"Yes, this disciple understands!" The disciple named Jiming nodded. "While attacking, we will also watch over the other disciples. We will save however many we can!"
"Mm." Zhu Chengye nodded. Sword light began to flicker around him, dyed a brilliant crimson. "Rise!" With a sweep of Zhu Chengye's hand, a gleaming scarlet little sword flew forth. Its sword light was dazzling, its sword qi pressing. The nearby mist was immediately forced back several zhang, and tiny whirlwinds even curled up and poured into the little sword. The sword light gradually expanded, and a crimson sun slowly emerged from the sword!
"Go!" As Zhu Chengye activated the Crimson Sun Sword Intent, that crimson sun plunged into the azure banner gate, like the rising sun at the edge of the heavens! Yet this rising sun was far too dazzling—dazzling enough to kill!
"Buzz—" As the Crimson Sun Sword Intent neared the banner gate, ripples spread across its azure surface. When the crimson sun entered it, it was like a stone striking the reflected sky in water, overturning the entire azure expanse and revealing a passage within. Even after the crimson sun passed through, that passage remained there!
Zhu Chengye's figure flowed. Though he did not transform into a rainbow, he became like a streak of light as he followed the crimson sun into the passage.
Within the banner gate was a vast azure sky, with no distinction between up, down, left, or right, enclosing the entire space!
With a soft crack, seemingly from an immense distance away yet also seemingly close at hand, a patch of white cloud appeared in the azure. Dexun of the Taiqing Sect appeared, dressed in a Taoist robe, a whisk in one hand and a banner in the other.
"The Heavenly Dao is boundless, its mysteries many;