"Boom!"
In a single breath, the wall of Gang Wind before Dongfang Yuejian shattered, leaving only the blue feather still shielding her.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"
After the Gang Wind wall shattered, four enormous sabers wreathed in flames swung down in alternation over Dongfang Yuejian's head, hacking the feather before her to pieces.
Despite the distance, the cultivators watching from the surrounding stands could still feel the tremendous might of the long sabers in the two puppets' hands through the Gang Wind spreading outward from the impacts.
Yet the instant the feather shattered, it exploded with a boom into a fiercely raging mass of Gang Wind, knocking the four enormous sabers away from Dongfang Yuejian with a bang.
In that brief opening alone, Dongfang Yuejian, who had remained utterly motionless, suddenly drew a brush from her sleeve.
Then, holding the brush between her fair, slender fingers, she gave a light, effortless flick of her wrist and wrote over a hundred runes before her, using Spiritual Power transformed from her own True Essence as ink.
These runes, shimmering with a blue-green halo, swiftly gathered into one enormous "mountain" character.
"Boom!"
At that very moment, the two enormous humanoid puppets controlled by Gongshu Bai steadied themselves once more and swung their sabers at Dongfang Yuejian.
Though the two puppets' blade techniques had no beauty to speak of, they were fast enough, heavy enough, and the True Fire clinging to them was powerful enough.
Thus, even some of the blade cultivators present could not help feeling their hearts tremble at the sight of that strike.
They felt that if a dozen or so of these humanoid puppets came at once, even a Martial God might be no match for them.
"Whoosh, whoosh!"
But just as the two puppets swung their sabers, the two