Yellow Cloud Arhat paid Yellow Swollen Daoist no heed at all and simply told him to get lost.
Yellow Swollen Daoist flew into a rage. "You look down on me far too much! Come, come, let's go duel with swords atop the western mountain. If I win, you let me take my Adopted Daughter away. Do you dare?"
Yellow Cloud Arhat was about to speak when Red Flame Arhat beside him said contemptuously, "What sort of creature are you? You think you're worthy of fighting us?"
"Then I'll test your Swordsmanship right here!" Yellow Swollen Daoist immediately released his newly refined flying swords, sending three streaks of yellow light shrouded in flying sand shooting toward Red Flame Arhat.
Red Flame Arhat did not engage him in a sword duel. Instead, he pointed, causing scorching flames to surge from the ground beneath Yellow Swollen Daoist's feet.
The flames first formed a circle, then took the shape of a lotus, its petals opening and unfurling as they burned upward.
Yellow Swollen Daoist was about to leap into the air, but the flaming lotus held his body fast.
Startled, he hurriedly recalled his flying swords and achieved Human-Sword Unity, turning into a streak of yellow light dozens of yards long that shot skyward.
He rose into the air, but the flaming lotus clung to his sword light and ascended after him.
Yellow Swollen Daoist revealed his form in midair. The flaming lotus remained beneath his feet, rapidly unfurling and blossoming, burning fiercely as it swelled from a mere four yards across to roughly a sixth of an acre.
Yellow Swollen Daoist had not expected his opponent's spell to be so formidable. He knew this was demon fire the other man had cultivated. Unless he could break it, he would be burned to ashes,