At that moment, Huanyun's fury was beyond words. Ever since the battle began, he had gained no advantage whatsoever.
What left him even more speechless was that the energy aura radiating from his opponent was clearly weaker than his own, yet the properties of his attacks naturally restrained Huanyun's. The Soul Erosion Illusory Ice divine ability he had always regarded as his trump card had actually been forcibly interrupted by the opponent's attack before it could even be fully unleashed.
The Demonic Ice Bat had likewise failed to accomplish anything, as though it were utterly frail and vulnerable.
Based on Huanyun's common knowledge, he naturally knew that some Righteous Path cultivation techniques possessed a restraining effect against his divine abilities. However, that effect was generally not very great. Even if such restraint existed, it absolutely could not be powerful enough to erase the enormous gap between their cultivation realms.
Yet the young man had not only achieved that—he had even left Huanyun with the sensation that all his strength had nowhere to go.
He had originally thought that he could rely on his extremely swift and bizarre combat evasion technique, together with his powerful demonized body, to capture the young cultivator. What he had not expected was that the young cultivator had actually relied on his early Profound Spirit stage cultivation to hold him at bay with a movement technique.
Huanyun was certain that if they had been flying in a straight line, the young man might not even have escaped a hundred zhang before Huanyun caught up with him.
However, the young man's ability to change direction at high speed and move continuously was truly terrifying. Time and again, he managed to evade Huanyun's physical attacks.
Physical attacks placed extremely harsh demands on a cultivator's body. The cultivator had