"Huh??" The Black Armored Man found it unbelievable. "Even if you're a knockoff Mind Domain, you're saying you can't clear a Third Heavenly Layer's Second Heavenly Layer? Are you scared, trying to back out, and deliberately claiming you can't do it?"
The person inside the helmet's inner compartment immediately cried injustice. "It's not that I'm not trying! His mind qi is strange—its intensity is absurdly high. Every rune looks like it's been plated with crystal diamonds. If you don't believe me, look!"
As he spoke, he used his Mind Domain to touch several runes. When the Mind Domain collided with the runes, it actually produced the clang of metal striking metal. Clearly, both sides were extraordinarily sturdy.
The person in the compartment kept exerting force. The Mind Domain hummed and trembled, gathering tremendous power like a massive hammer smashing down again and again. Dark Abyss's mind qi had only crystallized into a thin outer layer; like filled chocolate, it was hard outside but soft within, unable to withstand sustained force.
Under the Mind Domain's powerful impacts, the runes gradually dented and deformed, their forms mutating. Even after repeatedly adapting and reorganizing, they inevitably lost their function amid flickering radiance.
This showed that, overall, Dark Abyss's mind qi was roughly on par with the Mind Domain. One was half-cooked, the other evenly tempered; there was not much difference between them.
The person in the compartment looked pitifully aggrieved. "You saw it too. I can clear them, but the speed of clearing them is just..."
"Don't worry about the speed. Clear as many as you ca—" Before the Black Armored Man could finish, an energy disturbance flashed past with a whoosh. A Battle Qi flew by from nearby with a miserable scream, and in that fleeting glimpse, his arms and legs could