The old man cast a grim look at Luo Yi's true body, a viciousness peculiar to desperate outlaws surfacing in his eyes.
"Fellow Daoist, even if you possess the strength of a fifth-tier Tribulation-Crossing Pseudo-Immortal..."
"I rose from a mere mortal to become the Sect Master of the Hundred-Knowledge Pavilion. I didn't get here by sitting around eating for free."
"Today, we'll see which of us is more ruthless!"
As his words fell, the instant the Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation's giant hand closed in on his true body, his aged frame dissolved into specks of starlight, returning to this world.
Meanwhile, hearing the tremendous commotion, a crowd of Hundred-Knowledge Pavilion disciples came flocking over, hoping to discover what had happened here to cause such an uproar.
But the instant they saw their Sect Master merge completely with this world, they seemed to recall something terrifying.
Instinctively, they started moving, trying to flee toward the world beyond the continent.
Before they could get very far, however, they suddenly discovered a tragic truth.
Born and raised in these Dao-Merging Grounds, they could no longer escape its control.
The next moment, as the Sect Master of the Hundred-Knowledge Pavilion pushed his cultivation to its limit...
The figures scrambling to escape seemed to suffer a devastating blow.
One after another, they plummeted from the sky and crashed to the ground, spewing mouthfuls of crimson blood.
Even so, they did not forget to stagger back to their feet, then kneel toward where the old man had stood and beg for mercy.
"Sect Master, spare us! We don't want to die!"
The cries and pleas had barely begun rising across the scene when those figures kneeling on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy...
Dissolved into specks of starlight just as the Sect Master of the Hundred-Knowledge Pavilion