"Wooo~~~" A soft sword hum rang out again, like a flute note amid restless chaos—exceptionally cool, exceptionally shrill—piercing straight into everyone's ears from dozens of miles beyond Xuntian City!
Snowy Realm True Person and the others' hearts jolted. Before they could sweep out their divine senses, similar sword hums rang out simultaneously from the other three sides of Xuntian City!
Then, beyond the multicolored sword lights in the distance, a faint azure glow rose from the ground, ascending toward the high sky with extreme slowness!
"There..." Before Snowy Realm True Person could make out that azure light, True Person Miyou was startled again. In the direction of his pointing finger, another azure light rose in the far distance to their left, facing the first one. Though they were separated by a tremendous distance, that azure glow shone as brightly as a shooting star, utterly unobscured by the sword lights of battle or the radiance of the spell formations!
"The other two sides... must have them as well!" Snowy Realm True Person did not turn his head. The other two sides were too far away to be seen.
Sure enough, before half a cup of tea had passed, five pillar-like azure lights shot straight into the high sky! Those five azure lights resembled five Qing Bi bamboo stalks, incomparably proud and incomparably upright, as though they intended to poke a hole through the heavens!
"What is this..." Snowy Realm True Person was utterly baffled. "Could it be... they intend to break the city with these five sword pillars alone?"
Yet at that very moment, "Rumble rumble~" A heaven-shaking, earth-quaking tremor rose from beneath Xuntian City. The entire city swayed. Along with the rumbling, layer upon layer of snow-white filaments of light abruptly appeared out of thin air in the sky. These