Rumble!
Above the Vault Sky, rolling thunder surged. Boundless Phantom Colors spread out in formation, answering the heavenly stars above and joining with the Earth Veins below, reflecting a vast and boundless expanse of light and shadow.
Heaven Pillar Governing Mystery Grotto-Heaven!
Lu Yang did not underestimate his opponent. He directly unfurled his own Grotto-Heaven, stretching it across the heavens. He himself sat at its center, atop a Heaven-Filling Divine Mountain.
Faced with this scene, Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva did not hesitate in the slightest and charged straight into the Grotto-Heaven, with the Three Dukes of the Dao Court close behind. This was not recklessness, but a cautious choice Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva had made after seriously weighing the disparity between both sides.
For duels between True Lords, victory and defeat hinged solely on the Grotto-Heaven.
To a True Lord, damage to the Grotto-Heaven meant defeat; the collapse of the Grotto-Heaven meant death. All divine abilities and mystical arts rested upon the Grotto-Heaven.
Without question, the Grotto-Heaven was a True Lord's vital weakness.
Yet at the same time, the Grotto-Heaven was also a True Lord's strongest domain. It stood apart from the cosmos and formed its own order; from without to within, it was nearly unbreakable.
This could be seen from the duel between True Lord Flying Snow and True Lord Cheng Tian Zhengde in the past. One had been at the Golden Core Middle Stage and hailed as the First in Five Thousand Years of Combat, while the other had been among the weaker True Lords. Even so, True Lord Flying Snow had needed quite some time to shatter her opponent's Grotto-Heaven.
But the Grotto-Heaven itself was not without flaws.
Though it was extraordinarily difficult to destroy a Grotto-Heaven through external force, from within to without, it was far