Boom!
The boundless black water ahead, together with the stretch of river where Li Qingyun stood, instantly exploded and was flattened into a vacuum.
Yet in the next instant, Li Qingyun's purple-robed figure appeared within that vacuum. He likewise thrust out a palm, meeting Tuoluo's strike across the air.
Terrifying immense force crashed down. Li Qingyun's robes and hair were snapped straight by the fierce wind.
Yet he stood firm without moving, forcibly receiving Tuoluo's distant blow!
Thud!
But the tremendous force traveled up his arm and into his body. Li Qingyun still heard a dull, indistinct muffled sound from the deathly silent empty heavens within his soul corpse.
The ferryman Tuoluo's immense force had shattered his outer defenses and penetrated directly into his body.
If Huang Pi or Black Core had taken that blow head-on, their divine bodies would probably have exploded from within at once, leaving them dead as doornails!
Yet Li Qingyun merely felt a slight numbness in his arm. His body was completely unharmed!
"The Ninth Realm of the Body Root Fruit truly is incomparably formidable, but the stature of this body before its death stood far above yours, Tuoluo..."
Li Qingyun sneered. His figure flashed, borrowing a little of the force to accelerate into the Ruin Eye vortex ahead.
Seeing Li Qingyun take a palm strike head-on without the slightest harm, the ferryman was greatly astonished. After hesitating briefly, he turned and pursued in another direction.
"Forget it! I'll catch you later. The Dao Seeking Bead is still on you anyway. I'll seize those other two first..."
His Giant Spirit God-like body shifted sideways.
The next moment, Fan Ye Daoist's shrill scream rang out amid the vast black waters.
His reactions lagged half a beat behind others of the same realm. Naturally, he had fled