The others beside him also felt that Xuan Zhou should not be so fixated on a spirit beast, but when they saw that the Earth Artifact's protection had made the mountain-guarding barrier sturdier and slowed the descent of the black shadow overhead, every one of them chose silence again.
Bang...!
Bang! Bang!
Amid the heavy sounds of one slash after another, time trickled by.
The area of the two peaks covered by the black shadow also increased little by little.
The next day.
Early morning.
"It nearly swallowed both peaks completely in a single night!"
When they saw that the black shadow hanging down from the sky canopy was only a thousand-odd zhang from the foot of the mountains, Lu Xuan and the others at the summit all wore expressions of lingering fear.
"Don't worry."
Xuan Zhou let out a long breath, then grinned and said:
"Never mind that he's already exhausted most of his magic power."
"More importantly, the Chaotic Stars Assembly begins at noon. If he doesn't leave soon, he'll be disqualified."
The others all nodded at his words.
In their view, however much Xu Taiping valued this spirit beast, he could never give up the Chaotic Stars Assembly, held only once every few centuries, for its sake.
Bang-!
But to their great surprise, Xu Taiping still had not given up. He continued swinging his saber at the Mountain-Guarding Grand Array.
The Heavenly Hound's phantom image likewise continued devouring the two peaks where Yellow Origin Palace stood, inch by inch.
Xuan Zhou sneered and said:
"He's merely gambling on which of us will give up first!"
Though deeply worried, the Yellow Origin Palace cultivators also thought Xuan Zhou's words made good sense.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Yet as noon approached, they discovered that Xu Taiping still showed no