The deafening sound rang through the clouds, echoing in everyone's ears.
Unable to bear it, many instinctively covered their ears, pain written across their faces.
Whoosh!!
Then, beneath their horrified gazes, a figure was sent flying.
The figure traced a graceful arc through the air before crashing heavily to the ground.
Bang!
Dust billowed everywhere. After rolling several times, the figure finally steadied himself.
Silence!
After a brief stillness fell over the surroundings, an anxious cry suddenly rang out.
"Jishi!"
Su Qi moved swiftly and appeared before Qin Jishi.
"Cough, cough!"
Qin Jishi coughed lightly. Seeing Su Qi reach out, he raised a hand and waved it.
"I'm fine!"
"Cough, cough!"
As he spoke, he rose from the ground.
"Pah!"
He spat out a mouthful of bloody foam. "I originally thought Miao Cheng had forcibly piled up his strength using Killing Intent and was nothing to fear. Now it seems I underestimated him."
During that earlier strike, the God-Slaying Golden Light barrier Qin Jishi had cast had not even lasted three breaths. This showed that Miao Cheng truly had some foundation.
Generally speaking, cultivation forcibly raised through external means could never unleash its full power.
Yet what about Miao Cheng?
He had broken that rule. Perhaps he had not achieved a perfect one hundred percent fusion.
But at the very least!
At the very least, he had attained seventy or eighty percent fusion.
Honestly!
That alone was enough to show that Miao Cheng possessed a deep foundation.
What a pity!
He had chosen to use external power to prematurely drain his potential, turning the infinite into the finite. His achievements in this life would likely end here.
Qin Jishi could imagine that if Miao Cheng had been able to temper his nature and endure, his future accomplishments would have been