"Perhaps so!" Bai Shumin nodded.
"Ice Spirit Body?"
"I never thought the Ice Spirit Body, which the Southern Sea Sword Demon had always sought, would ultimately perish under this body. How ironic!"
"But what does it matter even if it is the Ice Spirit Body? Before me, all spirit bodies are merely my nourishment!"
"Today, all of you shall die!"
King Xuanwu shouted, extending two fingers again, sending two streams of dark energy towards the pair.
Bai Shumin, standing in front of Lu Yang, also pointed two fingers, and two ice cones shot towards the dark energy, instantly colliding and dissipating without a trace.
Seeing that his attack was ineffective against Bai Shumin, King Xuanwu immediately struck towards her with his palm.
"Shumin, be careful!" Lu Yang cried out, summoning the Black Dragon Token and slashing directly at King Xuanwu.
"Black Dragon Token?"
"Hmph!" King Xuanwu snorted coldly, diverting his attention and drawing out the Heaven Slaying Sword. He clashed with Lu Yang's Black Dragon Token, and the two immediately engaged in combat. Both the Black Dragon Token and the Heaven Slaying Sword were spiritual artifacts, and for a time, they fought fiercely, unable to gain an advantage.
However, King Xuanwu had already stepped into the realm of Landed Immortals. Soon, he gained the upper hand, and his sword struck Lu Yang's shoulder. Lu Yang's five-colored battle armor was instantly activated, and the sword left no visible wound on him. However, the immense sword energy sent Lu Yang flying backward, crashing heavily onto the ground.
"Lu Yang!" Bai Shumin rushed over and helped Lu Yang up.
"I'm fine, hurry and leave, I'll hold him off here!" Lu Yang immediately said to Bai Shumin.
"No, if we go, we go together; if we die, we die together!" Bai Shumin stated directly.
Lu Yang was slightly stunned by Bai Shumin's words, surprised that this little girl now wanted to share his life and death. This meant that the matter of yin and yang harmony should not be too difficult.
"You want to die together? Very well, I shall grant you your wish now!" King Xuanwu sneered and unleashed another sword strike, a massive wave of sword energy surging towards them.
"Black Dragon Token, slash!" Lu Yang stepped forward, swinging the Black Dragon Token. Instantly, a black dragon materialized from the token, charging towards the sword strike.
With a "boom," the black dragon and the sword energy collided, exploding in the air. Both Lu Yang and King Xuanwu were forced back several steps, as Lu Yang's strike was no match for King Xuanwu's.
"Let's see how many of my strikes you can withstand!" King Xuanwu said, unleashing another sword strike. This one was far more powerful than the previous one, as if all the power of heaven and earth had been drawn out and converged onto the great sword, slashing towards Lu Yang and Bai Shumin.
Seeing the power of this strike, Lu Yang did not attempt to block it directly. Instead, he pulled Bai Shumin and leaped towards an open space nearby. The spot where they had stood moments before was now split by a chasm-like沟壑 from the power of the sword strike. If they had remained there, they would have been turned into mincemeat.
"Slash again!" King Xuanwu declared, significantly increasing the speed of his sword energy. Three strikes were unleashed towards Lu Yang and Bai Shumin.
Lu Yang knew that even if he tried to dodge this time, there would be nowhere to hide. He immediately pushed the power of his five-colored battle armor to its limit and met King Xuanwu's attack head-on.
With a "bang," King Xuanwu's sword struck Lu Yang directly, colliding with the five-colored battle armor on his body, emitting a world-shattering sound. After being struck by this sword, Lu Yang's five-colored battle armor vanished.
"Haha, the five-colored battle armor is nothing special, shattered by my sword strike! Without the five-colored battle armor, what other life-saving artifacts do you possess?" King Xuanwu's face revealed a smug expression upon seeing his sword shatter the five-colored battle armor.
Lu Yang, who had fallen to the ground, was clearly injured. Without the five-colored battle armor, if King Xuanwu struck again, they would be doomed. For a moment, Lu Yang did not know what to do.
"Die!" King Xuanwu roared, raising the Heaven Slaying Sword once more and slashing towards Lu Yang.
At this moment, a golden light flew out, heading directly for King Xuanwu's head. Lu Tianfeng had made his move. He had been hiding in the shadows, waiting for the best opportunity to use his Golden Silkworm Gu for a surprise attack on King Xuanwu. Lu Tianfeng knew King Xuanwu's abilities, and the Golden Silkworm Gu would not be of much use, but it could buy Lu Yang a moment of reprieve, giving him a chance to survive.
Indeed, the appearance of the Golden Silkworm Gu interrupted King Xuanwu's plan. The sword strike went wide, failing to kill Lu Yang and Bai Shumin.
"Lu Yang, hurry and take her to escape!" Lu Tianfeng shouted loudly. Lu Yang immediately nodded, grabbed Bai Shumin's hand, and fled.
"Golden Silkworm Gu?"
"Lu Tianfeng, I never expected you to raise the Golden Silkworm Gu so well. It is truly a treasure. When I obtained the Golden Silkworm Gu, I didn't intend to focus on nurturing this thing. Now it seems its power is indeed formidable!"
"Since you have raised it so well for me, I shall reward you with death!" King Xuanwu sneered and struck towards Lu Tianfeng with his palm.
"Black Dragon Sword, kill!" Lu Tianfeng also drew out his Black Dragon Sword and charged towards King Xuanwu. However, Lu Tianfeng lasted only two moves against King Xuanwu. In the first move, King Xuanwu broke one of his arms holding the Black Dragon Sword. In the second move, King Xuanwu struck Lu Tianfeng with his palm, crushing him into a pulp.
Lu Tianfeng was dead.
"Father!" Seeing his father perish at the hands of King Xuanwu, Lu Yang was overcome with extreme pain.
"I shall send you down to accompany your father now!" King Xuanwu said with a cold smile, stepping forward to block the path between Lu Yang and Bai Shumin, sneering repeatedly.
"King Xuanwu, you killed my father, and I will make you die!" Lu Yang no longer wished to escape. His eyes were filled with a crimson glow. All he wanted now was to kill King Xuanwu and avenge his father.
"With you?"
"You are not even worth a glance!" King Xuanwu sneered and punched towards Lu Yang.
"Kill!" Lu Yang roared and met King Xuanwu's punch with his own. His "Earth Collapse Mountain Shatter" punch, upon contact with King Xuanwu's fist, was directly smashed away, and his arm was instantly broken!
"Thousand Miles Frozen!" Seeing that Lu Yang was no match for King Xuanwu, Bai Shumin let out a low growl. Her eyes flickered with two snow mountains, which instantly erupted, covering the surrounding hundred meters into an icy and snowy world. Within this world of ice and snow, Bai Shumin and Lu Yang isolated King Xuanwu from the outside.