"X-Xiaoyu?!"
Still shaken, Ping'an suddenly looked astonished when he made out the little girl's appearance as she stood atop those hundreds of Immortal Swords.
Just then, amid flickering lightning, Xu Taiping appeared behind Xiaoyu.
He scooped Xiaoyu up, then flew down with those hundreds of flying swords to land before Ping'an and Old Daoist Huang.
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Ping'an finally reacted and cried joyfully:
"Eldest Brother!"
Xu Taiping, who looked equally shaken, nodded gently, then asked with concern:
"Ping'an, how are your injuries?"
Ping'an glanced at his chest, then grinned:
"Don't worry, Eldest Brother. They're only flesh wounds."
He added:
"Once that demonic beast died, its demon seed power naturally disappeared too."
Xu Taiping immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Behind them, Old Daoist Huang, who was still guarding the Annihilation Land's seal, suddenly shouted, "Xu Taiping, Ping'an, stand guard for me a moment. I'll reopen this Annihilation Land!"
As he spoke, with a boom, a mass of azure light shot skyward from Old Daoist Huang, piercing straight through the blood mist overhead.
As it turned out, when the barrier had broken earlier-
Old Daoist Huang's Annihilation Land seal had also been forced to close, causing the blood mist overhead to close up again and obscure the sky once more.
And by now, all three of them knew.
No matter whether they used magic power or qi and blood power, they could not pass through any area shrouded in the Impure Land Blood Mist.
Xu Taiping immediately nodded:
"Elder Huang, focus on setting up the barrier. Ping'an and I will hold things here."
After answering, Ping'an looked at Xu Taiping curiously:
"Eldest Brother, what's going on with these flying swords? Did you have Xiaoyu control them to save us?"
Xiaoyu had been dozing in Xu Taiping's