"Eldest Brother!"
"Taiping!"
Bai Yu and Ping'an rushed to Xu Taiping's door, one after the other.
Boom!
But just as the two pushed open the door and prepared to rush inside, a fierce surge of blade qi swept toward them like a torrent, carrying the ringing tremor of metal and stone.
For a moment, neither Ping'an nor Bai Yu dared move.
They felt as though moving even a single finger might cost them their lives.
"I told you to knock before coming in."
Just then, Xu Taiping, who had been sitting cross-legged on the floor, slowly rose to his feet.
In an instant, the blade qi rushing toward Ping'an and Bai Yu receded swiftly like the tide, returning to Xu Taiping without a trace left behind.
"Phew..."
Bai Yu let out a long breath.
He had never expected that he, already a great yao among Demon Kings, would actually be cowed by a strand of blade intent.
And the person emanating that blade intent was merely at half-step Spirit Refining.
"Eldest Brother, your Demon-Slaying Blade has reached great completion, hasn't it?"
Ping'an leaped onto Xu Taiping.
But the moment he landed on Xu Taiping's shoulder, Xu Taiping's entire body suddenly burst apart with a bang, turning into a cloud of yellow and white qi.
"I'm over here."
In a corner of the room, a figure lifted away a cloak and slowly stood up.
This was Xu Taiping's true body.
The one who had just released the blade intent was his Mysterious Origin Life-Bound Clone.
"Xu Taiping, was that the clone that can cultivate in your place?"
Bai Yu flew down onto Xu Taiping's shoulder, his voice full of wonder.
"Yes."
Xu Taiping nodded.
Xu Taiping had mentioned the Mysterious Origin Life-Bound Clone to Bai Yu in passing when he first