"The Sun-Moon Radiance Staff! To think Mount Putuo bestowed that immortal staff on you. Unfortunately, you're far too weak to unleash its power. Die!" The purple-robed man sneered and clawed at the air.
Thunder roared across the vast purple net. Dozens of thick, hazy-purple lightning bolts suddenly shot from it, raining down on Nie Caizhu.
Nie Caizhu paled and strained to activate the silver ribbons around her, but the man's long black shuttle had them firmly entangled. They could not break free to protect her.
The purple lightning abruptly swelled severalfold, engulfing an area dozens of yards across and leaving Nie Caizhu nowhere to dodge. She was about to be swallowed by it.
Just then, a piercing whistle rang out from the black demonic clouds behind her. A house-sized Purple Giant Bead shot forth, flashed above Nie Caizhu's head, and intercepted the purple lightning.
Every bolt struck the bead. Amid thunderous explosions, clusters of miniature purple suns erupted, easily tearing a vast clearing through the nearby black demonic clouds and shaking the surrounding space.
Yet the Purple Giant Bead remained unscathed. It merely shuddered violently a few times, without so much as a scratch.
"What?!" The purple-robed man was aghast.
His purple lightning net was a Magic Treasure with no fewer than twenty restrictions, yet it could not inflict the slightest damage on that Purple Giant Bead. What sort of treasure was it?
A trace of greed flashed through the purple-robed man's eyes. He formed a hand seal, and the purple lightning net immediately descended toward the Purple Giant Bead.
A sword's shrill cry rose from the black demonic clouds beside Nie Caizhu. A crimson streak of sword light, like a colossal dragon, shot out and slashed toward the purple-robed man.
The purple-robed man raised an eyebrow slightly, unconcerned.
Although