"Fellow Daoist Wen!" The three men who had followed him cried out in alarm, but Wen Wei seemed oblivious and charged straight at Venerable Scarlet.
With a wet hiss, the sword light pierced his body, its lethal heat burning a hole roughly an inch wide clean through his chest.
Yet not only did he keep moving, his aura abruptly surged, instantly breaking through the limits of an ordinary Earth Rank cultivator. It reached straight into heaven and earth, vast as an abyss.
Boom!
Wen Wei extended his arm. Beneath its coating of ice crystals, it actually took the shape of a wolf claw. He clawed at the air, sending seven fierce streaks of light tearing through the void with razor-sharp gang qi. Just as Venerable Scarlet began to dodge, they ripped the entire building apart.
Amid the tremendous crash, several figures sprang out in disarray. They were the Shadow King and the others, all dodging the collapsing wooden beams and masonry.
But Venerable Scarlet did not leave. Instead, he stood his ground, his aura abruptly soaring.
As an immense blaze surged into the sky, a three-legged golden crow radiating golden light for ten thousand lengths took flight, its entire body wreathed in roaring flames and oppressive heat.
When the three-legged golden crow appeared, the Shadow King and the others-and even everyone beyond the Manor, throughout Mofang City-saw a dazzling radiance fill heaven and earth. Terrifying light, like the blazing sun overhead, consumed their entire field of vision.
"Aaah!"
The ordinary people near the Manor had their eyes burned blind on the spot and screamed in agony.
Farther away, things were slightly better, but more and more people could still be seen crying out and wailing, tears streaming from their eyes as they hurriedly turned away, not daring to look again.