Time seemed to freeze abruptly at that moment.
In an instant, every courtier of Southern Mo stood stunned.
Ji Xian froze as well.
She instinctively turned her head.
All she saw was the hideous sword wound in Lu Changfeng's chest, blood pouring from it. The blade seemed to have been steeped in deadly poison; in mere moments, a horrifying blue-black pallor spread rapidly across his gentle, handsome face.
Lu Changfeng let out a muffled groan, his body went limp, and he collapsed.
"Changfeng!!!"
In that instant, Ji Xian felt as though an invisible hand had seized her heart and squeezed it so hard it would shatter. Horror, anguish, self-reproach... every emotion transformed into a towering surge of murderous fury, one that threatened to burn heaven and earth to ashes!
Her eyes turned red at once!
In a flash!
The immense earth qi of all Jade Splendor Mount Hua seemed to answer some supreme command, surging thunderously toward her!
Rumble-
Countless chains of mysterious yellow, formed from solidified earth qi, burst out of the ground like ancient dragons awakening after a thousand years. They sealed and shrouded every direction around the assassin!
Then hundreds upon thousands of earth spears, cold and hard as steel, shot madly from the depths of the earth with enough force to shatter stone and pierce metal. They blotted out the sky as they hurtled toward the assassin disguised as "Bai Sheng"!
Though the assassin possessed profound Seventh Realm cultivation, Ji Xian's unrestrained, thunderous strike in her overwhelming rage truly shook heaven and earth. There was nowhere to dodge!
Behind "Bai Sheng," a luminous white jade toad Dharma Form suddenly rose. The sword in his hand became an airtight curtain of light as he desperately parried.
But the assault was simply too violent, too dense. In the