Zhou Heng, on the other hand, had been able to contend head-on with the Dragon Emperor while still a Creation King. Now that he had risen to a seven-phase Bright Immortal, his power had increased by an unknown number of times. Though the Five Elements Rune had not improved quite so dramatically, its might had still increased more than tenfold!
One had underestimated his opponent and used only a tiny fraction of her power, while the other had grown vastly stronger and gone all out. It would have been unreasonable if Wang Youyue had still managed to take that attack easily!
Yet a Star King was still a Star King. Even with her power suppressed to the level of ninety-nine divine manifestations, she remained incomparably terrifying. Aside from not using the Black Sword, Zhou Heng had truly gone all out with that strike just now. He had not expected that he would fail even to make her spit blood!
His battle with Wang Youyue was, in truth, an experiment. He wanted to see whether he might have a chance to kill the Dragon Emperor in a single strike!
The result left him deeply dissatisfied.
He was merely dissatisfied, but Wang Youyue was so shocked that her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets!
What was going on?!
Not only had her strike failed to suppress Zhou Heng, it had instead shaken her so badly that she had nearly coughed up blood. This was far too outrageous!
That had been the power of thirty manifestations!
In this shattered Immortal World, spiritual energy had plummeted in quality and sacred medicines were scarce. Even those blessed with exceptional talent could only barely reach the nine-phase Bright Immortal level before breaking through to the Star Realm and flying straight to the Bright World! Ten-phase