Although Xiao Yu's battle with the Emperor of Yue seemed long in the telling, the entire encounter had lasted only a few breaths.
The Emperor of Yue's true strength certainly amounted to more than this. Had he been allowed to merge with his avatar, he would have ranked among the very strongest cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage.
But Xiao Yu had launched a sudden ambush with all his firepower unleashed, even playing his trump card of a single-use talisman treasure. The Emperor of Yue had no time to react further before perishing beneath Xiao Yu's tempest of attacks.
"Ah, no!"
The instant the Emperor of Yue died, a piercing, furious roar rang out from two hundred zhang away.
Xiao Yu turned to look. A middle-aged man in blue was plummeting from the sky more than two hundred zhang away, blood spraying from his mouth.
This middle-aged man in blue was none other than the Emperor of Yue's avatar. When he sensed that his original body was in danger, he immediately interrupted his cultivation and rushed over at full speed, only to arrive a step too late.
The avatar the Emperor of Yue had cultivated was not a true manifestation of the External Avatar Technique. Its soul was merely a small divided soul from the original body, not an independent entity, making him somewhat like an exceptionally advanced sentient puppet.
The connection between them was therefore extremely close. If one suffered an injury, the other would inevitably be affected. In the original story, for instance, when Xuan Gu possessed Han Li's clone, Qu Hun, Han Li might well have suffered a grievous injury on the spot had he not reacted swiftly and withdrawn the divided soul attached to Qu Hun.
Now that Xiao Yu had slain the Emperor of Yue's