Cao Qi's words had come straight from the heart.
At first, he had looked down on Xu Yi. Later, he had regarded him as an equal, then gradually come to look up to him. Now, he felt that even craning his neck to see him was a struggle.
It was because he had witnessed Xu Yi's growth with his own eyes, and seen the twists and turns of his life, that he had no choice but to be careful to the utmost.
Spirit-nurtured Tang Shanhai scoffed. "Enough, enough. You want this old man to pretend he's slain a true dragon when all he's done is crush an ant. What a joke..."
Before he could finish, a sharp crack rang out. The ice sculpture shattered, and a silvery glow spilled forth, transforming into a round disc barely an inch across. Its radiance swept over the formations woven by the experts Cao Qi had summoned, and they dissolved in an instant.
"This isn't a True Intent Supernatural Ability! It's too powerful!"
Cao Qi cried out in shock.
Tang Shanhai's expression changed, too. He stared blankly at Xu Yi, forgetting to attack.
The silvery glow seemed to belong to an entirely different system of power, utterly incompatible with the spiritual energy unleashed by Cao Qi and the other Tribulation Transcending Experts.
Whether attacking or defending, so long as Cao Qi and the others relied on spiritual power, they could neither attack nor defend against that silvery glow.
In almost an instant, all the experts perished beneath its light. Xu Yi wrapped Cao Qi's Divine Infant in the glow and sent it into a Soul Collecting Bottle. He paid no mind to the Soul-Summoning Banner's malfunction and tossed it out as usual.
Sure enough, the Soul-Summoning Banner reacted—and so violently that Xu Yi was