A flicker of surprise crossed Lu Xiaotian's eyes. Once one reached the Celestial Immortal realm and gradually grasped the mysteries of the Cave-Heaven Dao Domain, the space around them transformed into a cave-heaven, and their own intent merged into it. All outside power would be repelled from that cave-heaven.
Even someone who routinely cultivated the laws of space would find it no easy task to break through a cave-heaven that a Celestial Immortal had fully deployed in defense.
Hiss, hiss, hiss. The spatial cracks slashed against the cage the gaunt man had trapped himself in. Light shimmered, but there was not the slightest hint of joy on his face at having blocked the enemy's attack. Though he had kept most of the danger outside his intent-cave-heaven, he knew full well that he had become a trapped beast. Even as they fought, he could sense wisps of spatial power seeping into his intent-cave-heaven.
At this rate, his defenses would likely be breached before long. Faced with spatial power that seemed to slip through every crack, fear welled up in the gaunt man. Was his opponent really Ying Feng of the South Sea Dragon Palace? The South Sea Dragon Palace, from the Dragon King on down, had always been under the control of the Yu Xuan Heavenly Court. When had it acquired such formidable divine arts and laws?
On the other side, fiery red lotuses bloomed one after another in the void, forming a sea of fire lotuses all around in an instant. The middle-aged man's body was wrapped in the petals of one of them. When a thread of force, flicked out by Lu Xiaotian's finger, pierced the lotus, it exploded. Yet apart from a sky full of scattered flames, not a trace of the man could be seen.
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