Though both were reincarnations of the Heavenly Emperor, even without descending in person, the mastermind's remotely cast divine ability brought Xiang Yuan a pressure more than a hundred times greater than Ji Wuzhou's.
The indescribable pressure made one feel as if standing before heaven and earth itself. Like the glow of a firefly in rotting grass compared against the bright moon of Heaven's Heart, fear rose unbidden, leaving one wishing only to bow in submission. Even breathing became difficult.
Bai Wuyan narrowed her eyes slightly, recognizing at once the true culprit behind the backlash from her divination. Her red lips parted as she gave a cold snort.
"Coward who hides his head and shows his tail!"
The No Calamity Sword in her hand suddenly bloomed with a blinding, icy radiance, and a brilliant sword-rainbow shot skyward.
This sword strike was pure to the utmost. A fine white line suddenly appeared between heaven and earth, every detail distinct. It seemed slow, yet was faster than lightning, piercing the Cloud-Hidden Grand Array and shattering Cloud-Hidden Peak's mountain-protecting formation from within.
A teeth-grating sound of shattering rang through the clouds. The entire Cloud-Hidden Peak shook violently as countless boulders thundered down. Great cracks spread across the mountainside, while pavilions and towers collapsed amid the quake.
Bronze lamp pillars burst apart one after another, and the mist dispersed. Gone was the inscrutable haze of flowing clouds like water. At the heart of the mountain-protecting formation, the enormous bronze cauldron exploded outright.
With one blow, Bai Wuyan crippled the Cloud-Hidden Grand Array and nearly cleaved Cloud-Hidden Peak in two. Yet it was not over. The sword light's remaining force continued onward, and wherever it pointed, the clouds automatically parted into a vacuum passage stretching a thousand li.
Above the vault of heaven, the sun-and-moon eyes