"What a joke!" Ye Xiu simply refused to accept that he would be defeated by the Ghost Doll. He swung his saber again, conjuring an endless vortex intended to blow the fused Ghost Doll away. However, this combined entity was ten times stronger and faster than the individuals had been. Before the "Wind Sweeps the Clouds" attack could fully materialize, they had already teleported in front of Ye Xiu and struck out with a palm. With a resounding clang, even though Ye Xiu fiercely blocked with his saber, he was inevitably driven back several steps.

"How many times must I tell you, the Ghost Doll is invincible!" Laughing Asura seized the opportunity presented by Ye Xiu's opening, flew behind him, and delivered a palm strike. Ye Xiu retaliated with Black Flame, instantly shattering Laughing Asura's hand. He thought this fellow's true body was nothing special, but unexpectedly, Laughing Asura's arm regenerated in an instant, and he was struck again, slammed against the wall. The power of this single blow was immense, sending him crashing heavily into the structure, blood streaming down his body.

"Hah... could it be that your body is also..." Ye Xiu spat out a mouthful of blood, finally realizing what a terrifying opponent he was facing.

"Apologies, I forgot to mention." Laughing Asura pointed to his head. "Every part of this body, except for this head, is the same as the Ghost Doll's—it cannot be destroyed."

"It seems your strength isn't all that impressive either?" At this critical juncture, Old Liu could no longer stand by. He lunged forward and helped support Ye Xiu. "How can you not even defeat this little shorty? I was looking forward to a proper spar with you."

"You should have stepped up sooner." Ye Xiu complained, yet he keenly felt the overwhelming power of the fused Ghost Doll. He cautioned, "Be careful, that Ghost Doll is unkillable, and so is that fellow's body."

"No problem, I see things clearly enough." Old Liu shook his arm and stretched his legs, seemingly unfazed by Laughing Asura and the Ghost Doll.

"Heh, another one coming to die." Laughing Asura hadn't noticed the shift in Old Liu's strength at all. He waved a finger and commanded, "Ghost Doll, finish him. Don't hold back."

"Hmph!" Old Liu plunged into the fight, moving completely differently from before. He wielded the Demon-Slaying Sword and moved at blinding speed, while the Thin-Faced Saber flew into the air autonomously, observing the timing, ready to join the fray at any moment.

A few swish-swish-swish-swish sounds later, the towering, fused Ghost Doll was reduced to mere scraps by the sweeping Demon-Slaying Sword. Even Laughing Asura abruptly dropped his persistent grin and leaped out of the sword's effective range.

"You're that powerful? Did you secretly deploy a High-Grade Black Talisman?" Ye Xiu knew Old Liu's combat patterns. While powerful, his strength lay in his calm thought process and assessment of the situation. Moving like a madman only meant he wanted a swift conclusion.

"Firelight Beast!" Old Liu exclaimed, leaping into the air. The dancing sword shadows instantly flowed towards the Firelight Beast. At that moment, the fused Ghost Doll managed to stand up and try to move, but it was sliced apart by the sword shadows, then incinerated to ash and powder again by the Firelight Beast's raging flames.

"Ah! Yah!" Laughing Asura suddenly felt a surge of immense magical energy and instinctively retreated again, only to find his feet already ensnared by tough threads. He tried to leap away to escape, only to realize his legs were instantly bound by the strands. "How is this possible? When were these things laid down?"

"Heh, so I was meant to be bait?" Ye Xiu sneered, catching sight of the scheme. It turned out that while he was entangled with the Ghost Doll, Old Liu had already planned out the battle. Laughing Asura’s underestimation had led to this dire situation.

"Try the perfect combination of the Seven Demon-Slaying Swords and the Thin-Faced Saber!" Sure enough, as Old Liu roared this command, he formed a sword array before his chest. Boundless vapor instantly rose across the entire field of vision. This vapor coalesced into razor-sharp blades that tore the Ghost Doll—now completing its third fusion—into pieces again. Even Laughing Asura, standing nearby, was swept aside, leaving only a grotesque head. Instantly, the surrounding air was drawn towards Old Liu by the sword array, and even Ye Xiu, standing far behind, was affected.

"He's aiming for a dual ice-fire strike?" Ye Xiu knew what Old Liu intended next. This area instantly became a world of water and fire. Old Liu planned to use high-speed water vapor flow to continuously sever the bodies of the Ghost Doll and Laughing Asura, then use the subsequent fire to utterly annihilate them.

"Yah, Ghost Doll, come out!" Laughing Asura seemed to have foreseen the ultimate power of Old Liu's move. He roared fiercely, shaking the entire room violently. Ye Xiu heard a rustling sound moving within the walls. When he pressed his ear against the nearest wall, a hand suddenly burst through, followed quickly by another, and then a ghostly doll head appeared.

"How is this possible?" Ye Xiu looked up around the area. By now, the entire space was almost filled with Laughing Asura's Ghost Dolls. Incomplete limbs of various sorts were emerging from the surrounding walls, all with one goal: to snatch the suspended Old Liu.

"Hey, why hasn't your move finished them off yet!" Ye Xiu shouted out loud, but he was pinned to the ground by the Ghost Dolls surrounding him. Furthermore, new Ghost Dolls were constantly surging up from the floor, leaving him with no place to stand.

"Hahahaha, hahahaha! Taste the taste of the Ghost Doll Graveyard!" Laughing Asura threw his mouth open, revealing his repulsive teeth. "I told you, you lost this battle from the very beginning."

Whoosh! Ye Xiu, unsure of what else to do, could only use his Radiant Saber and Black Flame to continuously slay the incoming Dolls. On Old Liu's side, the accumulating water vapor constantly battered the swarming Dolls, but these things simply refused to die; they were merely being destroyed and immediately reforming.

With a boom, the shattered limbs of the Dolls violently reassembled into a long, slender spectral hand that shot skyward, seizing Old Liu's foot tightly. Immediately after, another hand burst from the wall, lunging with a sword strike aimed at piercing him.

Old Liu panicked slightly, recalling that while his Qijing Dao was potent, it was severely restricted by time. Helplessly, he could only lean back slightly, holding the Demon-Slaying Sword across his chest. In the mere instant he maintained this guard, time and light flickered, shattering that first arm into dust. Seeing the situation ease slightly, he flew back down, intending to slice off the other grasping hand. Time was short; he hadn't expected that the moment he let go of his sword, the first arm he had destroyed would burst through the wall again, sword raised. In an instant, it was obliterated by the blade edge again. This created a relentless cycle, but the closer he brought his sword in for a strike, the faster the hands would close in, making any defense impossible.