After shaking off the white-robed elder's pursuit, he saw that Bai Yu was in danger and rushed over using the Endless Horizon movement technique, unleashing Hundred Cicadas Crying in Unison in his haste.
Boom!
Amid the violent clash of blade qi, the shadowy figure's long saber cleaved straight through Xu Taiping's hundred blade shadows.
Not only his blade qi, but his blade force was broken this time as well.
Aside from Blade Ghost, this was the first time Xu Taiping had suffered such a complete defeat in blade techniques.
Bang!
After his blade force was broken, he used the Azure Luan Ring to withstand a slash from the shadowy figure, then swept Bai Yu safely into the gourd, grabbed Huang Que, and escaped using Endless Horizon.
"Pfft!"
After hiding in a dense forest, Xu Taiping could not help spitting out a mouthful of foul blood.
Although the Azure Luan Ring's wind wall had kept the shadowy figure's slash from inflicting a fatal injury, it had still left a deep wound across his back.
What troubled him most was that the shadowy figure's blade qi had already seeped through the wound into his meridians. He had to sit in meditation and regulate his breathing as soon as possible to force it out of his body.
But the Purple-Robed Maiden had clearly noticed that Xu Taiping was gravely wounded and immediately ordered her subordinates to search with their divine sense.
They gave Xu Taiping no chance to regulate his breathing.
Left with no choice, Xu Taiping draped the Concealment Cloak over himself and the unconscious Huang Que, then used the Breath Concealment Method Fairy Lingyue had taught him to hide his presence completely while enduring the blade qi eating away inside him.
About two hours later.
The Purple-Robed Maiden and her