"You little girl truly have nerve. As the master of a sect, you were actually willing to sacrifice yourself to fight for a Ray of Vitality and a way out for everyone else.
"For that alone, I must make you fall into demonhood today and experience the joy of being Demon Lords like us!"
Tantai Zhi smiled like a blooming flower, her expression brimming with confidence and cruelty.
"Hmm?"
Tang Zhuying's brows furrowed slightly. She considered her Dao heart steadfast, utterly impervious to outside influence.
Yet when she met Tantai Zhi's teasing, faintly mocking gaze, she could not shake the feeling that something was wrong.
"Do you think your Dao heart is firm and that you cannot possibly be affected by me?"
Tantai Zhi continued, as though she had seen through Tang Zhuying's thoughts.
Tang Zhuying answered with silence, offering no reply.
Tantai Zhi's voice rang out again. "You wish to sacrifice yourself and hold the two of us back through your own strength.
"The thought is certainly admirable, but I fear... you will accomplish nothing."
"You... what are you going to do?"
Thinking of something, Tang Zhuying abruptly turned to look behind her.
The Star River Map could trap Tantai Zhi and the other, but it could not block her line of sight.
The instant she turned around, her expression changed drastically.
In the direction of the Back Mountain, a figure clad in black descended from the heavens, demonic qi churning around his entire body.
The teleportation array they had painstakingly constructed, capable of bypassing the spatial seal around them, shattered with a thunderous crash as this figure appeared.
With the teleportation array destroyed, Xuanji Sect's sole hope of escaping alive was declared extinguished.
Before anyone had time to despair, however, the newcomer released his aura, and towering demonic