Little Princess Chu Tiancheng frowned beside them and said:
"It's only one Skeleton Soldier. Surely it couldn't trap Eldest Brother Taiping and the others?"
No one else spoke.
For even the widely experienced Old Martial God Zhu Huai and the Xiahou Clan siblings, with their profound family learning, knew little about the situation inside the Old Heavenly Court ruins.
Naturally, they did not know whether this Skeleton Soldier was strong or weak.
"Bang!..."
Just then, the Skeleton Soldier, standing over thirty zhang tall, struck the barrier surrounding the enormous palm with its axe again.
But just as before, this strike still failed to cleave through the barrier.
However, the five fingers of the pale hand had now spread completely open.
Xiahou You silently calculated the timing and found that, when the Skeleton Soldier's axe fell, the barrier protecting Xu Taiping, the others, and the pale hand would more or less have dissipated.
Then she drew a deep breath and said, her gaze unwavering:
"If it's only one Skeleton Soldier, Young Master Taiping and the others should have no trouble dealing with it, right?"
Just as she said this, the pale hand spread completely open, and the surrounding barrier burst like a bubble with a pop.
At the same time, the Skeleton Soldier already had both hands around its axe and brought it cleaving down viciously.
It was already too late for Xu Taiping and the others to dodge this strike. Someone had to step forward and take it.
"Clap!"
At this moment when a thousand pounds hung by a thread, Buddha light blazed around Master Xuanzhi. Pressing his palms together, he stepped forward and stood in front of the others.
In an instant, Xu Taiping and the others, including Master Xuanzhi himself, were enveloped in a layer of golden Buddha