"Alas."
After Fang Linglong arrived before Li Jianning, there was no longer any room for tact between the two sides. A flicker of regret flashed through Guan Tong's eyes. Letting out a mournful sigh, he attacked without hesitation, wielding the power of heaven and earth against Fang Linglong's domain.
The moment he struck, he went all out.
As the Great Ascension cultivators clashed, centered around the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave, the lands throughout Azure Cloud Prefecture were disturbed by heaven and earth itself. Mountains shook and the ground trembled. Amid their terror, cultivators across the prefecture hurriedly rallied disaster relief under official orders. Sensing that calamity had arrived, they could only lament that when immortals fought, mortals suffered.
Among the cultivators heading toward the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave were Zhuo Linlin, a Li Family retainer, and Venerable Puci, Azure Cloud Prefecture's newly advanced Body Integration cultivator, along with their group.
"This is bad—they've already fought themselves into a true rage!"
Venerable Puci's expression changed. Though they had yet to reach the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave, he could already sense that this collision was fiercer and more decisive than the ones before. The very fortune of heaven and earth in Azure Cloud Prefecture had clearly been affected, with spiritual energy converging toward the Thunder-Fire Demon Cave.
The powerful cultivators of Azure Cloud Prefecture could not help growing tense. In the past, Azure Cloud Prefecture had found it difficult even to produce a Void Refinement cultivator. Even now, people like Zhuo Linlin and Venerable Puci had only found the Great Dao amid these troubled times with the Li Family's aid. They had merely glimpsed the Dao; fighting even veteran Body Integration cultivators was arduous for them, let alone facing Great Ascension cultivators.
"With just us, if we reach the legendary domain of a Great Ascension