The Ant Shakes the Tree, Dao Heart Collapses, North Abyss Seeks Disciple, Asks of Martial Might?

Jing Shao kept his head lowered as he forged the gears, suppressing the excitement in his heart. From the corner of his eye, he watched Zhao Cheng draw closer step by step, until he was finally within three paces.

At this distance, success was guaranteed!

"Die!"

He sprang up abruptly. The True Essence he had been gathering for so long surged forth, erupting like mountains collapsing and earth splitting apart as it crashed toward Zhao Cheng's back.

At the same time, an immense, righteous aura suddenly appeared high in the heavens, accompanied by a thunderous voice of the Dao.

"Where is Yun Miao!?"

Zhao Cheng raised his head to look at the sky. His aura reacted, and the True Essence throughout his body stirred for an instant.

At that very moment, Jing Shao struck at Zhao Cheng's heart from behind. Yet his furious roar of "Die!" was completely drowned out by the thunderous voice from the sky.

At that moment, Zhao Cheng was the only thing in Jing Shao's mind. Everything around him had nothing to do with him; the voice of the Dao fell on deaf ears. He wanted only to kill with a single strike.

But just as his palm was about to land on Zhao Cheng's back, the aura instinctively stirring around Zhao Cheng's body seemed like ten thousand mountains crumbling and the sea overturning, instantly annihilating the full eruption of True Essence Jing Shao had accumulated for so long.

Pfft!

The flames burning in Jing Shao's eyes were extinguished in an instant, replaced by horror and disbelief.

The crushing devastation he had imagined did not appear. On the contrary, the "vast True Essence" he had been certain would kill Zhao Cheng in one blow vanished in an instant like a drop of water falling into the