But now...
He had actually been forced back again and again by an obscure Daoist of unknown origin!
His face had practically been rubbed across the Great Desolation Continent.
The moment the thought arose, suppressed fury surged straight to his head.
He truly had been plagued by misfortune lately—
He had barely entered the Netherworld Underworld under his teacher's orders when, for a verbal offense, Empress Pingxin had sent him flying with a single palm strike. He had tumbled into the Heaven Beyond Heaven and become the laughingstock of the Three Realms;
Before that uproar had even died down, he was now being publicly suppressed by an unknown Daoist, his Saintly dignity nearly ground to dust!
The prestige he had accumulated over countless years, the solemn authority he had painstakingly cultivated, would likely vanish in this battle!
His rage boiled over, impossible to suppress any longer.
His mana erupted, and the aura around him suddenly soared!
The immortal sword in his hand transformed into light inch by inch, silently disappearing;
The void rippled faintly, and a Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, warm and lustrous as jade with its radiance restrained, landed steadily in his hand.
"Buzz—!"
The instant the ruyi appeared, heaven and earth were tinged with auspicious signs—golden lotuses blossomed from nothingness, purple qi coiled through the nine heavens, and Saint's might surged like a vast tide.
"Go!"
Heavenly Lord Yuanshi gave a low shout and flicked his wrist. The ruyi shot through the air!
Its howl tore through the sky, whipping up a fierce gale of immense force as it bore down upon Li Tian's crown with the force to crush mountains and split peaks!
On the eve of the War of Investiture of the Gods, a single blow from this ruyi had scattered Qiongxiao's soul, sent her Primordial