Su Jiu moved so swiftly that her fluttering robes lent her an almost ethereal air.
Clad in white, her robes billowing, she unleashed dozens of Ice Spikes with every strike, never missing once. To the onlookers, she looked both fierce and dashing.
Whenever her ice spikes pierced a demon shadow, it instantly dispersed, as though purified, with no chance of ever reforming.
Few noticed this at first, but as Su Jiu continued fighting, more and more people discovered it.
The disciples closest to Su Jiu, in particular, wore plainly visible looks of astonishment.
Even Ning Fan, who normally paid no attention to anything, began glancing her way far more frequently.
Wherever Su Jiu passed, demonic qi scattered.
Now that her cultivation had risen, Su Jiu had become increasingly sensitive to the surrounding demonic qi, especially its purity.
As she cleared the demon shadows from her path, she recalled her encounter with the Phantom Blood Demon. The demonic qi it produced had been far denser than that of the demon shadows before her. Or rather, the concentrations of their demonic qi were not even on the same level.
Instead, it resembled the demonic qi used by the demonic cultivator she had previously eliminated, the one who had hidden in the cave and formed a contract with Yu Yin.
Su Jiu could not help wondering, Was this the difference between demonic cultivators and demons?
With that thought, her hands moved even faster.
After a while, the demon shadows finally seemed to realize how formidable Su Jiu's spiritual qi was, and began turning to attack the others.
This gave Su Jiu an opportunity to draw closer to her target.
The four elders glanced at Gong Hao and, receiving his permission, attacked Su Jiu together.
But how could Gu Ningyun and Xia Jue, who