"Whew..."
After seeing Azure-Eyed Evil Lord stay his hand, Xu Taiping let out a long breath and murmured, lingering fear on his face:
"I made it in time at last."
But the words had barely left his mouth when a bone-piercing chill, like countless fine silver needles, first pierced his skin, then burrowed into his blood vessels and marrow, before finally turning into a mass of searing flame that burned his body from the inside out.
Without a doubt, the Ghost Water Azure Flame released by Azure-Eyed Evil Lord's Ghost Water Sacred Body had invaded his body.
"Pfft!..."
Even as he circulated his true essence with all his strength to resist it, some of his flesh, bones, and meridians were still scorched by the Ghost Water Azure Flame.
Fairy Lingyue immediately reminded Xu Taiping:
"Taiping, Blade Qi Transformation into Thunder!"
At Fairy Lingyue's reminder, Xu Taiping understood at once. He immediately drew on all the Geng Metal within his qi sea, converting it into blade qi thunderclap in one go.
Boom!
Amid a deafening qi explosion, blade qi surged skyward around Xu Taiping, scattering all the Ghost Water Azure Flame that kept falling around him like raindrops.
Even so, the constantly falling Ghost Water Azure Flame still placed Xu Taiping under immense pressure.
At the same time, his blade qi thunderclap was being devoured at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Because of this, Xu Taiping had to pour half a flask of Hidden Immortal Wine down his throat in one go before he could barely sustain the drain the blade qi thunderclap placed on his true essence and qi and blood.
Xu Taiping wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and murmured, still shaken:
"Life-and-death battles between High-Ranking True Cultivators really are terrifying."
After all, Azure-Eyed