The former had secretly compared the golden sword's power with his own when he last saw it strike.
Though his body was formidable, no weaker than ordinary Spirit Weapon Battle Armor, it still fell short of the golden sword.
Even if it was stronger in some respects, the difference was limited.
At the very least, he could not destroy the golden sword in one blow as the young man had.
The latter's thoughts were simpler.
If she fought with her life on the line, she had a fifty-percent chance of destroying both the golden sword and the Landscape Scroll hanging high in the sky, though she would be gravely wounded. The other fifty percent was that she would die at the hands of the scroll.
The other fifty percent ended with her dying at the scroll's hands.
"Brat, you've gone too—!"
The figure within the Landscape Scroll overhead clearly had not expected such a turn.
He had bound his opponent here only to teach him a lesson and show him the punishment for defying the Xuantian Tower's orders.
But instead of waiting obediently to be punished after the demon was killed, the young man had turned the tables and snatched away his prey.
So furious that he laughed, the illusory figure in the Landscape Scroll could not decide whether to praise the young man's courage or call him a witless greenhorn.
He had no intention of wasting words on him. He would show the young man what he could do.
His mind made up, he thrust his hand forward and swung the object he held with all his might.
In an instant, the entire sky above Pearl-Curtain Blessed Land trembled violently.
Clearly, even for a mighty cultivator of the Eastern Endless Sea, drawing on his true body's power across such