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A silvery-white pillar of lightning stabbed viciously down from the thunderclouds!

Like a twisted, grotesque silver sword of thorns, it was incredibly thick and utterly ferocious, looking as though it intended to skewer Sauron straight through!

Sauron immediately took offense. "I hate it most when people stab me like that!"

And from above, no less! So—

It suddenly raised a hand! Within the Dark Flame Domain, black flames abruptly surged into the sky like an erupting oil well! A blazing, magnificent pillar of black fire rose against the heavens like a wicked dragon, crashing violently into the vat-thick silver lightning! For a moment,

Silver-white and pitch-black collided with the sea and sky as their foundation, strangling each other.

It was like a contest between light and darkness, and even more so, a collision between thunder and fire!

The Red Sea beneath Sauron boiled from the impact, while even the thunderclouds overhead shook and churned without end.

The standoff lasted several seconds. The black flames and silver lightning gradually weakened, but just as Li Yao thought it was over, the lightning in the sky suddenly struck again! Thunderclouds stretching for dozens of miles rumbled as they unleashed a vast expanse of lightning, as though a huge forest of silver thorns had suddenly grown above the sea! But Sauron was even fiercer! The Dark Flame Barrier abruptly expanded, then reached toward the heavens like a demonic claw, directly gathering the thunderclouds into its palm before suddenly closing!

"Boom!"

Like bronze gates slamming shut, the enormous roar echoed in every direction.

Black flames surged beneath Sauron's Emperor's Carriage, carrying it ever higher. At last, Sauron rose above the thunderclouds and let out a sinister cackle. "Oh, baby! That's more like it! Does it feel good down there?!"

Li Yao: "..."

He seriously suspected