"Hiss!"
Huo Tao's face turned deathly pale. He sucked in a cold breath, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
Only now did he finally understand why the Clan-Protecting Array he and the twelve Supreme Elders had joined forces to lay down had failed to withstand even a single move before the other party...
This was a possessor of Nine Divine Veins, a one-in-a-hundred-million existence from legend who was certain to step into the Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign realm in the future!
And in the field, after the Fire Spirit Ancestor's shock passed, not only was there not the slightest fear in his eyes, but a blazing fighting spirit ignited instead!
He had lived for ten thousand years, and it was not as if he had never seen possessors of Nine Divine Veins. But every one of those figures had already stood at the peak of the Great Thousand World as Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereigns. Between Spirit Grade and Saint-grade lay the difference between heaven and earth, cloud and mud; there was simply no possibility of sparring with them.
Thus, he had only ever seen records in ancient texts of the heaven-defying battle strength of possessors of Nine Divine Veins, and had never had the chance to fight a Nine Divine Veins prodigy of the same realm head-on!
"Good! What fine Nine Divine Veins!" the Fire Spirit Ancestor laughed loudly, his voice shaking heaven and earth. The Divine Fire around him did not withdraw at all; instead, it grew even more scorching and violent. "Old man has lived for ten thousand years and has only heard of the supreme might of the Nine Divine Veins in ancient texts. Today, old man is fortunate enough to see it for himself. Perfect—let old man test just what kind of earth-shaking power this legendary top-tier