A Ninth-grade Sacred Artifact contained power no less than that of a Sage. Though Bai Yang couldn't unleash its full might, he had used it like a one-use consumable, detonating it to unleash all its power in an instant. How could the hemp-robed young man possibly have escaped unscathed?
That nine-story black tower was something Bai Yang had obtained after killing Chu Tianya of the Great Light Dynasty. It was damaged, and Bai Yang hadn't had time to repair it. He didn't feel the slightest sting at tossing it away for fun this time. It would have just sat there otherwise, so why not use it to grievously wound an enemy?
Sages were called Sages because they mastered one or more laws of heaven and earth, aligning themselves with the world until their words became law. Now, the hemp-robed young man's grasp of the law had been destroyed when Bai Yang detonated a Ninth-grade Sacred Artifact, and his cultivation had fallen with it.
At that moment, the hemp-robed young man's grasp of the law was destroyed, and his cultivation had fallen to the same level as Bai Yang's.
Was Bai Yang afraid of ninth-tier experts in this world? One man was enough to beat a whole crowd of them senseless!
The Ninth-grade Merit Golden Lotus still hovering above the hemp-robed young man's head shuddered lightly and descended. By the time it reached him, it was only the size of a millstone, but with his cultivation fallen, he couldn't move under its suppression.
No, the hemp-robed young man was no longer young. As his cultivation fell, his body rapidly aged. In just a few seconds, he looked like an old man on the verge of death.
Bai Yang could tell that even if he didn't kill the man, his life had