It should be noted that they were rushing at full speed, yet the opponent was still able to send her voice into their ears. Merely this skill has already reached the ‘universally shocking' level.
Kou Zhong made a somersault sideways over the top of the wall of the building to their left, and then he darted across some unknown family's rear garden, and leaped onto the closest roof of the building inside the courtyard.
Like his shadow the other two followed closed behind him and onto the back of the roof.
The three stopped suddenly.
They looked toward the roof of another building ahead.
Under the slanting moonlight, they saw a woman, wearing plain and simple, yet elegant and beautiful, clothes and ornaments, her face was hidden inside thick veil, was standing against the wind, facing them.
A strange, indescribable feeling appeared in the three men's heart. They knew that with the opponent's qinggong, there was absolutely no chance for them to escape.
Her slender figure was graceful; her hair was tied in a bun on top of her head. Although they could not see her flowery countenance, they could feel her elegance and charm that drew people to come to her.
Merely her standing posture had some kind of feeling that would cause people not want to turn their eyes from her; it was also full of extremely subtle tempting insinuation.
In this way, without the need to expose her jade countenance, this woman was still able to exude such a powerful charm, which, even in their dream, the three had never thought about.
Ba Fenghan's tiger-eyes shone with sharp flashes; setting down Shangguan Long slowly, he spoke in heavy voice, "Has ‘Empress Yin' Zhu Yuyan come in person?”
Although Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong had already guessed that it was her, yet this moment hearing Ba Fenghan spoke out her name, they could not help feeling numbness on their scalp.
Another tender shout rang in the three's eardrums. Even with their skill, they felt sharp pain as if their eardrum was pricked with a needle.
Zhu Yuyan suddenly vanished, while at the same time the three felt violent whooshing in their ears, like the sound of the howling wind of the storm.
The howling wind seemed to be growing in intensity like tidal waves; suddenly the whole world seemed to be full of the dreadful sound of the gale's angry roar.
Yet all around, they saw the world was as peaceful as before. Hence they knew that Zhu Yuyan was playing her trick on them.
By the time the sound of the howling wind turned into the sound of thunderstorm, the three were overcome with terrifying feeling as if they were right in the eye of the storm, with howling wind and torrential rain all around them; their bodies felt clammy, their footsteps faltered. It took supreme willpower just to keep their balance.
Such a devilish skill, certainly it was unheard of.
The raging waves crashed onto the shore, the storm surged up violently.
The three were completely at a loss as how Zhu Yuyan could make them feel such an illusion.
They really felt huge waves, taller than the city wall, were crashing down on them with astonishing power.
Xu Ziling was the first to react.
This time it was not an illusion, but Zhu Yuyan, taking advantage while their mind was under her control, was launching a surprised attack.
In this critical junction between life and death, Xu Ziling calmed down. Although his eardrums were still confused by the demonic noise, his perception was as calm as the moon in the well, he did not miss everything that was going on around him the least bit.
With a cold shout, his spiraling energy shot out, in the shape of a fist that moved toward the nucleus of the toppling-the-mountain-and-overturning-the-seas ‘gigantic wave' that was crashing down on them.
The gigantic wave suddenly turned into a deep and immeasurable vortex, trying to suck Xu Ziling into it.
But the demonic noise wreaking havoc in his eardrums suddenly vanished, indicating that this acclaimed-to-be the number one martial art master of the demonic school must exert all her strength to be able to fully use this demonic noise; if it weren't like this, probably even Ning Daoqi would be defeated under her hands.
This moment the three already lost the key moment.
Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan regained their senses at the same time. They both drew their saber and sword, and separately attacked Zhu Yuyan, who appeared from the end of the roof slope, from left and right.
A lily-white hand, which surpassed snow and outshined frost, which beauty could be regarded as extraordinary, stretched out from inside the oversized robe sleeve; delicate, slender, which grace was superior to jade, fingers delivered abstruse, difficult to understand, complex movements in the night sky.
This moment Xu Ziling could not hold himself; he was being pulled by her Tian Mo Gong that his body was swiftly flying toward her, while in horror he realized suddenly that the movements of Zhu Yuyan's delicate fingers unexpectedly faintly controlled his quite-possible attack route, and it was as if he was delivering himself to her to be slaughtered.
If Wanwan was a deep and immeasurable pond, then Zhu Yuyan was a vast and boundless ocean.
