As soon as the words fell, a bang rang out, and the fire arrows filling the sky burst apart like an enormous bubble.
The instant those fire arrows exploded, the woman's figure turned into a dazzling streak of light and swept through the hollow at their center.
In the blink of an eye, the woman flew down beside Xu Taiping's Origin Beginning Clone.
Seeing this, Purple-Robed Elder Lu in the distance immediately shouted in fury:
"Since you're courting death, you can join Xu Taiping in the grave as a sacrifice to my Ningchan Cave disciples!"
As he spoke, Purple-Robed Elder Lu suddenly clasped his hands together and slammed them down toward the ground.
Boom!
In an instant, Purple-Robed Elder Lu's figure abruptly transformed into an enormous Divine Manifestation formed from flames. Holding a hammer wreathed in rising fire, he smashed it heavily into the ground.
Bang!
With a violent tremor of the earth, the enormous Divine Manifestation and the huge hammer in his hands burrowed into the ground together, just as the fire dragon had earlier.
Rumble...
In mere moments, amid a terrifying, muffled rumbling from the earth, wave after wave of fire woven from lava and raging flames gushed from underground like spring water.
Within a brief span, more than half of Yangxian City had been swallowed by the waves of fire.
Seeing this, the woman remained unhurried. She simply removed an ice-blue ring from her hand and tossed it forward.
Boom!
In an instant, the ice-blue ring transformed into a ribbon of water, encircling the entire area for more than a hundred zhang around the woman and Xu Taiping.
No matter how high the waves of fire surged outside, this ribbon of water, like a small river, did not retreat in the slightest.
Viewed from high above, Xu