I sucked in a cold breath. After the Sword Qi that had appeared out of nowhere cleaved him apart, it vanished on its own, as though it had never existed. The Mountain-Suppressing Immortal naturally dispersed into smoke and thin air, his soul-powder obliterated before it even had the chance to drift away.
"Ancestor Xinghai. Do you really think hiding in there means I can't find you?" I said darkly, then swept my gaze over the surrounding waters. One side was filled with lightning, the other with clear skies. Following the boundary between the two to its ends, I saw that the clear-sky sea within was surrounded for at least several hundred miles!
Ahead of the clear-sky waters stood an isolated island. There was a Daoist sect gate on it, and from afar, someone seemed to be flying this way, evidently having noticed that something was wrong.
I took out several paper effigies, recited a spell, and threw them forward. After two buzzing sounds, the paper figures were instantly cleaved to pieces by the lightning swords. I studied the form of those swords and realized they contained more than lightning. It seemed my lightning-avoidance technique would be of little use. Entering that area would very likely invite utter destruction.
A Nine-Yang cultivator with sevenfold Dao inheritance was far stronger than ordinary cultivators, and his defensive abilities were likewise at the pinnacle. But the reason humans could be distinguished from animals was that they excelled at making tools, while Profound Cultivators were even masters at crafting magical treasures. If I truly wanted to break the formation by force, I would at least need to be at a much higher level than this Nine Heavens Imperial-Thunder Divine Formation. As I was now, I might not be able to break it easily.
I began