"What?"
"How was that possible?"
Azure Heaven Ancestor stared at the Barrier before him, as smooth and unblemished as ever, like the surface of an ancient well untouched by ripples. As if struck by lightning, he froze where he stood.
He knew the people of Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley had been making a fool of him on purpose.
But he had never imagined they would make such a thorough fool of him.
The Ninefold Azure Heaven World-Destroying Thunder, with which he had struck fear into the entire Eastern Domain, could not even leave a mark on the Barrier of a mere Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation.
"Damn it..."
Azure Heaven Ancestor was furious. In all his long life, no one had ever toyed with him like this.
It was the greatest humiliation of his life.
He no longer cared about anything else. Without a second thought, he unleashed the Ninefold Azure Heaven World-Destroying Thunder again.
At the same time, he roared for every Dao Sage in the Southern Border Alliance and Eastern Domain Alliance to join forces and break through Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley's Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation with a relentless assault.
Meanwhile,
far away, where the Southern Border met the Western Wastes,
the members of the Setting Sun Divine Palace, who had been watching from the shadows for some time, were stunned by the startling turn of events.
Every last one of them fell silent.
Ancestor Yan Tian's brows drew tightly together.
He kept muttering under his breath.
"Impossible!"
"This can't be possible."
"Even that old bastard Azure Heaven Ancestor's Ninefold Azure Heaven World-Destroying Thunder can't blast through it. Just how powerful is Bright Moon Spirit Tide Valley's Crescent Moon Return to Ruins Array?"
"And stranger still, where does that ability to repair itself in an instant come from?"
"None