Boom!!
Suddenly, after another tremendous crash, a burly figure whose physique bore some resemblance to Xu Taiping's appeared beside him, with tens of thousands of armored soldiers following behind.
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Kang Cangzi suddenly exclaimed in disbelief:
"Lord Flame Emperor!"
Indeed, the figure standing shoulder to shoulder with Xu Taiping was none other than the Flame Emperor whom Kang Cangzi had once seen within the Moonlight Stone.
"Oh?"
Just then, the Flame Emperor's voice suddenly rang through the heavens like muffled thunder.
With his arms folded across his chest, he looked at Xu Taiping beside him in pleasant surprise and said:
"You little fellow, you can actually use this battle art of the Dragon Clan to summon my battle intent already."
Xu Taiping bowed to the Flame Emperor, then said with a smile:
"Fortunately, at the brink of death, I tempered this physique to the true Ultimate Dao Realm."
The Flame Emperor glanced at Xu Taiping's physique, then nodded lightly.
"Without this physique to protect you, your divine soul would have burst into nothingness the moment you summoned us."
Boom...!!
Just then, another petal of the Demon Mother's black lotus unfurled, leaving only the last two petals on its lotus throne.
Seeing this, Xu Taiping immediately called out:
"Lord Flame Emperor, honored predecessors of Shangqing, please lend me your strength to root out the scourge of the Nine Abysses once and for all!"
At these words, all the figures, including the Flame Emperor, suddenly unleashed an immense aura of annihilation together.
That aura threatened to eclipse even the Demon Mother's black lotus.
"Even if you can summon these old relics, you're still too late!"
After the Demon Mother let out a piercing shriek, all the petals of the black lotus she had become suddenly burst