Recalling the battle he had fought with the young man before him, Elder Li felt a chill run down his back.
At the very end, Elder Li had been desperately urging a secret technique of tremendous power. Just as he was about to complete the technique, he suddenly discovered that, from several dozen yards away, four attacks flashed out one after another—attacks so powerful that merely seeing them made his heart tremble with fear.
The four attacks were astonishingly fast. With a flicker, they had already closed to within thirty or forty yards of him.
Facing the four attacks hurtling toward him at terrifying speed, Elder Li's heart instantly filled with utmost terror. He knew that although the secret technique he was casting this time was powerful enough to threaten an Early Nascent Soul cultivator, he could not move even an inch while casting it.
Although he had already brought out his only defensive ancient treasure before casting the technique, he had no confidence at all that it could withstand the four dazzling rays of light flying toward him.
He was a decisive man. At this point, he had no time to think carefully. With a fierce sweep of both hands, he hurled out the black-radiance-wrapped energy sphere that was just about to complete its transformation. His body, meanwhile, rapidly retreated backward.
As an earth-shaking explosion rang out, Elder Li suddenly saw an incomparably dazzling radiance flare into existence. From within that brilliant light, a tremendous shockwave surged forth, its force nearly capable of destroying a small mountain.
The power of that shockwave was immense, as if it could make mountains collapse.
While retreating, Elder Li had no choice but to circulate all his magic power and pour it desperately into the defensive ancient treasure before him and his protective