"Miss, take a look at this."
Above the small courtyard, the old woman from the Poison King Cult handed Demoness Su Su a bronze mirror.
"What is it?"
Demoness Su Su took the bronze mirror with a puzzled look, then saw Xu Taiping standing beside a woman's bed within it.
Su Su's face instantly darkened.
"So he was stalling to save this woman."
Demoness Su Su snorted coldly, then ordered the old woman:
"Kill!"
At her command, the old woman immediately swept her hand.
The Poison King Cult disciples in charge of the Heavenly Net Blood Blade Formation all acted at once.
With a boom, the Heavenly Net Blood Blade Formation shook violently. Hundreds of blood blades turned into streaks of bloody light and slashed down together.
For a moment, blade qi crisscrossed above the small courtyard.
In the blink of an eye, the small courtyard was razed to the ground.
The Heavenly Net Blood Blade Formation overhead fell still once more.
"Auntie Nian, take some people down to search. That strike must have gravely wounded him, but it certainly couldn't have killed him outright."
Demoness Su Su spoke to the old woman beside her.
The old woman nodded, then told the two Corpse-Soul Puppets concealed in the night behind her, "Protect the young miss."
"Yes."
The two Corpse-Soul Puppets inclined their heads, poking two hideously ugly heads out of the black fog shrouding their bodies.
"You little madman, we'll settle our grudges, old and new, one by one!"
Seeing that she was about to capture Xu Taiping, Demoness Su Su licked her lips, a gleam of excitement flashing in her uncanny eyes.
Shing!
But just then, a streak of blade light suddenly tore through the night sky, slashing straight toward Demoness Su Su.
Boom!
The two Corpse-Soul Puppets beside