His words had barely fallen when a golden chain emerging from Devil Master Tianxing's body abruptly snapped with a crack.
Immediately afterward, a black vortex appeared behind Devil Master Tianxing.
"Boom!..."
The instant the black vortex appeared, the entire Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion abruptly shuddered. Devil Master Tianxing's already towering body shot up to twenty feet tall, nearly breaking through the roof.
At the same time, Xu Taiping could sense that the fluctuations of aura spreading from Devil Master Tianxing had instantly become filled with chilling malice, as though composed of countless lethally venomous snakes.
"Rusty Lion, Xu Taiping, you have already lost your last chance to escape alive."
Devil Master Tianxing sneered, then fiercely swept a broad sleeve of his blood-red robe toward Xu Taiping.
"Whoosh!"
In an instant, thousands upon thousands of blood-red threads formed from blade qi poured toward Xu Taiping like floodwaters bursting through a levee.
Before the might of this strike, Devil Master Tianxing's earlier slashes seemed like child's play.
Before coming here, Xu Taiping had imagined Devil Master Tianxing's strength as best he could. But when he saw the blade qi from this sweep of a sleeve flying toward him like countless strands of hair, he had to admit that he had still underestimated Tianxing.
"Bang!"
With just one strike, Tianxing's blade qi shattered the silver threads dancing across the air that the Mysterious Origin Avatar had summoned using the power of the North Wind Fan and Silver Sand.
But just as the Mysterious Origin Avatar was about to be sliced to pieces by the onrushing blade qi, a swirling mass of azure flame suddenly enveloped him, turning into an enormous wall of fire that blocked Devil Master Tianxing's torrent of hairlike blade qi.
This was the 𩙥 Flame Armor Xu Taiping had hastily condensed.