A gust of wind swept through.
Then the wind stopped.
Inside the Ninth Fan Room, One Sword Fox snored in an utterly indecent posture, drool flowing backward into her hair...
Liansheng sat before the guzheng table with her eyes closed, utterly unconcerned by the commotion outside the fan room.
Because the main body was nearby, and having the clone fall into deep sleep was the greatest support for the main body's divine sense.
Inside the Heavenly Character Pavilion's Waiting Hall.
The air seemed to have frozen solid.
The sound of the wind faded, leaving only the creaking of the windows opening and closing.
Xiao Bai threw himself sideways in front of Mu Yun's attack.
It happened just like that... in a bizarre way no one had expected.
Mu Yun, who had yet to reveal herself, was first stunned, then heartbroken.
She could not understand why Xiao Bai had suddenly risked his life to save someone completely unrelated to him.
Was he simply too dedicated to his work, or had Huang Biaobing's words moved him enough that he wanted a little excitement?
What was even stranger was that, with Xiao Bai's Qi Refining Realm footwork and speed, even if his Xiahou Body Technique had reached the pinnacle, there was no way he could have outrun her ambush.
It was as if he had known her attack route in advance and chosen the most perfect angle to block it.
And stranger still... he was alive.
One had to know that her Darkness Flower could instantly kill any cultivator below the Golden Core Realm and severely wound Golden Core cultivators. Only Nascent Soul Cultivators could defend against it without injury!
Yet Xiao Bai, with merely Qi Refining cultivation, had been soaked head to toe in the Darkness Flower and still remained alive with