Before the words had faded, the Seventeenth Elder struck!
His sleeve flicked, and a ball of ghostly green poisonous fire swelled in the wind. It became a savage flaming python and lunged at Su Hu's head, trailing a stench of venom.
Steward Li moved almost at the same instant. A flick of his left hand sent a deathly pale, icy finger strike silently toward Su Hu's dantian. It was vicious in the extreme!
Two Celestial Immortals had joined forces without hesitation, and their attack was merciless!!
Cries of alarm rose from the foot of the mountain.
Yet faced with a combined assault that would have thrown an ordinary Celestial Immortal into disarray, Su Hu's eyes remained cold. There was even a trace of... mockery in them.
"Is that as fast as you can go?"
Su Hu moved.
He merely took one step forward.
Boom!
An indescribably vast power erupted, mingled with the fierce will to fight he had tempered over a hundred years!
Space warped faintly around him. The roaring python of poisonous fire struck as though it had hit an invisible wall of bronze and iron. With a wail, it disintegrated inch by inch!
The icy finger strike did not even reach him before his blazing, indomitable aura dissolved it into nothing!
"What?!"
The Seventeenth Elder's and Steward Li's pupils contracted sharply, disbelief filling their faces.
In that instant of horror, Su Hu vanished.
The next moment, he stood before them, less than three feet away!
Fast!
Faster than anything they believed possible in the Celestial Immortal Realm!
Su Hu struck with both hands. His right hand formed a claw, wreathed in pale golden light that seemed to suppress the void, and clamped down toward the crown of the Seventeenth Elder's head.
The fingers of his left hand came