In the chaos, all was emptiness.
Violent chaotic currents roared past.
Three figures faced one another across the churning chaotic currents, Sage might spreading through the air.
Hongyun stood within the chaos, his red robes fluttering slightly in the chaotic flow.
He looked toward Jieyin and Zhunti opposite him.
"Fellow Daoists."
"Who goes first?"
Zhunti stepped forward, and with a light sweep of the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree in his hand, brushed aside the surging chaotic qi around him, then gave a cold snort.
"Fellow Daoist Hongyun, since you have such refined interest, I shall discuss the Dao with you."
In his view, Hongyun had only just attained the Dao, so his use of the power of the Sage realm was bound to be incomparably raw.
Relying on the tempering of Sage power he had accumulated over countless Kalpas, suppressing him would still be more than easy enough.
So long as he won this bout, he would seize the initiative and delay the matter of repaying karma for a while longer.
Jieyin said nothing, merely retreating a step in silence and leaving the battlefield to the two of them.
Hongyun looked at the brimming confidence on Zhunti's face and nodded slightly.
"Please."
The instant his words fell, Zhunti launched the offensive first.
His figure flickered, vanishing from where he stood in an instant and appearing right before Hongyun.
The Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree in his hand swept down at Hongyun without the slightest hesitation.
A beam of seven-colored divine light tore through the air, shooting straight for Hongyun's face.
This strike was swift as lightning, its Sage might vast and surging, enough to brush all things into oblivion.
Facing this thunderous blow, Hongyun remained unmoving as a mountain.
He merely raised his right hand slowly, spread his five fingers, and