Wanwan's demonic skill already has myriad changes, so that it was impossible to defend effectively.
But Zhu Yuyan's Tian Mo Da Fa [great method of the devil] has reached the following-one's-heart's-desire', the omnipotent, the acme-of-perfection level.
Xu Ziling was quick-witted by nature; he already sent out his spiraling energy in the opposite direction. Immediately his body lightened, and he broke away from Zhu Yuyan's concentrated Tian Mo Gong's gravitational field.
A gentle, beautiful, and sweet-sounding sigh rang in Xu Ziling's ear. By the time Xu Ziling realized something was not right, a burst of demonic energy, which seemed to be there but not exactly there, was already encroaching the meridian on his right hand right when his spiraling energy was coming to an end.
Xu Ziling had superior ability and wisdom, he had already guessed that she might do this trick, thereupon he spat out a burst of his own spiraling energy.
The two streams of true energy met at the Jianjing acupoint [on the shoulder].
Zhu Yuyan's demonic energy was immediately burst more than half, but there is still one stream of sharp-needle-like swimming energy, which managed to enter his body.
Xu Ziling grunt in pain and staggered back, while spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood. ‘Bonk!' he fell sitting down below Shangguan Long, who was lying on the roof ridge.
‘Huh?' Zhu Yuyan exclaimed in surprise, obviously she was extremely shocked that after receiving her full blast of energy, he still did not lose his life.
Meanwhile Ba Fenghan's Beheading Mystery Sword and Kou Zhong's Moon in the Well arrived at the same time.
Letting out a tender sigh, Zhu Yuyan withdrew her lily-white hand into her sleeve, and then like moving clouds and flowing water she met the two's attack. Left and right, her sleeves swiftly brushed away, heavily whipped the blade of their weapons.
Actually, Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan have already given their all, within less than ten paces of distance they already changed their moves many times, with the purpose of preventing Zhu Yuyan from grasping their momentum path.
Who would have thought that Zhu Yuyan floated to the left and shifted to the right, so that they practically could not grasp her position, and were thus from taking the initiative, they fell into the passive side.
What appeared to be light brushing of the pair of water-and-cloud sleeves, in their eyes were irresolute like gliding bird or leaping fish, with no track to be traced. In just a short period of time they were being whipped by her head on.
This moment Xu Ziling took a deep breath and sprang up; sending out his power via his legs, he shot up to the air, his pair of hands turned into layer upon layer of palm shadows shooting toward Zhu Yuyan.
‘Bang! Bang!'
After two explosive noise of qi clashing against each other, Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan were jolted from head to foot, and fell down to the left and right.
Were it not for the fact that Zhu Yuyan had to divide her power to strike the two at the same time, perhaps just like Xu Ziling earlier, they would have sustained injuries and spurted blood.
Originally Zhu Yuyan was determined to kill one of them, but she did not anticipate that the injured Xu Ziling would attack again. Her fragrant heart could not help feeling greatly surprised.
Meanwhile Kou Zhong and Ba Fenghan regrouped and attacked again from both sides.
Zhu Yuyan let out a tender laughter, both hands turned into myriad sleeve shadows, completely shrouded all three.
For a period of time the sound of clashing qi rang out continuously.
And then the tree men simultaneously hit empty air. Zhu Yuyan already broke away from the three's toppling-the-mountains-and-overturning-the-seas offensive. Floating away toward the roof ridge, she grabbed Shangguan Long's belt and lifted him up as if he had no weight at all.
The three stood side-by-side on the roof spine, all with disheveled hair, and were in such a sorry state.
From behind the veil Zhu Yuyan swept the three with her gaze once; and then she sighed and said, "I'll let you three live two, three days longer! Right now I need to preserve my strength to heal my man. You may go!”
Ba Fenghan smiled slightly and said, "Such a beautiful speech. But just now you, Zhu Hou [Empress Zhu], has tried with all your might but failed to defeat us. That is an indisputable fact.”
Zhu Yuyan spoke softly, "I don't care if it is a fact of not a fact, I'll leave it up to you to decide! Goodbye!”
With a slight sway, she was already far away, carrying Shangguan Long with her, and disappeared into the depths of the splendid light of the City of Luoyang.
With a mortal-danger-escape-alive feeling the three did not dare to tarry too long; they quickly slipped away.