"Bang!"
Xu Taiping swung his saber to block, only to be sent flying backward by the punch.
Meanwhile, the Leopard Demon and Lion Demon had recovered. Before Xu Taiping could hit the ground, both stretched out their claws and swiped at him.
"Bang!"
Under the combined strength of two Demonic Beasts nearly on par with King-Level Demon Beasts, the Wind Wall around Xu Taiping, already destabilized by the Fire Fist's punch, shattered instantly.
As the Wind Wall shattered, the other Fire Fist that had flown out of the talisman caught up to him and slammed down at him.
Yet Xu Taiping's attention was not on the Fire Fist or the two Demonic Beasts poised to strike around him, but on Lu Chen.
When he saw Lu Chen thrusting his sword toward him, his gaze abruptly sharpened. He raised his left hand, which wore the Azure Luan Ring, and snapped his fingers with a crisp crack.
Two-Finger Strike, Mountain Shatter.
"Boom!"
Almost simultaneously with the snap, fierce streams of Gang Wind enveloped the two Demonic Beasts, the Fire Fist, and Lu Chen, who had already charged up to Xu Taiping with his sword, like invisible hands before forcefully "squeezing" them apart.
"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous explosion, clouds of blood mist burst from the two King-Level Demon Beasts, and countless wounds as though carved by sharp blades appeared across their bodies. Though they did not die immediately, they were already gravely wounded.
The Fire Fist was shredded outright by the bladelike Gang Wind.
Lu Chen, who was farthest from Xu Taiping, retreated in time to evade the lethal blow, but the Talisman Shield before him shattered with a crack.
Xu Taiping seemed to have anticipated all of this, and his expression barely changed.
Immediately after snapping his fingers, he raised the Spring