Lin Tianyang's Power. In an instant, a bucket-thick bolt of purple lightning crashed down from the dark clouds, carrying the might to destroy heaven and earth as it struck straight for Li Xiao's head.
Wherever the lightning passed, the air sizzled as it was scorched. The blinding radiance turned everything within dozens of zhang deathly pale.
Li Xiao had long been prepared. With a thought, black Sword Qi soared into the sky like an ink-black rainbow, meeting the lightning head-on.
The instant Sword Qi and lightning collided, an ear-piercing boom erupted. The lightning was cleaved in two, transforming into two smaller currents that scattered in every direction, blasting shattered stones from the ground into the air.
Though the black Sword Qi severed the lightning, it also trembled violently, and the glow around its blade dimmed slightly.
Just as the Sword Qi blocked the lightning, Ao Li's figure vanished from where he stood.
The next instant, he appeared less than three zhang before Li Xiao. His dragon fist, covered in azure scales and wrapped in terrifying demonic power, smashed toward Li Xiao's front like a falling meteor.
The air compressed beneath the force of his punch, erupting in sharp crackles. The pressure was so immense that Li Xiao nearly felt suffocated.
Li Xiao had no time to dodge and fiercely circulated the Three Absolutes Returning Origin Qi.
True Qi surged wildly from within him in an instant, condensing into an enormous translucent sphere before him.
The sphere was formed from pure True Qi, layers upon layers of radiance flowing across its surface like an indestructible barrier.
Boom—
The dragon fist slammed into the sphere with a deafening crash. A shockwave exploded outward, hurling shattered rocks and dust several zhang into the air.
Spiderweb-like cracks appeared across the sphere's surface, yet it