"Are you the Abyssal Pavilion Thirteenth Seat?"
Yun Ling stared in a daze at Ni Zhao, who stood behind her.
Ni Zhao nodded within the blood mist and said:
"I am."
A glimmer of joy first appeared in Yun Ling's eyes, but a desolate sorrow immediately replaced it.
She looked at the demonic beast before her, which held Yunyan's head, and said sorrowfully:
"If only you could have come a little earlier."
The Thirteenth Seat raised his head, gazing unblinkingly at the overcast sky, and said calmly:
"I'm sorry."
Just as he spoke, a whale demon, shaped like a whale yet able to travel through clouds and mist, let out a long whale song before plunging headfirst from the sky.
Rumble...!
Amid the violent trembling of heaven and earth, Xu Taiping looked on in astonishment as he saw a humanoid demonic beast standing atop the mountainlike whale demon diving down.
More terrifying still, another six whale demons broke through the clouds behind it and plunged down in succession.
The auras of these seven whale demons, along with those of the demonic beasts standing upon them, swept down from the sky like a storm.
Clearly, the Thirteenth Seat's late arrival had been because of these seven whale demons.
And the seven demonic beasts standing upon them.
Yet faced with the whale demons diving down one after another, the Thirteenth Seat remained as calm as ever. Only when the first whale demon was a thousand zhang from the dilapidated village below did he speak expressionlessly:
"Mister Da, sorry for the trouble."
Hearing the name "Mister Da," Xu Taiping's heart immediately tightened.
Then, amid a sword cry carrying the sound of towering, crashing waves, he saw a streak of sword light like a broad river arrive from the east, separating the seven whale