"Boom! Rumble..."
After facing the roar of blade qi for nearly the time it took to brew a cup of tea, Ninth Madam and the others, whose faces had already been filled with horror, now looked so gloomy that water seemed ready to drip from their faces.
Even now, though that blade force had gradually receded, lingering fear still gripped them as they looked up at the residual blade light rolling overhead like waves.
At that moment, Heavenly Lord Xuanbei glanced at Daoist Fengzhu beside him and said with a frown:
"Those last few strikes were certainly beyond what either of us could have withstood when we first entered the Half-Immortal Realm."
Daoist Fengzhu nodded expressionlessly.
"We couldn't!"
Ninth Madam drew a deep breath and said gravely:
"Then it seems this is no ordinary Half-Immortal Realm expert."
Heavenly Lord Xuanbei said thoughtfully:
"Some old fellows like hiding away in places like the God-Burying Mound to cultivate. This one might be the same."
Ninth Madam said thoughtfully:
"Judging by the present circumstances, it does seem they had been hiding in those ruins for a long time."
At the mention of "ruins," Ping'an suddenly came to his senses and said in a panic:
"Oh no! We don't know how Eldest Brother and the others are doing!"
In his view, even if that expert had not made trouble for Xu Taiping and the others, the sheer force of those blade strikes would have been enough to injure them.
Old Daoist Huang, who had also realized this, immediately asked Ghost King Qin Ming beside him:
"Mr. Qin Ming, is there any way to check directly on the situation at the ruins?"
Qin Ming frowned in thought, then said solemnly:
"I'll think of something."
But just as he reached into his sleeve to rummage for