Song Shuhang was slightly distracted.
He was delighted, not simply because he had beaten Winter Melon Sage Lord... but because he had broken Senior Copper Trigram's curse of black trigrams!
The divination Senior Copper Trigram had performed for him predicted that he would thrash Winter Melon Sage Lord on the night of the full moon, pin him to the ground and beat him senseless, and ultimately become famous throughout the Cultivation World.
—But everyone knew that Copper Trigram Immortal Master's divinations had to be read in reverse.
And now... he really had taken Winter Melon Sage Lord head-on, just as Senior Copper Trigram's divination had described.
Although he hadn't pinned Winter Melon Sage Lord to the ground and thrashed him, he had won, cleanly and decisively.
The battle was over. Winter Melon Sage Lord would have no further chance to thrash him.
With that, Copper Trigram Immortal Master's black trigram had disproved itself.
The curse of "Copper Trigram's best possible fortune," which the fellow daoists of the Nine Provinces Number One Group avoided like the plague, had ended today.
From today onward, call me the terminator of Senior Copper Trigram's black trigrams—Song Awesome as Hell Shuhang! Song Shuhang thought.
While he was thinking, his intuition suddenly warned him of danger.
At the same time, he heard Su Clan's Sixteen, Shi, Xiao Cai, and the reporters in the distance shout, "Watch out!"
Song Shuhang shifted his gaze... and saw several fragments of the Steel Fortress hurtling toward him.
Every one of those Steel Fortress fragments possessed Eighth-Grade Profound Sage-level strength.
After being blasted apart by the Heaven-Burning Flame Saber, they had shot out with terrifying speed and force, enough to pierce defenses around the sixth to seventh grades.
If Song Shuhang let his guard down and took a direct hit from