The greenwood that pierced into the Nine Abysses brimmed with vitality, its form wavering between real and illusory. It had attained the wondrous realm of emptiness and existence, and possessed the virtue of Daoism Nature. In a mere instant, everything along its path sprouted to life, Demonic Qi faded, and filth was cleansed. The place no longer resembled the Nine Abysses, but rather an immortal realm or Buddhist land. It occupied most of the possibilities of the future, making Han Guang abruptly feel that there was nowhere to flee and that his fate was sealed. The Five Elements within him fell out of balance, his inner landscape descended into chaos, his vitality ebbed away, and his longevity was extinguished. He was as weak as an ant.
That was the terror of facing an Other Shore Great Figure directly. Had he not spent years in the Nine Abysses, with his past traces concealed by an equally mighty figure, the Azure Emperor would have long since retraced the River of Time in the Real Realm and erased him before he fled into the Nine Abysses, leaving Nine Chaos Heavenly Venerable, Black Heavenly Emperor, and the other Pseudo-Other Shore Beings helpless, without even a chance to face him!
Only an Other Shore Being could stand against an Other Shore Being.
Even so, when the illusory Dao Fruit condensed by the Azure Emperor displayed its corresponding might, Han Guang still could not resist it!
Fortunately, this was the Nine Abysses.
"Do you really think the Nine Abysses are unguarded?" Ghost Emperor Xuanming roared. A huge, dark-green ghost claw reached out from one of the layers of the Nine Abysses. Icy cold spread, Death Qi surged, vitality was extinguished, and new shoots frozen. With a slap, it struck the side of the greenwood.
Immediately afterward,