"Pear Blossom! Pear Blossom!! Pear Blossom!!!" All of a sudden, the Lord of Shangqing Palace cried out. His body, brimming with true qi, shook violently, and the Xuanyuan Sword phantom he had swung down with all his strength came to an abrupt halt in midair. The Xuanyuan Sword phantom paused for only an instant before the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, vegetation, and trees all shattered into fragments. The Xuanyuan Sword in the Lord of Shangqing Palace's hand flashed with a bronze-colored sword light—the backlash from forcibly drawing back his true qi. Like water, that sword light thundered back into the Lord of Shangqing Palace's body. With a loud boom, an explosion burst from his surface, sending his crown flying and revealing his true appearance!
"Li Xiubai???" Xiao Hua stared at the Lord of Shangqing Palace's face, dumbfounded. Wasn't this the very face of Li Xiubai's corpse that Xiao Hua had seen in the sword cave within Mo Ran Black Forest?
"Damn it, what... what in the world is going on?" Xiao Hua groaned, his mind a complete muddle.
The Lord of Shangqing Palace paid no attention to anything else, merely staring fixedly at that peerless sword radiance! Though he had withdrawn his sword in time, how formidable was the Xuanyuan Sword? And how formidable was Nine Stars Eclipse the Sun? When the two collided, in but an instant, the beautiful fairy's figure and that love-sorrow, impossible to cut apart and only more tangled when sorted, had already dimmed!
"Pear Blossom..." the Lord of Shangqing Palace murmured weakly, as though he could no longer even lift the Xuanyuan Sword. "You... you..."
"She has already fallen," Wenqu said faintly from the side. "Within these nine Sword Pellets, only some of her resentment and sorrow remained. Now that she has come here