Hong Jin's figure swayed, and in an instant he vanished into the void of the flag gate, his form dissolving without a trace. Reality and illusion became impossible to distinguish; he came and went without shape, hiding endless killing intent, intending to launch a sneak attack within the barrier and subdue his foe.
In the past, even Yang Jian, relying on the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and the Heaven-piercing power of his Heavenly Eye, had been trapped again and again, unable to break this evasion. That alone showed how wondrous and uncanny this side-door art of the Jie Sect truly was.
But today, the one he faced was the orthodox Heavenly Court Princess Longji.
As an orthodox immortal deity of Yaochi, Princess Longji bore the vast and righteous Immortal Power of the Nine Heavens and the laws of the Heavenly Court's righteous path. She was, by nature, the bane of all crooked arts, sinister tricks, and hidden evasions!
Her expression did not change. Her jade hand lifted lightly, drawing down the clear radiance of the Nine Heavens into her palm. Orthodox Immortal Light blazed in magnificent splendor, and ten thousand zhang of immortal brilliance thundered outward, directly enveloping the entire flag gate barrier!
When side-door illusions met orthodox Immortal Light, it was like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun. Layer after layer melted away in an instant, shattering and collapsing!
Those Mysterious Gate illusions that inverted direction and confused the five senses, those traces of evasive art that hid in the void and wandered between reality and illusion, had nowhere to hide beneath Princess Longji's immortal rhythm of the Heavenly Dao. One by one, they were forced to appear!
"Pfft—!"
Hidden deep within the flag gate, Hong Jin felt his own evasive art forcibly suppressed by righteous Immortal Power, his