True Lord Xingyan sensed disaster looming and tried to tear through space to escape, but the Thunder Domain sealed him in. The Thunder Whip followed him like his shadow and lashed his Star Compass, shattering it completely. His soul suffered damage as well, and he collapsed, utterly spent.
True Lord Youhun was the craftiest of them all. Seeing things turn dire, he had already scattered into countless ghostly shadows, but Li Yunjing opened his mouth and inhaled. A terrifying devouring force arose within the Chaos Thunder Domain, sucking those shadows and all the surrounding demonic energy into the Myriad Demon Tower to be refined, leaving only a desperate scream.
In the blink of an eye, of the five great True Lords, four were wounded and one was dead!
"How could this happen?"
Only True Lord Tianyin remained barely steady on his feet. Gravely wounded, his Magical Treasure damaged, he stared at the approaching Li Yunjing with a deathly pale face and despair in his eyes.
"Now, can we have a proper talk?"
Li Yunjing dispersed the Thunder Whip, and the Chaos Thunder Domain slowly contracted, but his overbearing, world-defying pressure became even more suffocating.
He looked calmly at True Lord Tianyin. "Who orchestrated this attempt to kill me?"
True Lord Tianyin's lips trembled. Before that absolute gulf in strength and the threat of death, alliance missions and sect prestige became pale, powerless things.
"It-it was True Lord Qingwei who took the lead," he rasped. "He brought several grotto-heavens together-we were merely following orders-"
"Qingwei..."
"It seems the lesson I gave him last time wasn't painful enough."
A cold gleam flashed through Li Yunjing's eyes. It really was him!
"I'll spare your lives for today."
He glanced at the bedraggled survivors, particularly the damaged Seven Treasures Exquisite Pagoda, and said coldly,