"Zeba! Do you no longer want those two children of yours?"
Inside the karst cave, Liu Baizhi of the Faceless Tower roared at Zeba, the Gurong Tribe Strongman, her face twisted savagely. Then, with a shing, she drew the long blade at her waist and lunged like the wind toward Xu Ziyan and Zhao Linglong.
Although she did not know why Xu Taiping was unaffected by the Qi-Dispersing Gu, the exchange he and Dugu Qingxiao had just held across the distance had already made her realize that the situation had changed.
And in that fleeting instant, she had worked out a countermeasure-
Use Zeba's children as leverage to make him hold Xu Taiping back at the cost of his life, while I take control of Xu Ziyan, Zhao Linglong, and the others, and continue using them to threaten Dugu Qingxiao and Xu Taiping.
"Bam!..."
Xu Taiping saw through Liu Baizhi's intentions immediately and was about to intercept her with Sudden Wind Step, but the moment he turned, he unexpectedly collided with the Gurong Tribe Strongman Zeba's chest, which was as hard as a city wall.
"Aah!..."
With his eyes blood-red, Zeba let out a crazed roar and clamped his two tree-trunk-thick arms around Xu Taiping.
"Bam!"
Although Xu Taiping no longer needed to conceal his strength, his True Essence and qi and blood were both restrained by the True Martial Barrier. He merely jarred the Gurong Tribe Strongman Zeba's arms loose without breaking free completely.
Seeing that Zeba had successfully intercepted Xu Taiping, Liu Baizhi immediately cast aside all restraint. Her long blade carried chilling blade qi as she slashed straight toward Xu Ziyan and the others ahead.
"Shing!"
But just as she slashed with her long blade, Xu Taiping dismissed his clone outside, then formed another clone behind him.