Lightning flashed and thunder roared within the dueling altar, with no sign of the blinding light and explosive booms letting up.
Below, Tiger Power and Deer Power resisted the glare while keeping their eyes fixed on the two figures inside the altar.
At that moment, the two immortals had the illusion that, compared to the challenger, Cheng Tian seemed more like a higher being conducting a comprehensive appraisal of Sheep Power. Their positions appeared to have been completely reversed.
At the same time, Sheep Power was taking this duel more seriously than any before. He had even partially revealed his true form: a sheep-headed humanoid body.
Strictly speaking, the Three Immortals could not unleash their full strength while maintaining human forms. Only when they revealed their hybrid beast-and-human bodies were they at their strongest.
Incidentally, this was not the first time he had displayed this form, so neither Chechi Kingdom's upper ranks nor its citizens were overly shocked.
Sheep Power's appearance alone showed how serious he was.
Moreover, the battle between them had clearly ceased to be a mere exchange of spells. Close-quarters combat had entered the fray.
And that was what astonished Tiger Power and Deer Power most.
Sheep Power had the weakest melee ability among the Three Immortals, but with his beast body and his most advanced cultivation of the Five Thunders Technique, he was not someone ordinary cultivators could easily contend with.
Yet even so, Sheep Power could not so much as brush the corner of Cheng Tian's clothes.
Most bizarrely, Cheng Tian was not relying on greater strength or speed, but on the bodily instincts forged through countless battles. He used the smallest possible movements to evade the deadliest attacks.
Sheep Power, whose eyes had been consumed by battle until nothing else existed, had yet to