Bai Yanqiu was no fool. She took out the Demon Refining Pot and secretly glanced at Abbess Jingyi. The faint regret that surfaced on Abbess Jingyi's face put her completely at ease!
She silently circulated her true qi and formed a hand seal. The Demon Refining Pot flew into the air, passed straight through the many barriers, and gradually approached the central throne... At this sight, a fierce glint flashed through Abbess Jingyi's eyes, and her left hand unconsciously reached into her robes... Master Changsheng did the same, the prayer beads in his hand spinning at great speed... But at that very moment, a sudden change erupted. Before Bai Yanqiu could form another seal and open the Demon Refining Pot's lid to draw the central throne inside, a thunderclap burst from the plaque hanging high above the throne. An extremely thin bolt of violet lightning appeared out of thin air and struck the Demon Refining Pot in midair!
With a crackling "sizzle," the Demon Refining Pot, regarded by the Divine Blade Sect as its treasured sect artifact, failed to last even the time it took to snap one's fingers beneath the violet lightning before vanishing into nothingness!
"Ah—" Before the distant Bai Yanqiu, who controlled the Demon Refining Pot, could savor even a trace of joy, she let out a miserable scream. Two streams of blood flowed from the corners of her mouth. Clutching her chest, she collapsed amid the white clouds!
At the sight, Abbess Jingyi and Master Changsheng both let out long breaths of relief, secretly rejoicing. Judging from Bai Yanqiu's state, not only had the Demon Refining Pot, her sect's treasured artifact, been utterly destroyed, but her heart and lungs had suffered grievous internal injuries as well. Within this immortal residence, she likely could no longer do