"Buzz!"
Yet just as the three sides remained locked in a stalemate, a ripple of spatial energy suddenly came from overhead.
The unexpected sound made everyone present snap their heads upward. They saw a pitch-black banner pole, roughly as tall as a person and trailing thick black mist, plunging viciously toward Gu Xun'er below.
An aura of utter deathly stillness and icy cold spread, filling Gu Xun'er with a sense of imminent danger. Gu Yuan beside her felt it too.
Their expressions changed, and they swiftly retreated.
The banner pole slammed into the spot they had just occupied.
Then the banner cloth shook violently, releasing a mass of black mist that shrouded the sky above.
Within that dense darkness, countless pairs of crimson eyes suddenly flickered into existence.
Every pair of eyes was bloodthirsty and savage, brimming with murderous intent!
"Aah! Aah!"
In an instant, countless fiends burst out of the black mist, shrieking piercingly as they hurtled toward Gu Xun'er.
But instead of rushing forward to tear into her, the fiends stopped around Gu Xun'er, arranging themselves into an eerie formation.
Then, with the Yin Soul Banner at its center, a vast surge of icy energy spread outward and enveloped Gu Xun'er.
At once, Gu Xun'er discovered that the temperature of the flames she controlled was plummeting beneath this Yin Qi!
Her expression immediately hardened. She moved, trying to escape the area shrouded in Yin Qi.
But in the next instant, space rippled behind her. A silver beam, like a merciless blade gleaming with cold light, shot through the air and struck her back, piercing straight through her chest!
"Pfft!"
A mouthful of golden blood sprayed out, and Gu Xun'er was sent flying!
Everything happened in a single instant, catching everyone utterly off guard. Before even the Emperor Grade