However, just as Shen Luo moved, the nearby void rippled, and a black skeleton appeared out of thin air. It was the Demon Clan skeleton called Brocade Beauty, holding two jet-black longswords flickering with lightning. Like two living sword-serpents, they crossed as they slashed toward Shen Luo.
"So it really was you!"
Shen Luo's pupils contracted. With a twist of his body, he shot clear of the two black sword shadows, then unleashed the Heaven-and-Earth Profound Fire Tower and smashed it down at the skeleton.
The Profound Fire Tower abruptly grew tenfold, and a mass of white pillars of flame shot from its base. They were the six ding divine fire contained within the tower, and they struck Brocade Beauty.
Yet the phantom of a yellow-and-black short ruler suddenly appeared around Brocade Beauty. It radiated rings of yellow light that enveloped her body, and she vanished into thin air.
"That was the Shrinking Earth Ruler!" Shen Luo was startled. He immediately recognized the black-and-yellow short ruler as one of the two demonic treasures Mu Xiao had snatched away in the Black Abyss Mystery Cavern years ago.
The Shrinking Earth Ruler was a spatial magic treasure capable of shrinking distances to mere inches and manipulating spatial power. Although the Great Profound Gold Magnetic Polar Force could block the Five-Elements Escape Techniques, it might not be able to block a spatial magic treasure like the Shrinking Earth Ruler. Brocade Beauty had apparently used it to shoot across the Profound Gold Floor Tiles.
In the instant he was distracted by the Shrinking Earth Ruler, yellow light flashed in the void behind him. Brocade Beauty reappeared like a phantom, thrusting both black swords toward his back.
Clang! A thunderous clash of metal rang out!
The Enlightened Heavenly Beast appeared beside Shen Luo, a pair