"Stop!"
A red blur flashed outside the altar, and You Su Zhen appeared. At the sight of the violently swaying red light screen, shock and fury filled her face. She hurled herself toward it at full speed, trailing a string of afterimages.
Yan Wushi and Bai Xiaotian were both startled by the sight.
Shen Luo had promised to hold You Su Zhen back. With this demon now here, had he already been defeated and killed?
Having personally experienced You Su Zhen's strength, neither dared take her lightly. They immediately abandoned the red light screen and moved to intercept her.
Just then, lightning flashed before them, and a dense volley of explosive cracks rang through the void. Shen Luo appeared out of thin air.
"I said I would hold her back, and I will! You don't need to intervene. Destroy that Ancestral Spirit Statue as quickly as you can!" he shouted. He brandished the War God Whip and the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff, and thunderous booms rolled endlessly through the void. A mass of mountainous golden and black staff shadows appeared and swept toward You Su Zhen.
Before the staff shadows even reached her, their suffocating force made the surrounding void twist and hum, as though they possessed the might to cleave heaven and split the earth.
Blocked by Shen Luo yet again, You Su Zhen wanted nothing more than to tear out his tendons and strip off his skin. But with the staff shadows bearing down on her, she had no choice but to defend herself. She stopped, raised her silver staff to meet the shadows overhead, and swept all nine fox tails upward behind her.
Rumble!
A series of tremendous explosions erupted. Golden, black, silver, and red light collided fiercely like four colossal beasts wrestling. Waves of air blasted