Snatching Food from a Tiger's Mouth

The Three-Step Venerable's enraged strike was terrifying beyond measure!

Chu Ming had been prepared.

The instant the sphere of light swallowed the origin qi, he had already begun to retreat.

Now, facing that hammer blow from afar, a ruthless gleam flashed through his eyes. Rather than retreat, he advanced, slamming his hands together before his chest.

The domain field of [Chaos Order Realm] unfolded once more, but this time it did not extend ten zhang. Instead, it contracted until it barely covered his own body.

Within the domain field, the weaving of rules was completed in an instant. "Impact force from the front, weakened by forty percent; personal defense, increased threefold; spatial resilience, temporarily enhanced."

This was the limit of rule adjustment he could currently achieve within the environment of the Xuanxiao Great Domain.

The next instant, the phantom of the giant hammer smashed viciously into the domain field.

There was no sound.

Because every sound had been annihilated by the terrifying collision of energies.

Chu Ming only felt an indescribably immense force crash into him. The domain field twisted and warped violently, while the order runes across its surface flashed madly, flickering between brightness and darkness. Sweetness flooded his throat as a mouthful of blood surged upward, only to be forcibly swallowed back down.

The domain field did not shatter—the forty-percent reduction in force and the increased defense had played a crucial role.

But the remaining sixty percent of the impact still struck Chu Ming solidly.

Crack—

A faint sound of bones fracturing came from within his body.

Chu Ming's face turned pale, and he was sent flying backward like a kite with its string cut, carving a trail thousands of li long through the void. He smashed through more than a dozen meteors along the way before barely