Just as Xu Taiping was about to stop Second Senior Brother, a familiar voice reached his mind-
"Taiping, don't do anything. This is my choice as your Second Senior Brother."
Xu Taiping looked up at the voice, just in time to see a smile appear on Second Senior Brother's face, flickering between light and shadow within the Heavenly Thunder Sword Formation.
Then an arm suddenly grew back from the stump of his severed arm. But this arm was covered in crimson scales, and its hand was shaped like a claw.
Qingxiao then used that dragon-claw-like hand to pull the Bone Sword from the ground. Gripping its hilt with both hands, he began loudly reciting an obscure, incomprehensible incantation.
"That's the Dragon Clan's Deity-Descending Spell."
Fairy Lingyue's voice sounded in Xu Taiping's mind.
Almost at the same moment her voice rang out, Dugu Qingxiao's aura surged higher once again, and another dragon roar thundered forth.
In an instant, flame lotuses filled the Heavenly Thunder Sword Formation. From a distance, it looked like a glass bottle packed with lotus blossoms.
At this sight, Xu Taiping knew he could hesitate no longer. He immediately said to Fairy Lingyue:
"Sister Lingyue, I..."
Clatter!
Before he could finish, a chain wound around him like a long snake, binding him from head to toe.
Xu Taiping turned back in surprise and discovered that the person who had bound him was actually Xu Ziyan, the Senior Sister from the Sixth Peak.
Xu Ziyan seemed to guess what Xu Taiping wanted to ask and immediately said with a bitter smile:
"Your Second Senior Brother told me to do this."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping understood, thinking:
So Second Senior Brother planned from the very beginning to sacrifice himself to eliminate the Sect Master.
Boom!
Just as Xu Ziyan stopped