Then a slender figure, her whole body radiating a pure, ethereal aura, emerged from the blue-green mist.
She was a divine general clad in blue-green armor, holding a bamboo flute, her features cold and aloof.
"Hm? Why has Gaishan used the Deity-Summoning Technique so soon?"
At the sight of the female divine general, Xu Taiping, who had been concentrating on merging the North Wind Fan's power of wind essence with the Golden Crow Fire's power of fire origin, immediately grew alert.
Just as confusion filled his mind, a clear flute note rang out, and the aura of Gaishan's true essence suddenly surged with a boom.
Judging by the fluctuations of this aura, Gaishan's true essence was now every bit as deep as that of an ordinary Spirit Refining Realm cultivator.
"Shing!..."
Almost at the very instant his true essence aura surged, Gaishan abruptly raised his saber and, with a swish, cleaved straight through the blade force of Xu Taiping's Mysterious Origin Avatar.
"Bang!"
Unable to withstand Gaishan's blade force as it was now, Xu Taiping's Mysterious Origin Avatar shattered on the spot, dissolving into mist.
With the Mysterious Origin Avatar no longer blocking him, Gaishan's blade force drove straight in, enveloping Xu Taiping entirely in an instant.
Seemingly feeling that suppressing Xu Taiping with blade force alone was not enough, Gaishan simply raised his arm and punched at him too, bringing the fist force he had accumulated for so long down upon Xu Taiping as well.
"Pfft!..."
Though Xu Taiping had prepared himself for this sudden onslaught of fist force and blade force, he still could not withstand it all and could not help spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Yet the instant the blade force and fist force struck, he once again split his attention to merge the North