These were nothing like the cannon-fodder Gray Mist Fish from before, the rank-and-file soldiers Ling Wuyuan could create by the countless thousands with a single thought.
Now he faced high-level Deep Shadow Demon Fish whose combat strength rivaled the Heart Domain Realm.
The Gray Mist Fish Ling Wuyuan had deliberately split off were, without a doubt, advanced units—or perhaps... elite monsters.
Each carried roughly a few hundredths of one percent of his True Essence.
That might sound like a mere fraction of his True Essence, but it was no less than all the True Essence in an ordinary Heart Domain Realm cultivator's body combined. In all likelihood, it was more.
When all was said and done,
Ling Wuyuan really was that powerful now.
Perhaps not compared with the Void Glimpse Realm.
But at the very least, for someone who had only recently advanced, both the quality and quantity of the True Essence in his body were unquestionably beyond the norm for the Heart Domain Realm.
Only a peer with an especially unusual Innate Divine Ability might rival him in some respect... and even then, only in that one respect.
Meanwhile,
the Deep Shadow Demon Fish had begun using their various Special Abilities.
Ling Wuyuan had been deliberately fighting a war of attrition against the Deep Shadow Fish Tide. Naturally, he no longer held back his other abilities and began answering them in kind.
At that moment,
the sea of mist showed no visible movement.
The waters occupied by the sea of mist served as the formation's base,
and the countless wisps of Gray Mist filling it served as its medium.
An extraordinary formation barrier took shape in an instant!!
The already chaotic structure of space and time within the entire sea of mist grew even more chaotic!!
The boundaries between