With a thunderous crash, the bolt from the clear sky struck the enormous Blue-Red Light sword without fail. Before Zhang Hong and Liu Xian'er's astonished eyes, the sword seemed to vaporize, blasted into two pieces in an instant. Black lightning raced along the remaining half toward the Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl, on the verge of striking it.
"Oh no!" Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong cried out. Their fingers flicked frantically, and they beckoned with their hands. The Water-Fire Sky-Piercing Pearl flashed and instantly separated into two beams, one red and one blue, which flew apart in opposite directions. They had avoided the black lightning by the narrowest margin.
"Hell Lightning!" Zhang Hong exclaimed. The sight of those bolts immediately reminded her of the Hell Lightning they had encountered in the Southwestern Ancient City, and her expression darkened.
"No, it isn't Hell Lightning!" Liu Xian'er had seen Hell Lightning too, but she quickly shook her head. After a pause, she said gravely, "That lightning carries a heavy stench of blood. It's Blood Fiend Thunderlight!" Her voice changed as she cried out again, "Are you the Blood Fiend Demon? No, the Blood Fiend Demon is already dead! What is your relationship to him?"
"Heh heh, to think someone still recognizes this old man's Blood Fiend Thunderlight!" The masked, black-robed cultivator had already become a giant several zhang tall. He chuckled sinisterly, then suddenly roared. Black light erupted from his six enormous arms as he slapped his body, pressing all six huge palms against himself.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle! Countless bolts of black lightning burst from his palms and swept over his body. His bones cracked with a series of startling reports, and his frame began swelling wildly. With sharp tearing sounds, his clothes burst apart, exposing black-purple muscles that writhed incessantly. Endless black qi