As the silver wolf was about to press its advantage and kill Li Xiaotian, Jian Lin and others arrived.
"Kill!!!"
Jian Lin and the others launched their attacks, with colorful orbs of light flying towards the silver wolf.
"Hmph! A bunch of ants, overestimating yourselves!"
The silver wolf let out a disdainful snort. Without anyone seeing its movement, it vanished from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye, causing all their attacks to miss.
"Such speed!"
Jian Lin and the others exclaimed in shock. But then they realized something was wrong; Li Xiaotian was in danger.
At that moment, the silver wolf was charging towards Li Xiaotian. As it got closer and closer, countless vines suddenly shot out from the ground, blocking its path.
Following that, an unremarkable peach wood sword pierced towards the silver wolf from within the vines.
Seeing this, the silver wolf's eyes were filled with disdain. Without a second thought, it casually swiped a claw, intending to tear apart the vines before it.
However, in the next moment, it abruptly retracted its claw and looked down.
A talisman seal had appeared on its massive claw, and it was experiencing intense pain.
"You shall not pass!"
Zhen Wu emerged from the vines, staring at the silver wolf with a smile and a glint of fighting spirit in his eyes.
If Li Xiaotian could gravely injure a demon overlord, then Zhen Wu, as a young powerhouse of similar caliber, should at least be able to intercept an overlord.
"Roar! You dare seek death!!!"
The silver wolf roared, feeling immense humiliation. It, an overlord, had been provoked by an ant, and now a second ant dared to challenge it. If it didn't rage, where would its overlord's majesty lie?!
"Die!"
The silver wolf pounced on Zhen Wu with extreme speed. In an instant, it tore through the vines before it and reached Zhen Wu, tearing him apart with a single claw.
"Huh?! That's not right!!!"
However, the silver wolf immediately realized that if this person could injure it, how could he die so easily?
But it was too late. Its body suddenly felt a sharp pain that quickly spread throughout its entire being. Simultaneously, the speed it had summoned vanished.
The silver wolf's body was pierced in its waist by Zhen Wu's peach wood sword.
The waist was precisely the soft spot of canine-like demon beasts, including the silver wolf.
"Roar!!! Human! You have enraged this Emperor!"
Seeing this, the silver wolf's eyes immediately turned red. Its killing intent towards Zhen Wu instantly surpassed that for Li Xiaotian, and it turned to attack Zhen Wu directly.
Meanwhile, Li Xiaotian's strength had recovered by more than half, and he charged towards the black dragon again.
At this moment, the black dragon was struggling madly within the demonic energy, its screams of pain echoing continuously.
Previously, in the demonic energy, it had lost its senses, its vital blood had been draining rapidly, and it had still withstood Li Xiaotian's fourth strike, leaving it in a very poor state.
"Die!!"
Li Xiaotian unleashed another saber strike, but the black dragon was, after all, an overlord-level powerhouse. After making one mistake, it had already devised a countermeasure.
"Roar!!! Die!!!"
The black dragon roared, and dense poisonous gas suddenly emanated from its body, entwining with Li Xiaotian's demonic energy.
At the same time, the black dragon let out a sky-shattering roar. One of the twin horns on its head directly snapped off, and a much larger, more ferocious serpent phantom appeared on its body, or rather, enveloped its body.
The black dragon was originally of serpentine lineage and was merely a Flood Dragon at this point. If it had a few more tens of thousands of years, it might have truly transformed into a dragon.
But now, it had self-amputated a dragon horn, sacrificing it to unleash a more powerful technique to resist Li Xiaotian's saber strike, or rather, to kill Li Xiaotian.
"Roar!!!!"
The giant serpent phantom charged forward fiercely, colliding head-on with Li Xiaotian's saber. Despite being a phantom, their collision produced a metallic sound.
Immediately after, Li Xiaotian's saber was knocked flying by the giant serpent phantom. The serpent, with undiminished speed, charged madly towards Li Xiaotian.
Seeing this, Li Xiaotian was preparing to raise his saber to strike again, but the serpent suddenly looked at Li Xiaotian. A strange gleam flickered in its serpentine eyes, and instantly, Li Xiaotian's movements became sluggish.
"Boom!"
In that very instant, Li Xiaotian was sent flying by the giant serpent.
After all, the black dragon was an overlord who had cultivated for countless years. Although it had been gravely injured by Li Xiaotian due to a mistake, when it counterattacked with its full power, it would not repeat the same error.
"Pfft!"
Li Xiaotian spat out blood, his aura weakening. However, the giant serpent caught up in an instant, giving Li Xiaotian no chance to recover.
Li Xiaotian rose abruptly, still raising his saber to meet the attack. This time, however, the demonic sword within him stirred restlessly.
Traces of sword energy were drawn from his body and converged onto the long saber in his hand.
The long saber now looked like a saber, but it gave off the feeling of being a sword. However, this change was very subtle, and only Jian Lin of Sword Pavilion and Li Xiaoyao among those present noticed it.
"Die, ant!!!"
The black dragon's eyes flickered with excitement. It controlled the giant serpent and swallowed Li Xiaotian whole.
But in the next moment, the excitement in its eyes vanished, replaced by shock and terror.
Li Xiaotian had unleashed a saber strike, and astonishing sword energy erupted from the saber. The giant serpent phantom summoned by the black dragon's broken horn had dissipated!
"This is impossible!!! This is not real!! How could the Ancestral Serpent's projection be gone just like that?!"
The black dragon's heart was filled with shock. That was the Ancestral Serpent's projection, the projection of a powerhouse infinitely close to invincibility. How could it have dispersed so easily?
"It's a divine artifact!!! It's that divine artifact!!! A sword!!!"
The black dragon quickly deduced the reason. Its heart was filled with both excitement and apprehension. Excitement because it had guessed correctly; this human indeed possessed a divine artifact, and it was a sword. If it could obtain that long sword, swallow it, and fuse it with its body, its power would definitely break through to the Heavenly level!
However, its apprehension, and even fear, was even greater. If the opponent were to use that divine artifact at any moment, it might perish!
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
The black dragon roared internally, its mind in chaos. On one hand, there was greed for the divine sword; on the other, there was the fear of perishing.
At this moment, the silver wolf was entangled by Zhen Wu, Jian Lin, and the others, unable to come to the black dragon's aid. The black dragon was already severely injured and had lost a horn, its strength no longer at its peak. It had no confidence in killing Li Xiaotian.
"Hum!"
In the brief moment of the black dragon's stunned daze, Li Xiaotian swung his saber again.
"I'll risk it all!"
A savage glint flashed in the black dragon's eyes. The other dragon horn on its head also snapped off and merged into its body. At this moment, its bodily injuries seemed to instantly recover, and its aura returned to its peak state.
"Roar!!! Die!!!"
The black dragon roared and charged forward. It had no choice but to risk it; not fighting meant perishing, but if it won, it would definitely break through to the Heavenly level!
"Boom!"
With a deafening sound, Li Xiaotian swung his saber directly at the black dragon's head, but it couldn't advance any further.
Immediately after, the black dragon's eyes changed, flashing with a strange red light as it looked at Li Xiaotian.