Heavenly Sword True Lord's expression was solemn. Rather than retreat, he advanced, his sword dancing like the wind as countless sword blossoms bloomed across the sky. Layer upon layer of sword nets locked down the ferocious beast's attacks. Man and wolf clashed at blinding speed high above, sword qi and black mist colliding and exploding without cease. Booms thundered relentlessly, and the battle was perilous beyond measure.
In another stretch of sky, Dao resonance rose and fell amid flowing white light. The battle there was every bit as dangerous.
Void Elder had white hair and an aged face, his Daoist robes fluttering around him. His Daoist cultivation was pure and serene, his foundations profound. Yet everyone knew that during the great Heavenly Dao war of old, he had taken a Demon Resistance supreme's killing blow head-on with his own flesh to protect his sect and shelter his fellow cultivators. His Dao foundation had suffered irreversible damage, and his cultivation had been forced down a minor realm, falling from the pinnacle of peak true god to the early stage. Of his heaven-reaching abilities, fewer than three-tenths remained.
He now faced a World-Devouring Beast Commander in the form of a colossal bear a hundred zhang tall. The bear's body was massive and heavy, its muscles knotted and its strength overwhelming. Pitch-black scales as hard as divine metal covered its body, and a dense field of void gravity surrounded it. Every movement made space shudder and the earth collapse. It was a supreme ferocious beast renowned for its physical strength.
The giant bear's eyes were scarlet and bloodthirsty as it looked down upon Void Elder, filled with a lesser ferocious beast's savage contempt for a high-level cultivator. Neither dodging nor retreating, it raised a pitch-black palm that blotted out the heavens and the