Seeing the reactions of Black Fiend Daoist and the others.
There was no need to ask. The Golden Core cultivator who had now appeared here was undoubtedly the Netherworld Sect's Golden Core True Person.
This was bad!
Alarm bells suddenly rang in Ji Haoyuan and the others' hearts.
Especially after witnessing the move the other party had just displayed, Ji Haoyuan clearly understood that between Golden Core and Foundation Establishment lay an almost insurmountable gulf.
The difference between the two sides was like clouds and mud, something no treasures or techniques could bridge.
Whoosh—
At that very instant, black shadows stirred in the void.
Those shadows seemed alive, gradually gathering into the figure of a young man with black hair and black eyes, though his face appeared exceedingly sinister.
He was the Netherworld Sect's Golden Core cultivator, Nether Shadow True Person.
At that moment, his gaze turned directly toward Ji Haoyuan.
Boom!
In that instant, Ji Haoyuan felt as though he had been targeted by a primordial Fierce Beast.
The spiritual power that had always flowed freely through him now seemed frozen solid.
No matter how he tried to stir it, there was no response at all.
Crack, crack, crack—
Nether Shadow True Person did not appear to make the slightest movement, yet the sounds of bones being crushed already rang out from within Ji Haoyuan's body.
This was the first time Ji Haoyuan had faced such a perilous dead end since achieving Foundation Establishment.
It was as if he had returned to a century ago, before he had ever embarked upon cultivation.
Not to mention facing high-level cultivators like those at Foundation Establishment or Golden Core—even against a Qi Refining cultivator, he would have possessed no power to fight back.
Was this the might of Golden Core?
Even with