"Boom!"
Huang Que had barely finished speaking when the chest of Li Muyang, who lay before him, suddenly exploded without warning. A blood spear formed from blood, flesh, and bone shot out of his ruptured chest.
The spearhead pointed straight at Huang Que's head.
Less than five feet separated them. Even if Huang Que's mind could react, he could not cast a spell or summon a treasure in time to defend against the blood spear.
"Bang!"
Just as Huang Que prepared to resign himself to his fate, a treasure's radiance, resembling ethereal clouds and mist, appeared before him and intercepted the blood spear.
Shocked to his core, Huang Que turned and saw Xu Taiping standing behind him, holding an oil-paper umbrella. The treasure's radiance shielding him came from that very umbrella.
This paper umbrella was the Cloud-Cloaking Umbrella that the Mysterious Wasteland Tower had given Xu Taiping.
Although this Immortal Treasure's power was also suppressed by the barrier the True Martial Great Emperor had placed over the mortal world, it was a supreme Immortal Treasure personally kept in Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland's collection. Blocking a blood spear formed from the qi and blood, flesh, and bones of a Nether Gazing Realm cultivator was well within its capabilities.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
After Xu Taiping blocked that blood spear with the Cloud-Cloaking Umbrella, another five or six blood spears burst out of the young Azure Profound Sect disciple Li Muyang's body.
"Bang! Bang, bang, bang!..."
Although these blood spears were even more powerful than the first, the Cloud-Cloaking Umbrella in Xu Taiping's hand ultimately blocked them all.
However, after blocking these blood spears, the treasure's radiance emanating from the Cloud-Cloaking Umbrella dimmed considerably, and more than half the spiritual energy within it was depleted.
That the Cloud-Cloaking Umbrella had consumed so much