"Boom!..."
Just as everyone downstairs was marveling at Xu Taiping's astonishing action, they suddenly saw the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion shudder violently.
Immediately afterward, amid that deafening crash, a dense cloud of blood-colored mist rose from the base of the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion.
In the blink of an eye, that dense blood mist transformed into an enormous blood python, coiling around and enveloping the entire Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion.
Most terrifying of all was this.
After coiling around the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion, the blood python suddenly opened its enormous jaws, swallowed the pavilion's roof, and began drawing the entire building into its belly, bit by bit.
"What... what's happening now?"
Below the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion, Jun Shuyan had yet to recover from the sight of Xu Taiping cutting down Gu Qingcheng with a single sword stroke. Now, seeing this, he began to wonder whether someone had caught him in an illusion.
"No... I'm not dreaming!"
Only after pinching his thigh hard did he confirm that he was not caught in an illusion. Everything before him was real.
"Young Master Song's unusual actions, and this bloody radiance filled with such an evil aura-could it be... could this marriage tournament actually be a trap laid by some faction?"
A terrifying thought flashed through his mind.
But before he could think it through, another tremendous boom rang out. Accompanied by a fierce surge of icy Sword Qi, sharp icicles thrust out from within the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion, piercing the blood python's body.
"If that blood python around the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion came from the heretical cultivator hiding inside, then this attack must have come from Brother Song, right? After all, when he attacked Gu Qingcheng, he also used Netherfrost Sword Qi sealed from Wuhuan."
Feeling the waves of icy Sword Qi coming from the Heavenly