Chapter 169 — The Beast Lord
The Sword Questions the Heavens · Page 7 of 7
In an instant a gale rose all around; with the two men in midair at its center, an invisible shockwave surged outward, and the trees nearby were torn up by the roots and sent flying. At the heart of the storm, a flash of pain crossed both their faces almost at the same moment—and over Ming Li's face there passed, moreover, a faint trace of strange golden light.
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This duel at the rear mountain of Receiving-Heaven Peak, as the wind blew across the high ridges and peaks and carried it afar, had by then grown too faint to hear—and besides, in heaven above and on earth below, among all things in the world, who still had thought to spare for them?
In the sky there was a more important contest of sorcery still to come!
Only, amid the crowd, Lu Xueling's body suddenly gave a shudder for no reason, and across her face, strangely enough, a faint golden gleam flickered past. She turned her head in astonishment, her body somewhat stiff, and gazed far into the distance—to that remote, desolate place at the rear mountain...