"Where did a cicada come from at a time like this? No, I have to take a look before I die..."
Though her consciousness grew increasingly hazy, Chu Xiaoxiao's boundless curiosity was still stirred by that cicada cry.
Driven by this powerful obsession, she struggled to lift her head.
Then she saw a snow-bright blade mark appear a foot or two in front of the Ghost King's chest, while another four or five feet farther back stood a young man holding a blade.
"Brother Xu! Brother Xu isn't dead?!"
Chu Xiaoxiao recognized the young man.
Xu Taiping was, of course, not dead. What had died was merely his "clone."
Even before entering Heaven-Character Room Number One, he had kept suspecting that, in the images his left eye had seen, the person with the Cross-Shaped Scar on his hand and the one with the Ghost Pagoda mark on his back were two different people. That was why he had thought of using this method to lure out the second Ghost King.
Whoosh!
Almost simultaneously, a piercing sound tore through the air, followed by a fierce surge of blade qi that passed straight through the Ghost King's burly body, leaving a deep blade mark on the wall behind him, which was covered in Ghost Pagoda marks.
Thud!
The Demon-Slaying Blade's unique blade qi destroyed this body of the Ghost King's, leaving him unable even to stand.
Yet Xu Taiping could clearly sense that, as the Ghost Pagoda marks on the surrounding walls continued to multiply, the fluctuations of aura within the Ghost King were still climbing sharply.
Just as Chongde had said before, as long as the Ghost Pagoda marks remained, the Ghost King could not be killed. He could only be sealed first.
"Dharma Master Chongde."
Xu Taiping looked up at