned behind Zhang Yu.
Zhang Yu stood calmly in midair. Looking again at the two men, he saw that both had frozen in place. A moment later, they exploded with a boom, each turning into a mass of radiant qi.
Only then did the formation artifacts they had summoned fall before Zhang Yu. Yet before they could touch him, the instant they brushed against the clear qi around him, they silently collapsed.
Having suppressed and extinguished the three, Zhang Yu gazed levelly into the void. In that brief span of time, one Earth Star after another had been established there, and their numbers were still increasing.
After calmly watching for a moment, the sword light behind him shot forth once more, transforming into hundreds of streaks midway through its flight. They resembled starry rainbows, piercing through those Earth Stars. Wherever each ray passed, the Earth Star in