But his startled cry had barely rung out when the ghost creature hurtling down toward the cold-faced old man suddenly froze in midair.
Everyone looked up to see that a gigantic Golden-Winged Peng Bird had the ghost creature's tail clamped in its beak.
Then the Golden-Winged Peng Bird laughed loudly and said:
"Elder Xuanbei, need a hand?"
Unexpectedly, the cold-faced old man shook his head and said:
"No need."
What astonished the Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples even more was that the Golden-Winged Peng Bird actually opened its beak and released the enormous winged ghost creature.
Boom...!!
In an instant, the enormous ghost creature plummeted toward the cold-faced old man below like a small mountain.
As it fell, a dazzling blaze erupted around the Golden-Winged Peng Bird with a boom.
Just as the uninformed Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples thought Heavenly Lord Xuanbei was certain to die and some could hardly bear to watch, Heavenly Lord Xuanbei, who had remained motionless all this time, suddenly raised his palm and swiftly formed hand seals, declaring:
"Heavenly Strike!!"
In a flash, with a deafening bang, two gigantic black hands appeared out of thin air and caught the mountain-sized ghost creature between them.
Bang-!
Amid the tremendous crash, the ghost creature, despite having already unleashed a ghost art to defend itself, was still slapped into a pulp of flesh and blood by the two gigantic black hands.
After a brief, deathly silence in the Boundless Hall, the surviving Pure Yang Sword Sect disciples whom Xiao Ming and the others had gathered to watch erupted into astonished cries.
But those cries soon stopped abruptly at another scene in the image.
Boom...!
Amid an ear-splitting sonic boom, a gigantic Golden-Winged Peng Bird, carrying a Mountain-Lifting Ape whose body was likewise several hundred zhang tall, charged