"Little junior... brother?!"
Xu Taiping's sudden voice caught Zhao Linglong somewhat off guard, and her concentration briefly slackened.
Bang! Bang, bang...!
That brief lapse alone immediately let the Jade Emperor find an opening. Rosy light filling the sky tore through the Taiyi Sword's radiance and shot down in columns of light.
Boom...!
In an instant, Zhao Linglong could hold out no longer. The sword radiance formed by her Great Dao Life-Bound Flying Sword, Taiyi, was completely torn apart by the purple rosy clouds manifested from the Jade Emperor's Returning Heaven Edict.
Rumble...
The purple rosy clouds filling the sky then slammed down toward the ground like a gigantic palm.
Zhao Linglong, who was closest, bore the brunt.
Clang-!
At that hairbreadth moment, an enormous streak of sword light, like a flowing river of stars, suddenly swept across above Zhao Linglong's head.
Appearing alongside it was Xu Taiping, who had returned from the River of Time.
Boom!!!
Amid the deafening explosion, that sword strike forcibly tore an opening in the sky-spanning rosy light manifested from the Jade Emperor's Returning Heaven Edict.
For a moment, throughout this entire world, only the patch of sky above Xu Taiping and the others was clear.
Bang...!
But in just the blink of an eye, a gigantic hand suddenly seized Xu Taiping's enormous streak of sword light.
Looking up, they saw the Jade Emperor, purple rosy clouds swirling around him, holding Xu Taiping's sword light in his hand with an imperious air.
The heavenly might surrounding him poured down like a waterfall hanging from the sky.
Just like Xu Taiping, whose combat power had soared after returning from the River of Time, the Jade Emperor's cultivation and combat power had likewise recovered to Xu Taiping's level.
The Demon Ancestor, who had already arrived beside Xu Taiping,