It now seems that the one who built the Thousand Buddha Temple was not a sorcerer from Southeast Asia, but a monstrous monk of the Red Lotus Zen! However, Evil Zen excels at deception and confusing the mind. It's understandable that the local sorcerers couldn't distinguish this.
With this thought, Yan Yu hesitated no longer and executed the Sword-Human Unity move, splitting the Lotus Incense Burner in two.
Once the source of the fire was severed, the surrounding Karmic Fire indeed began to disperse gradually. Yan Yu formed a sword technique with his hands, and the Huang Tingjian sword shot out again, forcefully smashing open the tightly shut temple doors.
The moment the door broke, a golden streak shot out from inside. Luckily, Yan Yu's reflexes were extremely fast. He used the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step to leap up and barely avoided the sideways sweep of the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire below him in mid-air.
"Zhou Hongyu!" he shouted urgently, "It's me!"
