C248 Saintly qi

The devil shadow's seventh palm struck towards Qi Tianyu who was about to land on the ground, but with a flap of the wings that Zhu Liner had transformed into, she actually used her own body to help Qi Tianyu block this attack.

Zhu Liner suffered such heavy injuries, the Rosefinch Fire on her body became much dimmer. During the process of falling, Zhu Liner had recovered to human form, so before she landed, she took out a jade pendant and offered it to her.

Zhu Liner held up the jade pendant, causing it to instantly shatter in mid air, and a hazy figure walked out.

Qi Tianyu looked at the jade pendant with an understanding expression. As the successor to Rosefinch Dynasty, how could that Old Saint not have methods to protect Zhu Liner's life? Last time, when Zhu Liner was outside of the Nanyang Capital City, he was caught unprepared by Qi Tianyu due to her carelessness.

Now, in the nick of time, Zhu Liner had directly used his life saving technique. That was a forbidden weapon personally crafted by the Old Saint s of Rosefinch Dynasty and it contained a strand of Old Saint's energy, which she used to save him at critical moments.

The Old Saint of the Rosefinch Dynasty appeared in midair and blocked Zhu Liner's falling momentum. He very gently placed Zhu Liner on the ground, then turned around and looked at the devil shadow.

"The spirit of an old saint." The demonic shadow's vision was not ordinary, and it immediately recognized the origin of this strand of sage aura.

"He is my descendant. I want her to live." The voice of the Rosefinch Dynasty Old Saint did not contain the slightest bit of emotion, it was extremely cold.

"You think that just a strand of incomplete Qi will be able to save your life?" The demonic shadow did not talk to the Old Saint, but instead, it looked at Zhu Liner who was on the ground and revealed a mocking smile.

It was not that the Demon Shadow did not care about a saint, but it was because the refinement of the saint's aura was not perfect. It only contained some of the power of the Old Saint and a sliver of the will to protect Zhu Liner. They didn't have the ability to communicate.

"Even if it's only a strand of the aura of my Sect, your strength at the peak of the tenth stage of the Heaven-rank cannot possibly kill me under his hands." With the protection of the wisp of Rosefinch Dynasty and the aura from the Old Saint, Zhu Liner was not afraid in the slightest when facing the devil shadow.

The Demon Shadow looked at Zhu Liner and coldly spat out these four words, "It's only Saint-rank."

It was just Saint-rank, yet no one within the entire Rosefinch Dynasty dared to say such words. However, the words that came out of the mouth of the devil shadow, which had been sealed for ten thousand years, seemed to have a lot of credibility.

The other demonic phantoms had already disposed of all the rogue cultivators. Originally, there were close to ten thousand rogue cultivators who had spent all their energy to get to this secret realm, but now, there were only a few hundred of them who managed to luckily leave behind their lives and charged into the third floor.

Sixteen devils stood in the air, looking at the energy created by the Rosefinch Dynasty. Not a single one of them revealed any fear in front of this saint's power, even though their strength had been damaged to such a degree, a single Saint-rank was still nothing to them.

The demon shadow that was fighting with Qi Tianyu previously retreated. He and Qi Tianyu had consumed a lot of energy, and although he had not put the aura of a single Old Saint in his eyes, he had not acted arrogantly, and had chosen to let the other demon shadows handle this strand of energy from the Rosefinch Dynasty instead.

Even though it sounded very long, it was actually only a couple of breaths of time since Zhu Liner activated his Rosefinch Dynasty. The aura of the Rosefinch Dynasty Old Saint had an instinct to battle, and directly reached out towards the sixteen devils with a flaming hand.

Close to a hundred zhang away, just as the saint raised his hand, the flaming hand arrived in front of one of the demonic shadows, crushing it with the aura of a saint.

"How laughable." The selected demon shadow snorted coldly as a sword appeared in his hand. He turned out to be a sword cultivator. Qi Tianyu only felt the sound of his own Sword Bone on the ground, as if it wanted to compete with the Sword Cultivator in terms of the height of the sword intent.

The sword wielder's long sword in the hand of the Sword Cultivator drew an opening in the air with a kind of sacred art, the cold Sword Qi on the sword went up to meet the fire hand used by the saint.

The blazing hand grabbed through the air in an attempt to capture the sword cultivator's Shadow. The sword in the sword moved, stabbing into the palm of the flaming hand.

If it was said that Qi Tianyu had walked the path of breaking all laws in his battle with the same realm as him, then this sword cultivator's devil shadow had walked the path of breaking all laws in one slash when he clashed with the saint's aura.

The Sword Cultivator had immediately spied on the weak point of the big hand, and thrusted out with his sword to cut off the communication between the big hand and the outside world's spirit energy. Without the support of the outside world's spirit energy, the technique a saint could use was not much stronger than Heaven-rank.

The tip of the sword pierced the palm of the big hand, the Sword Qi contained in the sword erupted, the big hand of fire was ripped into pieces by the sword spirit's Sword Qi.

The Saint was not alarmed by the destruction of his hand. He attacked once again, which was already much more powerful than before. The figure of a Vermillion Bird began to gather in the Saint's hand, becoming more and more powerful. Finally, the Vermillion Bird flapped its wings and flew away from the Saint's hand.

This was one of the few sacred arts that had been passed down since ancient times in the Rosefinch Dynasty.

Although the energy body of the Vermillion Bird was not big, the might it possessed was not to be underestimated.

The sword cultivator withdrew his sword and returned back to the group of sixteen. He did not try to stop the energy form of the Vermillion Bird.

Zhu Liner recognized the demon shadow. It was he who had made the first move, grabbing and killing hundreds of rogue cultivators and then devouring them all.

As the demonic shadow waved its hands in the air, a black hole appeared in his chest. Qi Tianyu felt that this move was familiar, wasn't this the move that Lin Tianze used when he was defeated? But compared to the demon mirage in front of him, Lin Tianze wasn't even fart.

In the blink of an eye, the black hole had expanded to a size of ten feet. Even the light around the black hole had been completely devoured.

The black hole was driven by the Demon Shadow, directly engulfing the energy Vermillion Bird. Endless amounts of devouring power filled the black hole, as the Demon Shadow actually wanted to devour the energy Vermillion Bird and refine it.

Under the control of the Saint's Qi, the energy Vermillion Bird flew out of the black hole, finally colliding with it in the air.