"Aaah! Fellow Daoist... spare me!" An enormous demon beast with a completely hairless body, rocklike skin, and a long, slender neck cried out in utter terror...
But...
Whoosh! An ear-piercing whistle suddenly tore through the air. A white sword ray thirty thousand feet long descended from the heavens. In an instant, like lightning cleaving the sky, it sliced the enormous demon beast clean in half, from its head to its slender tail...
Splurt! Countless streams of crimson blood sprayed in every direction and rained down from the sky... With an agonized howl, the beast plunged toward the enormous lake shimmering with five-colored spiritual light below...
Elsewhere...
"Hah!" A furious roar shook heaven and earth, followed by thunderous explosions. An enormous fist that looked as though it were forged from purple-gold metal punched forward, seemingly shattering the void...
Thud! With an earth-shaking, muffled explosion, the fist punched straight through the enormous body of a demon beast covered in red scale armor. The beast hurtled down toward the island below as though riding clouds and mist. If it landed squarely, more than half the island would be smashed apart...
But...
Boom! A thunderous explosion rang out like rolling thunder, and a gigantic foot, like the Sky-Piercing Pillar, swept viciously toward it...
Bam! The enormous red-scaled demon beast was blasted away whole... Wherever it passed, it crashed through space, stirring rings of terrifying gales. It flew dozens of miles before crashing into the sea with a boom! A splash thousands of feet high erupted from the surface. The beast bounced across the sea dozens of times amid rolling explosions before finally sinking into the water...
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Golden light surged around an enormous humanoid figure thirty thousand feet tall as he returned to his original form. Naturally, it was Li Xiaoya...