The entire gathering instantly fell into deathly silence.
The Primordial Remnants that had just been unleashing their oppressive auras and glaring at Shi Hou's group felt their eyelids twitch wildly and instinctively reined in their presence.
The vast entrance to the Treasure-Splitting Cliff was so quiet that not even a bird could be heard.
A pureblood Feiyi with ferocious might that surged to the heavens had failed to last even two exchanges.
Its skull had been shattered by a single punch, and Golden Lightning had roasted its body until a rich, charred aroma wafted from it.
The Luan Bird, still diving toward Shi Hou from midair, saw this and felt its blazing fury doused with an icy chill straight through the heart.
It beat its multicolored wings desperately, wrenching itself into a twisted arc in midair before soaring upward, trying to flee into the clouds.
"Isn't it a little late to leave now?"
Shi Hou sneered.
He kicked off hard with both legs. The ground collapsed with a thunderous crash, and he shot skyward like a black blade, closing the distance to the Luan Bird in an instant.
The muscles in his arm bulged as the Purple Thunder Stone Knife in his hand traced a dazzling streak of violet lightning through the air.
A fifty-meter-long gray blade light ripped through the air, bearing unstoppable murderous force as it cleaved straight toward the Luan Bird's slender neck.
The Luan Bird was frightened nearly out of its soul.
Its piercing cry tore through the sky. Multicolored runes burned frantically across its body, forming layer upon layer of light shields in an attempt to block the strike.
Just as the blade was about to fall-
"Big-big brother! Please spare it!"
On the ground, all of the Nine-Headed Lion's golden fur stood on end