"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous crash, Zeba's enormous body reeled backward from Xu Taiping's punch.
But Zeba's fixation was so powerful that, through sheer will and strength, he forcibly righted his falling body, then roared and rammed his head hard toward Xu Taiping.
Meanwhile, directly behind the two of them, Xu Taiping's Mysterious Origin Avatar had just taken a slash from Liu Baizhi and was on the verge of shattering.
"Boom!"
This time, Xu Taiping threw a punch without even waiting for Zeba's head to strike.
But this punch was no longer Ox Horn Crashes the Mountain. It was the Baxia Form of the Great Sage Fist.
"Bang!"
As the punch landed, Zeba's enormous body shot straight toward Liu Baizhi behind him like a cannonball.
Liu Baizhi, who had been about to cleave Xu Taiping's clone apart, had no choice but to dodge.
Though she successfully evaded Zeba's hurtling body, another figure brimming with killing intent appeared before her.
That figure was naturally Xu Taiping's true body.
Without a second thought, Liu Baizhi drove the true essence and qi and blood within her to their limits, then twisted around with a boom and once again shot toward Xu Ziyan and the others.
"Bang!"
At that very moment, Xu Taiping's clone exhausted its spiritual power and burst apart.
Seeing the Water-Cutting Blade in his clone's hand about to fall, Xu Taiping, whose feet had yet to touch the ground, snatched it up and gripped it. The instant his feet landed, he assumed the striking stance of the Demon-Slaying Blade's Cicada Cry Form.
"Chirr!..."
As a blade cry like a vibrating cicada call rang out, blade shadows followed the lead of Xu Taiping's long blade, swishing through the air as they slashed toward Liu Baizhi, who had already been pinned in place by