The Black Dragon Venerable sat within the great black sedan chair, his ten fingers interlocked into a strange hand seal.
Behind the beaded curtain, Ming Ruo sat utterly still, seemingly lost in thought. Only her long, beautiful lashes trembled faintly from time to time.
No intense magical power fluctuations emanated from the Black Dragon Venerable's body, yet two blazing lights shone in his eyes, like two fiercely burning flames.
But at the instant Luo Bei unleashed the Empty Clarity Lotus, the Black Dragon Venerable's gaze flickered, while the firelight in his eyes abruptly dimmed. Even his formerly raised head lowered slightly.
At the moment Luo Bei and Rong Xuan clashed, the Black Dragon Venerable and Ming Ruo had also waged an invisible battle.
The cultivation art practiced by the Black Dragon Venerable allowed him to unleash invisible yet formidable power without producing the slightest magical power fluctuation. Given his immense cultivation, this art could make an opponent lose the initiative without noticing anything at all, or simply be strangled outright. Some of the arts within Ming Ruo's Jing Nian Tong Ming Jue were also greatly similar to those cultivated by the Black Dragon Venerable.
By relying solely on her mind, Ming Ruo could likewise release immense, unnoticed power in the unseen. Moreover, when it came to sensing auras and true essence, Ming Ruo's Jing Nian Tong Ming Jue surpassed the cultivation art of the Poison Dragon Venerable. Yet the Poison Dragon Venerable had never expected Ming Ruo not to notice his covert attack. He merely wished to test whether he could defeat the mistress of Cihang Zhai—the woman who clearly knew of his arrival, yet still appeared able to control everything.
Luo Bei took another step forward.
With only that single additional step, under the crushing force of invisible