After some discussion, Xue Xianrong and the others set out together, leaving Star Peak Mountain for the site of the melee.
Not long after they departed, the rogue cultivator Shentu Ye suddenly opened his eyes. Picking up the flying sword at his side, he too vanished from sight.
Sky Fiend Cauldron!!!
Xue Zhu hoisted the Bronze Cauldron on his shoulder and descended from the sky like the Heaven-Piercing Buzhou Mountain crashing down.
Dragon Scripture, Rising Dragon!!!
Chen Sanshi neither dodged nor evaded. Amid the roaring, he concentrated every last shred of True Energy in his body into the Dragon Gallant Bright Silver Spear in his right hand. Crimson Sky Burning Fire surged higher and higher until a divine dragon leaped forth, unleashing a heaven-shaking Dragon's Roar as it collided head-on with the sky-shrouding Bronze Cauldron.
"Dong—"
A deep, heavy toll like a struck bell rippled outward.
In the pupils of the panicked birds, there was only a crimson divine dragon clashing midair with a towering mountain.
Under the mountain's suppression, the divine dragon initially curled up and let out pained cries. Yet as time passed, those cries gradually transformed into wrathful roars carrying magnificent majesty. The flames bursting forth grew ever more dazzling, until the originally pitch-black night sky was completely illuminated fiery red. The towering mountain was wholly swallowed, melting away like a snow mountain until it finally collapsed with a thunderous crash.
"Bang!!!"
Xue Zhu fell from high in the air with the Sky Fiend Cauldron on his shoulder, smashing a massive crater into the ground.
This exchange, he had actually come off slightly worse!
Every time they exchanged blows, Sky Burning Fire eroded his meridians once.
At first, it had been nothing much to Xue Zhu, a Golden Core Cultivator. But as their exchanges became increasingly frequent,