Nine forms converge, Corona Walker!

Faced with this overwhelmingly powerful strike, Meng Chuan trembled in body and mind, gripped by immense terror.

Before the water blade descended, he wisely chose to withdraw.

This was the fourth martial killing move of the Heavenly Abyss Method—Water-Cleaving Heaven-Sundering Slash!

Meng Chuan had heard that Zhao Linyuan had used this move to wound Mountain Whisper's divided soul during the battle at the Taihang Mountains. Its power was tremendous.

Having experienced it himself, he knew that claim was no exaggeration.

Even unleashed by nothing more than Senior Zhao's imagery projection, this move carried far greater force than a great demon like Mo Jue.

And Meng Chuan hardly needed a brain to know that he could not counter Water-Cleaving Heaven-Sundering Slash with his old trick of merging his body into the water qi.

Offering his neck to the water blade would be asking to die...

How could he counter it?

Meng Chuan muttered, "I can use Five Qi Towards Origin, my five elements dharma body, and the Dharma wheel's traits to seize the water qi and weaken Senior Zhao's blade. Then my body can withstand the rest. With another breakthrough in Horizontal Training, it shouldn't be too difficult!"

"Whew..."

After withdrawing from the imagery world, Meng Chuan sat cross-legged in midair, surrounded by drifting wisps of unmeltable water.

He pondered the divine art's killing move he had just learned, Myriad Rivers Return to Sea, drawing on the memories of Lan Zhan stored in his mind.

Lan Zhan had also primarily cultivated the water Grand Dao and was an ultimate ninth-tier life-form.

Previously, the gulf between them had been too vast for Meng Chuan to comprehend anything. Now, with his water arts supporting him, he could understand a little.

Searching through his memory palace, he watched everything Lan Zhan had done within