The instant Lian Baizheng heard An Jing's words, he froze, and even his berserk power slowed for a moment.
Then, in the next instant, Spirit Fiend energy several times more violent than before surged explosively from within him. Great Dao battle patterns like leaf veins abruptly emerged across Lian Baizheng's face.
At this moment, the eyes of this True Disciple of Lianzhen Dao burned with a blood-red light called fury, blazing as fiercely as a newborn star!
Grinding his teeth, he spoke one word at a time: "Don't be too arrogant, Heavenly Fate!"
"Let me show you my power!"
As for Lian Baizheng's furious counterattack, Hui Tianyu—the True Disciple of the Miaofa Divine Sect who had arrived with An Jing but had not joined the group assault—described it thus afterward.
"In that instant, Lian Baizheng manifested his True Spirit's true form: a colossal blood-colored tree. The divine blade in his hand, God-Invading Life-Extinguishing, was the root of that blood-colored giant tree."
"In an instant, it took root in the Earth Veins of the Zhaolin Realm, in the torrent of Spirit Fiend energy produced by Taiyang Zhuzhou's self-destruction, madly drawing in power."
"The soil, land, rocks, and air of the Zhaolin Realm all became Lian Baizheng's nourishment. The Divine Wood True Spirit grew larger and larger, before transforming into the most enormous 'divine blade—God-Invading Life-Extinguishing.'"
"The very existence of that divine blade was like a blood-red pillar of heaven. It split the sky canopy and could cleave apart the sun and moon. Carrying that inconceivable, terrifying might, it slashed down at An Jing."
"When its blade light erupted, Taixu shattered. Countless blood-red rays spread through the void, and all things—even I, at the time—felt a thread of blood vitality within us being stirred and shaken. This was the foundation Lianzhen Dao