At this moment.
The last trace of hesitation vanished completely from the clan elder's clouded eyes. A sharp gleam surged forth, like a blade leaving its sheath!
"Then do not blame this old man... for being discourteous!
"The dignity of the forbidden ground shall not be defiled!"
The instant his words fell—
BOOM!
The white-bearded clan elder awoke like an ancient beast roused from slumber!
The ancient runes on his gray scale armor lit up abruptly, and a vast, matchless demonic power erupted!
An immense volume of seawater was violently pushed aside and compressed, forming a terrifying pressure almost tangible in form.
Like raging currents from ten million undersea volcanoes erupting at once, carrying a force that could grind space itself to dust, it bore down without reserve upon Sha Minghong, less than ten zhang away!
Under such pressure, even a great demon at the Nascent Soul Late Stage would suffer shattered bones and torn tendons, forced to crawl and tremble!
Yet!
Standing at the very heart of that storm of pressure, only the hems of Sha Minghong's magnificent black-and-gold robe were whipped backward by the demonic-power tempest.
He himself stood like a mystic ice reef that had not melted for ten thousand years. He merely furrowed his brow ever so slightly, his body utterly unmoving!
The vast wave of demonic power, enough to crush mountains, struck within a zhang of him—only to seem as though it had crashed into an invisible abyssal vortex.
Not even the faintest ripple could truly reach him!
At this sight.
Deep within the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan elder's murky eyes, a flash of genuine shock inevitably passed.
This Highness before him... was absolutely not as simple as his apparent cultivation suggested!
But the dignity of the forbidden ground stood above all else!
ROAR!