Chapter 124: The Interloper (Fourth update)
(Bonus update for reaching 140 votes! Fourth update)
Then-
Clang! Clang! Two tremendous metallic crashes rang out. The gray-lit swords Luo Yan and Luo Bai had unleashed were actually knocked flying...
"Oh! So you managed to notice me. That was careless of me..." A cool voice drifted from the passage. Fairy Purple Smoke emerged with alluring grace and said lightly, "If my aura hadn't leaked out for a moment, you probably wouldn't have discovered me, would you?" With that, she pointed a slender finger. The two dark-purple swords wrapped in purple-black flames suddenly stirred up a swirl of dark-purple fire and hovered in the air, their tips aimed at Luo Yan and Luo Bai. "But you noticed me too late," she said coldly. "If you know what's good for you, surrender quietly. I won't kill you!"
"...The Purple Flame Sect!" Luo Yan and Luo Bai's faces darkened at the sight, and they spoke in unison. Luo Bai said coldly, "We may be badly injured, but you alone...!"
"It's you! Fairy Purple Smoke! How could you have gotten in here?" Before Luo Bai could finish, Luo Yan's face twisted, and she cried out in utter horror, "You're a Core Condensation Realm cultivator! How could you get in?"
"A Core Condensation Realm cultivator? Impossible!" Luo Bai's expression changed at her words, and he exclaimed in horror, "How could you have gotten in here?"
"I'll ask you one more time! Will you surrender?" Fairy Purple Smoke offered no answer. Her expression hardened as she snapped coldly, and the two swords wrapped in purple flames began to tremble...
"I understand now!" Luo Yan suddenly exclaimed. "No wonder your Purple Flame Sect always insisted on being teleported separately, and always reaped the greatest harvest. It seems you already know