"Hmph, I'm afraid what you want is me myself."
The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill's mocking, taunting voice slowly echoed over the plaza.
Hearing this, Lin Ming raised an eyebrow slightly but did not refute him. The strange smile on his lips merely deepened.
"What's the point of talking to a pill? Capture him first!"
Before Lin Ming could speak, Gu Yuan's expression swiftly turned grim. Breaking from his usual manner, he spoke before Lin Ming in a cold voice.
Before his words had even faded, Gu Yuan's figure shot forward.
In an instant, Gu Yuan's immense Late Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint Dou Qi surged wildly from his body like a burst dam, flooding the heavens and dyeing half the sky above the plaza in dazzling gold.
As his Dou Qi churned, it formed an energy tide thousands of zhang high. Carrying the force to destroy heaven and earth like a tsunami, it crashed fiercely toward the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill atop the stone statue's shoulder.
With this palm, Gu Yuan had already used the Ancient Clan's inherited Heaven Tier Dou Technique. Its power was enough to effortlessly erase an entire mountain range from the earth.
Everyone present was shaken by the sight.
Gu Yuan intended to end this quickly, leaving the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill no chance to catch its breath.
Yet, faced with such a terrifying attack capable of destroying heaven and earth, the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill merely let out a cold laugh filled with disdain and contempt.
Then, he slowly raised his right hand and gently pointed with his index finger.
Yet this seemingly casual finger strike made everyone present's pupils suddenly contract.
The towering energy tide rushing toward him abruptly stopped when it was still three feet from his fingertip, as though it had struck an