The green-robed cultivator froze, his gaze sweeping from the stone pillar to the battle within the hall.
Long before entering the Immortal Ruins, he had already witnessed Su Shi'er's methods.
Now that he heard the other's instructions, he naturally did not ask anything further.
Drawing a deep breath, the short blade that had been attacking the light screen immediately turned back.
The short blade spun through the air, splitting into two cyan blade gleams that descended in a crisscross from either side of the stone pillar.
"Clang!"
The blade gleams struck the wooden roots, sending sparks flying in a dazzling shower and ringing out with the sound of clashing metal.
Yet beneath this assault, the two wooden roots were not destroyed. Instead, they tightened even further.
Waves of invisible energy surged back in reverse.
The green-robed cultivator's face turned pale, and the fingers maintaining his hand seal began to tremble violently.
How could he dare be careless? True essence swept from within him, condensing into a Body Protection Qi Shield before him. Defensive talismans and defensive artifacts were activated in succession as well.
At the same moment the green-robed cultivator made his move, Su Shi'er flashed forward in a blur, arriving before the stone pillar at once.
True essence radiated from his palm, slowly circling along the outer sides of the two wooden roots.
The siphoned blood and vitality, wrapped in blue-black radiance, were continuously flowing toward the hall.
The true essence in Su Shi'er's palm surged, making contact with that cyan radiance.
"Cloud-Sweeping!"
With a low cry, Su Shi'er decisively unleashed the Miro Heaven Hand.
In an instant, the true essence in his palm blazed brilliantly. It was as though Dao energy emerged, transforming into a strand of Mysterious Power.
Drawn by this power, the blue-black radiance abruptly veered