Gu Yuan's palm strike appeared overwhelmingly mighty, but he had not used his full strength. Though anger burned in his heart, he still intended to test him—to verify whether Hun Feng's words were true and gauge "Gu Yang's" true strength.
The vast Dou Qi gathered in his palm was restrained to the level of an ordinary Six-Star Dou Sheng.
Even so, the Majestic Pressure carried by the palm wind descended like Mount Tai crushing down, slamming fiercely toward Gu Yang!
Gu Yang's face turned pale as paper. The Dou Qi of his late Five-Star Dou Sheng cultivation surged frantically without restraint, and a dark barrier of light spread around him. He concentrated all his power before him and forcefully met that fatal palm strike.
"Bang—!"
A deafening explosion erupted through the ancestral hall. Violent energy shockwaves swept in every direction like raging tides. The jade tables within the hall were instantly reduced to dust, the ancient runes carved into the beams and pillars dimmed, spiderweb cracks split across the gleaming golden tiles, and even the luminous pearls floating in the air trembled violently as their light flickered.
Gu Yang let out a muffled groan. His body seemed to have been struck by a heavy hammer, and his feet plowed two deep furrows through the golden tiles. He was forced back several dozen meters before barely steadying himself.
The Dou Qi barrier he had formed was covered in cracks, like glazed glass on the verge of shattering. A streak of black blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and his chest heaved violently. Clearly, he had already suffered internal injuries from that strike.
Still, the foundation of a late Five-Star Dou Sheng was truly formidable. Even against a probing strike from a Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng, he had actually managed