Another Dust Obscures the Heavenly Secrets, the Great Demon Emerges, Calling the North Abyss

Back at the core of the lightning eruption.

Boundless heavenly might shrouded Zhao Cheng, with thunder rolling and obscuring the sun and moon.

Every major aperture in Zhao Cheng's body resonated, standing firm like a mountain guarding the earth. His True Essence surged through his meridians like iron chains linked together, and a Vajra Divine Light manifested on his skin, repelling the thunderous power.

Even when large arcs of lightning breached the defensive line of the Heavenly Star Constellation True Technique, they were completely blocked by his Vajra-like physique, leaving only faint greyish-black marks on his fair skin—nothing more.

The only drawback was that under this immense heavenly pressure, Zhao Cheng could no longer stabilize his flight, and he too was blasted away, plummeting toward the ground below.

This delay caused him to lose his lock on the old Daoist.

Zhao Cheng landed steadily and looked up at the firmament, using the Heavens Star Apertures to perform star divination.

The old Daoist had suffered severe depletion and fled with grave injuries; with his strength greatly diminished, he should be unable to shield the heavenly secrets.

This was the moment to track his whereabouts.

Infinite stellar principles flowed through his heart, and Zhao Cheng meticulously unraveled the threads of fate, soon finding that single strand of causality.

He followed the trail, deducing and pursuing it, when suddenly an obscure and hazy power intervened, forcibly snapping that thread of causality!

Zhao Cheng's eyes snapped open, filled with shock and fury, "Someone is helping him conceal the heavenly secrets!?"

He tried to trace the source of the hand that had severed the thread, but it had vanished without a trace.

He scanned his surroundings; only the armies of the Zhao State and the Qin State stood in confrontation, both gazing at him with