(Second update)
Just as he was about to seize the masked female cultivator by the throat, her eyes suddenly blazed with dazzling red light. Thick black vapor began pouring from her entire body. She actually looked ready to drag Li Xiaoya down to death with her.
"Watch out, Fellow Daoist Li!" Blue Ice's clear cry suddenly rang out overhead. "??" flickered, and blue light flashed around the masked cultivator. Countless Ice Spikes shot toward her, freezing her inside a massive block of ice and preventing the black vapor from gushing out.
Whoosh! At that moment, Li Xiaoya shot a golden blade of light from one hand, slicing straight through the masked cultivator's waist. Before she could even scream, she was cut in two and fell.
But then, with a sudden bang, the masked cultivator's corpse burst apart, and a streak of Black-Red Light shot skyward.
"A golden core! Trying to escape?" Li Xiaoya saw it clearly: within that black-and-red light was a black-and-red golden core. The Heavenly Feather Wings on his back beat fiercely. With a boom, golden light erupted, and Li Xiaoya vanished into thin air. Another golden flash brought him in front of the golden core, and he reached out and forcibly seized it. Dazzling black-and-red light shone from the core, and the masked cultivator's voice actually emerged from it. "Spare me, Fellow Daoist! I was only passing through...!"
"Passing through? Hmph!" Li Xiaoya snorted coldly. Red light flared around his hand, and with a whoom, fiery red flames erupted. "Aah!" The masked cultivator's scream came from the golden core. Black vapor flashed, and her primordial spirit, which had attached itself to the core, was burned to nothing.
"Hmph! You followed us for so long, and you still dare claim you were passing through!" Li Xiaoya said coldly