"Bang!"
As the two spoke, a dozen or so hands with sharp black claws suddenly broke through the ice wall sealing the Rakshasa Gate, throwing the frozen gate completely open.
"Boom!"
Amid a deafening explosion, dozens of Rakshasa Ghost Mothers charged out of the Rakshasa Gate with shrill howls, filling the sky as they lunged toward Fairy Lingyue ahead.
"See? We never should have let Jingkong open the Rakshasa Gate!"
"Even if this senior can kill them all, it will take tremendous effort. She might even get hurt."
Watching this unfold, Zhu Huai spoke with regret written all over his face.
"That isn't necessarily so."
Zhang Tianze still held firmly to his own judgment.
"Taiping, how much have you remembered?"
Before Fire Cloud Temple, Fairy Lingyue breathed a mouthful of Frost-Cleaving Breath infused with blade qi at the Rakshasa Ghost Mothers, then immediately asked Xu Taiping in her mind.
"I've remembered it all!"
Xu Taiping answered with absolute certainty.
"Very good."
The corners of Fairy Lingyue's mouth lifted at his reply.
Then, loosening her joints and stretching her muscles, she watched another few dozen Rakshasa Ghost Mothers fly out of the Rakshasa Gate ahead. "Now your big sister can let loose and give her muscles a proper stretch."
At this point, she suddenly closed her eyes and concentrated, recalling something, before murmuring:
"It's been so long since I last used a sword. I wonder how much of my old power I can bring out."
With that, she raised her right hand, eyes still closed, and formed a sword gesture.
"Sword, Emerge!"
The moment her voice fell, a Sword Cry resounded through heaven and earth.
The Cloud Emergence Sword shot skyward from the Sword Case, then swept back above Fairy Lingyue's head with a thousand-foot gleam like sunset clouds, hanging