Seeing the two enemies ahead trying to stop him from leaving, Naruto sneered:
"You really think you're hot stuff just because you've fought me this long? I was only taking it easy."
As he spoke, Naruto dismissed the Golden Bell above his head. Under the stunned gazes of his two enemies, his figure began to blur.
The two demonic cultivators were still wondering what was happening. They widened their eyes to get a better look, only for a sharp pain to strike their left chests. A moment later, everything went black.
Naruto stood behind them. He withdrew the Divine Thunder and Astral Wind from his palms, deftly took their two Storage Pouches, then tucked both corpses away in a Storage Pouch as well.
His figure flashed again, and he entered the formation around the Spirit Stone mine.
Inside the formation, Xuan Le pushed down his shock at Naruto. Seeing that more than half the cultivators in his group were still trapped outside, fighting more fiercely than ever, he knew things were going badly.
He was about to go out with the others to help when Lu Tianmeng grabbed him.
"It's too late! They've already summoned the Green Sun Demonfire!" Lu Tianmeng said, shaking his head, his face grim.
Only then did Naruto notice that arm-thick streams of azure flame were shooting from the tips of the banners held by the men in red.
More than a dozen streams of azure fire surged skyward and gathered into a huge ball several yards across. It floated and swayed gently in the air, dazzlingly bright.
"What?"
Xuan Le froze, then opened his mouth to speak. But the men in red moved again, and his expression darkened.
The men in red pointed their banners at the Seven Sects cultivators still pinned down outside the