"Bang!"
With a tremendous crash, the two burly middle-aged men were knocked straight to the ground by Xu Taiping and rolled over several times.
Xu Taiping merely took a few steps back.
"You dare hurt my men? Elder Lin, Elder Sun, kill him!"
The Young Palace Master, who had been brimming with smug satisfaction just moments before, abruptly changed expression at the sight and pointed at Xu Taiping with a vicious look.
The two old men with their hands tucked into their sleeves opened their eyes in unison. Their robes suddenly billowed, and a powerful Aura Fluctuation spread outward.
"Clang!"
But just then, a sword cry suddenly rang out.
Xu Ziyan, the Second Senior Sister of the Sixth Peak, flew in front of Xu Taiping, abruptly drew her sword, and pointed it at the two old men ahead, shouting, "Form the Upper Azure Cloud-Piercing Sword Formation!"
The moment she finished speaking, Nangong Hui, Lin Buyu, and the others behind her drew their swords with a succession of metallic rasps. Each took her position in a different direction, and powerful Aura Fluctuations spread outward.
In an instant, the sword formation was in place.
"Boom!" The instant the sword formation took shape, a fierce surge of sword gang became an explosive gale that swept across the entire Teleportation Platform.
The formidable pressure released by the sword formation forced the two old men to halt in their tracks.
"The Upper Azure Cloud-Piercing Sword Formation?!"
The round-faced elder frowned.
"So what if it is the Upper Azure Cloud-Piercing Sword? Without a sword cultivator with a thunder spirit root controlling the swords, this formation is nothing but a display."
The other old man spotted the formation's shortcoming at a glance.
But just then, Lin Buyu, who stood at the center of the formation and was