As he spoke, with a tremendous boom, a body covered in red dragon scales abruptly rose from the ground amid billowing waves of heat like blazing flames.
Like a great mountain, it took a heaven-supporting stance, sheltering Xiahou You and Bai Yue beneath it.
"Bang-!"
Amid the tremendous crash, the enormous mudra phantom that the Golden Child Blightbone had brought down slammed heavily onto that mountainlike body.
But what left Bai Yue and Xiahou You looking utterly horrified was this.
Even after taking such a violent blow, the dharma aspect standing in that heaven-supporting stance remained utterly motionless.
"Bang!!!"
Instead, the mudra phantom exploded under the blows of that body's palms.
Bai Yue's throat bobbed, and he murmured in disbelief:
"Is this... is this really... really Daoist Taiping's?!"
He found it hard to believe that Xu Taiping's physical strength had increased so much in less than two hours.
But only Xu Taiping knew.
Just what he had experienced in those short two hours.
"Boom...!!!"
Just then, an invisible surge of mountain spirit power abruptly descended from the sky, making the surrounding world shudder beneath its pressure.
Xu Taiping tossed down the Dragon-Trapping Tower and called out before it could enclose Bai Yue and Xiahou You:
"Miss Xiao You, Fellow Daoist Bai Yue, stay inside my tower and tend to your injuries!"
As he spoke, a boom rang out, and the Dragon-Trapping Tower enveloped them both.
In an instant, both felt the weight lift from their bodies.
The Dragon-Trapping Tower could isolate and defend against certain spells and divine abilities.
Xiahou You, however, did not follow Xu Taiping's instructions to heal inside the tower. Instead, after stuffing a spirit fruit into her mouth, she took out a spirit mirror.
"Boom!"
She swiftly pressed her hand against the spirit mirror, and it