"Mingzhu!!—Mingzhu!!"
The Ancestor's call, seeming to come from beyond endless time and space, repeatedly struck Wan Mingzhu's heart, washing away the fear and despair in her will and helping her regain her confidence.
It was not that Wan Mingzhu was too weak. It could only be said that Jiang Dali was simply too powerful.
The former was merely an ordinary True Return Realm 9th Level expert, while the latter was a man who had survived repeated clashes with the Will of Heaven and Earth and even fought Qin Shi Huang, the eternal runner-up—a peerless brute who had emerged from the Heavenly Abyss, a man... from hell!
Compared to the battle-hardened Jiang Dali, no matter how strong Wan Mingzhu's will was, she was no match for him. It was mercilessly suppressed and ravaged, like a ship in a storm, swaying on the verge of sinking beneath an unbearable burden.
Just as she was nearing her limit, a vast force of destiny surged up from the bottom of the pond, causing the water throughout the pond to merge without distinction, like a massive, heavy curtain falling over Wan Mingzhu.
Boom!—!
Jiang Dali threw another heavy punch, carrying over sixty tons of impact like a cannonball, striking the water curtain at the speed of sound. It produced a dull roar like iron being struck inside a wad of cotton, while the savage fist force scattered the water blasted apart by the impact.
Yet the scattered water unexpectedly hung and solidified in midair like viscous slime, forming a huge semicircular fluid passage. It suddenly contracted, like countless powerful tentacles instantly encircling and twisting down around him.
Jiang Dali frowned as he sensed something was wrong and was about to dodge, but his feet had already sunk into a rapidly spinning water vortex, abruptly halting