"What a grand claim—refusing to let others run wild! I'd like to see just how capable you people who have only just crossed tribulation truly are."
"Can you really stop the people Demon Shadow Palace intends to kill...?"
An indignant rebuke rolled over like muffled thunder.
As the words fell, a streak of dark-red sword light trailed a long crimson tail as it pierced the clouds and tore through the sky from beyond the heavens, arriving in an instant.
The sword light was razor-sharp, its sword intent surging like a tidal sea, bearing down with the force of mountains collapsing and oceans overturning—unstoppable.
Though the attack was aimed at the East Sea Sword Saint, the lingering invisible pressure it gave off immediately locked onto Su Shi'er and the others on Sword Island as well.
In a single instant, everyone present froze, their expressions changing drastically.
For a moment, they felt as though they had sunk into a quagmire, unable to move even a finger.
"This is bad! It's Elder Ku Rong, a late-stage Nascent Soul Stage cultivator from Demon Shadow Palace!"
Li Piaoyu cried out in alarm. Her originally adorable doll-like face turned pale with fright.
The moment her words fell—
"Hmph!"
The East Sea Sword Saint snorted coldly and pointed two fingers skyward like a sword.
The wind stirred his robes.
A furious gale abruptly rose on the island. Within the wind, a plain and unadorned sword qi, three feet and two inches long, tore through the air and rode the wind forward, meeting the sword light descending from beyond the heavens head-on.
Bang!
With a dull boom, the two attacks collided. The dark-red sword light exploded in the air, while the raging wind and sword qi remained undiminished, vanishing through the sky beyond everyone's sight.
The sight made