Minghe saw the shadow of the spear cleaving toward him and flew into a rage. He shouted harshly, "Beast! How dare you offend your superior!" His robe sleeves shook violently, sending dozens of blood blades howling forth. The blades crossed like a net, viciously slashing at the dragons' vital points.
Kong Xuan merely sneered and raised his hand, hurling a dense rain of Five Elements thunderballs across the sky. He called out, "Courtesy demands reciprocity. I'll return the favor, fellow Daoist!" Before his voice had even faded, thunderous explosions erupted one after another, shaking the heavens.
The Five Elements were metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. In mutual restraint, metal cleaved wood, wood pierced earth, earth covered water, water doused fire, and fire melted metal. In mutual generation, metal condensed water, water nourished wood, wood fueled fire, fire refined earth, and earth carried metal.
These divine Five Elements thunderbolts operated according to this principle. Though they could not compare with the World-Destroying power of the Sea of Blood Divine Thunder, which detonated the entire Blood Sea, their might was still not to be underestimated.
The power of mutual generation and restraint was domineering to begin with. Caught off guard, Minghe suffered in silence on the spot. His figure staggered, leaving him in a sorry state.
His Daoist coiffure had come undone, and several spots on his scarlet robe had split open, scorched black. Even the edges of his sleeves had curled from the flames. The dignified Ancestor of the Blood Sea had actually lost face beneath Kong Xuan's Lightning Technique, and fury nearly sprayed from his eyes.
The Blood Sea churned, and enormous waves surged into the sky. Three-thousand-zhang blood blossoms exploded with a thunderous roar. In an instant, countless Blood Shadows surfaced across the sea. Their faces, figures, and