Market Projection Strikes Again

There were no surprises. The Violet Firmament Thunder Punishment and Soul-Annihilating Eye Beam struck the seventh-rank Nightmare Soul Body almost simultaneously.

Song Chi narrowed his eyes, focusing with all his might on the battle below.

His mind was taut. The moment he sensed anything wrong, he would activate Meditation Seal · Inner · Time Acceleration without hesitation and unleash a second Soul-Annihilating Eye Beam.

But his heart soon tightened.

As the Violet Firmament Thunder Punishment and Soul-Annihilating Eye Beam landed on the seventh-rank Nightmare Soul Body, a flash of golden light suddenly gleamed through the gray mist covering its surface. Ancient secret patterns then emerged around it, instantly forming a golden secret-pattern barrier over its body.

"A golden defensive marvel..."

Song Chi recognized the origin of the golden secret-pattern barrier at a glance. Though his expression remained calm, his heart sank.

High-grade lightning-attribute Law Crystals were exceedingly rare. Moreover, when he had killed that previous seventh-rank Nightmare Soul Body, he had also used an intermediate lightning-attribute Law Crystal. This time was no exception.

But the appearance of an unknown golden defensive marvel changed everything. Although a seventh-rank Overlord wielding a golden marvel could not fully unleash its power, the Ninefold Violet Firmament World-Ending Tribulation Lightning activated by an intermediate lightning-attribute Law Crystal was clearly no longer enough to swiftly kill it.

And that was indeed the case.

The Soul-Annihilating Eye Beam was naturally the first to exhaust its power. It erased only a tiny number of secret patterns from the golden barrier before completely dimming.

In comparison, the Violet Firmament lightning was clearly far more formidable.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

Successive Extreme-Yang Violet Firmament Tribulation Lightning bolts descended, each more powerful than the last. Every strike wore away roughly fifteen percent of the secret patterns on the golden barrier. After seven