Up on the porch of the flying courtyard, Gu Changsheng stood behind his seven-year-old daughter with a clean linen napkin ready in his hand. Ten thousand years of hoarded sect leyline energy, Gu Changsheng thought calmly. To the four Grand Ancestors it’s an apocalyptic spirit beam, but to Tuntun it’s just a slightly warm lemon slushie.
Inside the golden dome of Supreme Sword Mountain, panic instantly erupted into a desperate, frantic frenzy!
“Chop it! Sever that bamboo tube before she puts her mouth on it!”
Supreme Sword Sect Master Jian Jue , at Rank 5 Peak, roared with bulging veins across his forehead. Drawing his prized Rank 5 Dragon-Scale Broadsword and channeling every drop of his Peak Foundation Establishment sword-qi into the blade!
Beside him, Thunder-Clap Sect Master Lei Zhen , at Rank 5 Peak, condensed two crackling spears of purple-black thunder. Jade Lotus Sect Master Lian Hua , at Rank 5 Peak, whipped out her venomous silver-lotus ribbons!
CLANG—ZZZZZZT—SPARK!
All three Rank 5 Peak strikes slammed simultaneously against the candy-striped shaft of the [Giant Rainbow Spirit-Drinking Bamboo Straw] protruding inside the dome!
Blinding sparks flew thirty feet into the air—yet when the smoke cleared, the glossy strawberry-pink and lemon-yellow stripes of the hundred-foot emerald bamboo straw didn’t even have a single white scratch!
