"It seems I awoke at just the right time."
Compared to the Pockmarked Elder, Vice Palace Master Yun Shiliu looked much calmer when she saw Xu Taiping unleash his blade domain.
"Palace Master Yun, could you have sensed something?"
Hearing this, the Pockmarked Elder immediately turned toward Yun Shiliu, a trace of horror flashing through his eyes.
He knew very well that Yun Shiliu had awakened from seclusion at least ten years ahead of schedule.
And given Yun Shiliu's current cultivation, anything capable of waking her from seclusion was certainly no ordinary matter.
"An old bastard did wake me up, but it had nothing to do with this Xu Taiping. I merely wanted to watch the excitement."
Yun Shiliu set down her teacup and rested her chin on her fair hand, her gaze remaining on the image projected by the Spirit Mirror before her.
"Boom!..."
Within the Spirit Mirror, the Headless Ghost seemed to come to his senses and abruptly swung his blade down at Xu Taiping.
As the blade fell, hundreds of balls of green ghostfire streaked through the air toward Xu Taiping.
In an instant, those hundreds of flames all manifested as hundreds of ghosts, charging together at Xu Taiping's blade domain with tremendous force.
"Bang!"
Amid the thunderous impact, the dragon silhouette coiling around Xu Taiping was actually struck until it began to scatter.
The hundreds of ghosts then entered Xu Taiping's blade domain.
"Even hundred-foot blade domains differ in strength. What comes next will depend on whether the powers of their respective blade domains can counter one another."
The Pockmarked Old Man paused here and glanced at the host of ghost kings rapidly approaching from nearby before continuing:
"Xu Taiping doesn't have much time left."
In his view, if dealing with a single Headless Ghost was