Fierce winds howled.
Around the great ships, the Jade Pot Realm cultivators floated in the void, their expressions grave.
The Divine Corpse Big Yellow, who had emerged from the Water-Covering Staff, stood silently as waves of air stirred the shadows shrouding him.
Behind him, the Slender Old Man looked stunned.
Wang Ba held a yellow paper talisman suspended between his fingers and calmly looked at the Slender Old Man as well.
On the Sacred Defilement Realm's side, delight shone in Gan Xiong's eyes, while the other cultivators looked utterly bewildered.
For a time, this stretch of void was extraordinarily quiet.
But the silence did not last long. The Slender Old Man recovered, his expression growing more solemn. Staring fixedly at Wang Ba, he said in a low voice:
"A second one... I misjudged you. But I don't believe you have any more."
Wang Ba smiled faintly.
"You are welcome to try, Daoist Changying."
The Slender Old Man's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Is that so... then let's try!"
Before his words had faded, the Divine Corpse Big Yellow vanished eerily from his spot, then appeared before Wang Ba like a specter. His palm, wreathed in astonishing Death Qi, came crashing down at Wang Ba!
"Watch out, Daoist Taiyi!"
Gan Xiong shouted urgently in a low voice.
Unruffled, Wang Ba pointed with two fingers, and a scabbard phantom flew out.
The scabbard was a Supreme Primordial Dao Treasure, so its Scabbard Phantom was astonishingly fast, barely slower than the Divine Corpse Big Yellow. Carrying the yellow paper talisman, it struck Big Yellow almost instantaneously!
Big Yellow's body dented slightly where the blow landed, but perhaps because Wang Ba had not refined the treasure sufficiently, it failed to break through. That was enough, however. As the scabbard phantom struck, the yellow paper talisman landed