The Sacred Venerable and the hat-wearing man stood side by side.
One was a Half-Saint.
The other was at the Great Perfection of Divine Mansion.
The two peak auras combined, pressing this stretch of starry sky until it groaned beneath the unbearable weight.
The Princess Royal stood opposite them.
Her white robes fluttered in the wind.
The snow-white Heavenly Weapon longsword in her hand flowed with a layer of icy blue frost.
She glanced at the two of them.
Her tone was indifferent.
"Come at me together."
Four lightly spoken words.
Yet when they fell into the ears of the hat-wearing man and the Sacred Venerable,
they were more piercing than any provocation.
This was contempt that came from the very bone.
The hat-wearing man snorted coldly and struck first.
The phantom of a Purple-Gold Giant Dragon raised its head and roared toward the heavens.
Then it transformed into countless purple-gold motes of light, all of which merged into the hat-wearing man's body.
The hat-wearing man's aura immediately surged.
He took one step forward, his entire body turning into a purple-gold meteor.
Wrapped in incomparably powerful and tyrannical Physical Body Realm strength,
he slammed viciously toward the Princess Royal.
The Sacred Venerable was unwilling to be outdone as well.
He raised the Pure World Lotus Staff above his head.
Its radiance immediately flared.
A twelve-petaled white lotus bloomed at the tip of the staff.
The white lotus spun.
Its holy white light instantly illuminated a vast expanse of starry sky.
The radiance was not dazzling.
Yet it carried a vast will that seemed capable of cleansing all living beings.
Within the starry sky,
countless lotus platforms appeared out of thin air.
Upon every lotus platform sat a blurry figure in meditation.
This was the path the Sacred Venerable had cultivated