Just as he was thinking this, Mo Qingzhu suddenly shouted from afar:
"Daoist Taiping, that Crab Demon Blightbone is stealing the Demonic Fruit!"
Xu Taiping looked toward the voice and saw that the Crab Demon Blightbone had actually severed the entire fruit tree with its pincers and was stuffing the whole thing into its mouth.
Boom!!!
Without any hesitation, Xu Taiping drove his Wind-Thunder Step to full power. His figure appeared beside the Crab Demon Blightbone's mouth like lightning, and he hacked his saber down hard at it.
"Twelve Thousand Blades!"
Amid the roar unleashed through Overlord's Breath, Xu Taiping brought his saber down heavily on the Crab Demon Blightbone's enormous pincer, carrying the blade force of twelve thousand strikes.
Bang...!
Amid the thunderous impact, Xu Taiping's strike not only knocked the Crab Demon Blightbone's pincer backward but also left a deep gash in it.
The Demonic Fruit caught in the pincer scattered across the ground.
At this, the Demonic Daoist possessing the Crab Demon Blightbone roared in utter fury:
"If I cannot live, then we shall die together!"
Amid his roar, a human face actually appeared on the Crab Demon Blightbone's back. At the same time, an extremely dense mouthful of rotting corpse qi spewed from its mouth.
Xu Taiping instinctively wanted to hold his breath and dodge.
But just then, a voice that sounded somewhat weak, yet very familiar, suddenly reached his ears:
"Young Master Taiping! Holding your breath isn't enough! Close your eyes too! Close your eyes!"
Xu Taiping extended his divine sense toward the voice.
He discovered that the person warning him was none other than Xiahou You, sealed within the Flame Barrier behind the Crab Demon Blightbone.
Xu Taiping immediately closed his eyes and called out:
"Thank you for the warning, Miss Xiahou!"
As he