Xu Taiping nodded inwardly.
Just then, Xiao Huang beside him suddenly asked Xu Taiping with great curiosity:
"Brother Taiping, how exactly did you escape that power of heavenly punishment that day?"
Xu Taiping asked somewhat curiously:
"Brother Xiao Huang, you call that the power of heavenly punishment?"
Xiao Huang nodded calmly and said:
"Unless I'm mistaken, the invisible gravity you encountered that day was the power of heavenly punishment recorded in our Ziyang Sect's ancient texts."
Xu Taiping's heart jolted.
Just as he was about to question Xiao Huang further, a woman's voice filled with fury came from one side:
"Lin Buyu! Why did you collude with outsiders and even Senior Sister Qingxiang and Cousin Luo Hong!"
Sensing the killing intent in that cry, Xu Taiping instinctively shielded Lin Buyu behind him from it, while placing his hand on his saber's hilt.
Rumble...!
A surge of killing intent, fierce as a great river in full flood, roared out to meet it.
Bang!!
Immediately, with a heavy crash, a cultivator who looked like a young girl staggered several steps backward under the impact of Xu Taiping's killing intent.
She only stopped when several people beside her caught her.
Only then did Xu Taiping finally get a clear look at the woman.
He frowned and said:
"Jiang Yu?"
Indeed, the person who had just shouted abuse at Lin Buyu was Jiang Yu, a disciple of Three Corpses Cave.
Standing beside Jiang Yu, apart from Nangong Wen and Baili Yezhao, were Venerable Fuyao and the other two of Three Corpses Cave's Three Sages.
Lin Buyu, whose face had been frosty at Jiang Yu's questioning, suddenly softened again upon seeing the broad, tall figure standing before her.
But mere breaths later, she stepped out from behind Xu Taiping with her face once again cold