"Shut up!"
Zhao Lanjun snapped, stealing a quick glance at Lu Changfeng beside her. His expression was calm, as though none of this had anything to do with him. She sighed inwardly. Her Highness wishes she could erase every trace of her past involving male favorites. Why would she see him again? Especially in front of Lu Changfeng!
Her thoughts raced, but she said no more. With a slight shift, she struck-straight at Yin Xuanhe, utterly disregarding whether Gao Jian lived or died!
Sensing danger, Yin Xuanhe immediately hurled Gao Jian at Zhao Lanjun, hoping to delay her for a moment. At the same time, he let out a piercing howl, black vapor surging around him as he unleashed the Serpent Bone Arcane Art!
His cultivation was clearly superior to Snake Slave's. He could already wield Bashé's divine abilities without first taking serpent form!
Crack, crack, crack!
Amid a teeth-grating crunch of bones, his body suddenly shrank to the size of a seven-year-old child. Zhao Lanjun swept Gao Jian toward the nearby Inner Guards with a gust from her palm, then struck at Yin Xuanhe with her other hand, only for his shrinking body to narrowly evade her first blow.
Before Zhao Lanjun could change her attack, Yin Xuanhe abruptly swelled to thirty feet tall. His right leg swept toward her head like a mountain-cleaving axe, carrying a foul gust of deadly poison!
Bang!
Zhao Lanjun turned her palm and met the kick head-on. Frigid energy collided with poisonous force in a muffled thunderclap. The escaping shock waves rippled outward, tearing up every bluestone slab in the courtyard.
Yin Xuanhe used the recoil to fly backward, then violently shook both arms in midair-
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two prosthetics that had been masquerading as his arms detached and shot toward Zhao