"This man was truly sinister. If he had directly launched a sneak attack just now, we would have been dead or wounded!"
Suppressing the shock in her heart, Mu Feiyan muttered softly.
Ning Caiyun's pupils contracted slightly, yet she was not distracted in the slightest.
She was not at all surprised that the other party had held something back. What astonished her was merely the extraordinary nature of his Flying Daggers. Had they been used in a sneak attack, she truly might not have been able to block them.
"Ladies, please."
The Scarred Face Cultivator spoke again. With that, he turned and took the lead out of the room.
The Pockmarked Face Cultivator and Wu Dexing exchanged a glance. Neither questioned their companion's choice, and they hurried after him.
Staring intently at their backs and confirming that they had made no other suspicious movements, Ning Caiyun narrowed her eyes before stepping outside.
However, just as she took a step forward—
A sudden change erupted.
The two Flying Daggers that had landed earlier trembled slightly, their cold gleam surging brilliantly.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The sound of blades splitting the air rang out abruptly. Two flashes of blade light streaked past, tearing through the air as they shot straight toward Ning Caiyun.
Pfft!
The blade light was swift as lightning. Ning Caiyun had never relaxed her vigilance, remaining on guard the entire time.
The instant she sensed danger, she crushed the high-grade defensive Jade Talisman in her hand, activating a defensive barrier around herself.
But the change had come too suddenly. She was still a fraction too slow.
Crack!
The instant the defensive barrier appeared, the blade light struck it, and the blade aura surged another threefold.
The two blades struck in succession. After two thunderous impacts, the defensive barrier shattered.
The blades