Delaying

Upon the battlefield.

Because of the foundations of his Earthly Deity lineage, Li Qi was forced by Qiu Zhi's flames to dodge, though such flames were meaningless on the Outer Domain Battlefield...

They were simply too slow. Spreading only a few hundred li per second, they would not hit anyone until the next life on the Outer Domain Battlefield, and they were not nearly so effective against anyone besides Shamans of the Earthly Deity lineage.

It could be said that these gray flames were a tactic developed specifically for this battlefield, specifically to target Li Qi. They would not work once taken outside. This was the Human Path's deliberate targeting.

But none of that mattered. As long as it worked now, that was enough.

Then look to the other side.

The Inner Gods, tens of thousands of li tall, were practically as large as some planets beyond the domain. Carrying a cylindrical continent forty-five hundred li across and ten thousand li deep upon their shoulders, they looked like deities bearing up the heavens.

Yet before the destructive power of the fourth rank, they were actually incomparably fragile. With a single strike of the long ge in his hand, Qiu Zhi sent that deity staggering and falling, dropping to its knees.

But Qiu Zhi was greatly astonished.

What was going on?

His attack should have possessed far more force than this. Though they had gathered their power and kept their attacks from affecting too broad an area, this "not too broad" area still had a destructive radius of tens of thousands of li, and the energy was incredibly concentrated.

Under normal circumstances, the range of a fourth-rank battle was measured in light-years. Yet now, without holding back, their destructive range had been compressed to such an extent. One could imagine how