"Hmph!"
Ding Wanyan let out a cold, alluring scoff. The Yin Sha Qi she had been building up for a long time surged violently, swirling around her like a whirlwind. Pure Yin Sha Qi condensed into razor-sharp Sha Blades that sliced through the air, shrieking as they slashed toward Li Yao. The Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger seemed to sense its master's anger and roared at the sky, its body swelling several more inches in an instant.
Roar! A ball of pure energy shot toward Li Yao with a piercing whistle, like a cannonball.
Li Yao merely held one hand behind his back and gave his folding fan a light wave. A translucent white, semicircular shield formed around him. The Sha Blades could not so much as make it tremble. Only when the Shadow Tiger's roaring blast struck did it shudder a few times. His expression faintly smug, he said, "Wan Yan, perhaps your strength is enough to fight an ordinary Golden Core High-tier cultivator. But the Nascent Soul Realm isn't as simple as you imagine. The gap between us is simply too—"
Boom!
He had not finished speaking when a violent explosion rang out. At some point, Ding Wanyan had condensed a fist-sized Yin Sha Heavenly Thunder. Concealed by the Sha Blades, it had silently struck his shield. How powerful was Yin Sha Heavenly Thunder? Even some Nascent Soul Realm cultivators could be injured if caught off guard.
The highly condensed Yin Sha Heavenly Thunder blasted cracks into Li Yao's shield. But that was not the end of it. Boom, boom, boom! Like a chain of thunderclaps, several gloomy flashes erupted in the blink of an eye, and the shield finally shattered with a crash. Baleful winds whipped Li Yao's clothes as dozens of Sha Blades closed in from every