"Damn it, was he going to beat me to it?"
Seeing Li Daoyi ascend the Blood Immortal Altar, Meng Hao's pupils contracted. He immediately leaped into the air and charged toward the altar.
"Stop them! Only if this old man merges with the Blood Immortal Mask and becomes its artifact spirit will you obtain the inheritance."
The blood dragon roared at Li Daoyi. Bloodlight surged across the sky as its enormous crimson body transformed into a streak of bloodlight and shot toward the Blood Immortal Mask.
"Roar..."
At the same moment the blood dragon rushed toward the Blood Immortal Mask, Meng Hao's Blood Mastiff likewise turned into a streak of light and charged at the mask.
Li Daoyi tried to stop it, but he simply could not block the Blood Mastiff after it had become bloodlight. It was like an intangible, formless ray of bloodlight—impossible to break or block.
"Boom!"
Almost simultaneously, the two streaks of bloodlight crashed into the Blood Immortal Mask, erupting with an earth-shaking blast.
The Blood Immortal figure seated upon the stone chair silently dissipated amid that tremendous explosion. Only a mask blazing with bloodlight remained, floating in midair.
"You dare compete with me? You're courting death!"
Failing to stop the Blood Mastiff filled Li Daoyi with fury. He glared viciously at Meng Hao, then swept out a hand. Golden light flared, and an immense tide of golden flames surged forth.
"I'm at Paragon Foundation Establishment, while you're only at early Foundation Establishment. More importantly, that blood dragon was transformed from my family's ancestor. Your dog has no fate but to be devoured completely by the ancestor. What gives you the right to fight me?"
As he scattered golden flames, Li Daoyi stood like a deity amid the golden radiance, majestic and arrogant beyond compare.
"What