Duan Xiaoyu spoke with a somewhat complicated expression:
"Though Yue Chang Kong of Ningchan Cave is no good, he was willing to sacrifice himself to withstand Heavenly Punishment for Taiping. It seems he does have some hot blood in him after all."
Little Princess Chu Tiancheng said in some surprise:
"He was only willing to do that because Taiping's battle intent affected him, and he had a Heart-Bewitching Gu planted in him."
The others in the pavilion nodded.
"Shing-!"
Just then, another blade cry mingled with a dragon's roar rang out from the Battle-Watching Projection. Immediately afterward, everyone saw Xu Taiping once again draw upon the battle intent of those three thousand Heavenly Soldier and Divine General skeletons and slash fiercely at the remnants of Xingtian's headless true body.
"Boom!"
The instant his long saber slashed out, the blade qi and thunderflame surrounding him abruptly coalesced into a true dragon phantom even larger than before, which roared toward Xingtian's ruined body.
At this sight, Xiahou Qingyuan frowned.
"Another slash? Could Shi Jianchen be planning to withstand Heavenly Punishment for Xu Taiping too?"
Beside him, Guangling Pavilion's Mu Yun's eyes lit up.
"If so, perhaps he can seize this chance while the Xingtian true body is weakened and slay him in one stroke."
Hearing this, everyone in the pavilion could not help looking at the battle scene with a trace of anticipation in their eyes.
"Boom!"
At that very moment, amid a deafening qi explosion mingled with a dragon's roar, the enormous dragon phantom formed from Xu Taiping's blade force and the battle intent of the military formation behind him once again opened its great maw toward Xingtian's ruined body below and spat out a breath of blade qi and thunderflame.
"Bang!!..."
Amid the tremendous crash, that breath turned the entire