"Wait a moment, my lord. I'll hack him into ten thousand pieces right now and see whether that clone of his can still hold out!"
The burly man drew the long saber at his waist, then slashed at Xu Taiping with a swish.
With a ripping sound, the saber in the burly man's hand opened a long gash across the chest of Xu Taiping's clone, which still offered no resistance.
Although a slash across the chest would not kill the clone, the pain his real body had to endure was genuine.
Yet even so, Xu Taiping's real body still did not dispel the clone.
"Let's see how much longer you can hold out!"
Humiliated into fury, the burly man kept swinging his saber, slashing Xu Taiping's clone with swish after swish.
Had a real person been standing before him rather than a clone, Xu Taiping would likely have long since been carved into chunks of flesh by the burly man's saber.
But even while enduring the agony of being sliced a thousand times and carved apart ten thousand times, Xu Taiping still did not withdraw his clone.
For an instant, a trace of fear appeared on the burly man's face.
At this moment, even someone as straightforward as he was keenly sensed that Xu Taiping's refusal to dispel his clone meant he was hatching some great scheme.
That went without saying for Devil Master Tianxing.
By now, he could already conclude that Xu Taiping intended to use this clone to reverse his trapped situation.
Rumble...
Just then, a deafening peal of thunder rang out from the clouds above Golden Summit Mountain.
"Lord Tianxing, this boy-this boy must be plotting something with that clone. We have to destroy him at once!"
The burly man looked nervously at Tianxing beside him.
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