This pressure was even greater than facing the combined assault of Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three.
Because Dragon One and the others wielded power, while Ning Yi wielded rules.
The suppression of power could be resisted with power, but the suppression of rules could only be broken with laws.
Ye Lin's Sword Dao Law spun madly, silver-white sword light forming an airtight defensive barrier around him.
The attacks of the nine spheres continually slammed into the barrier. Every strike made it shudder violently, yet it never shattered.
Ning Yi frowned.
His Ninefold Reincarnation was enough to trap experts of the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm; even those at the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm would be briefly suppressed.
Yet Ye Lin, a cultivator at the First Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm, had not fallen within his forbidden technique.
"Your Sword Dao Law has already touched upon the level of origin."
Ning Yi's voice came from the Boundary Sea, carrying a trace of undisguised shock.
"At your age and cultivation, it is rare indeed to have comprehended the sword to such a degree."
"Even in my era, you would have been a powerhouse—an absolute monster."
Though Ning Yi's words reached his ears, Ye Lin did not respond.
All his focus was devoted to sustaining the defensive barrier.
The nine spheres' attacks grew denser and more violent.
The blazing flames spewed by the fire sphere could burn all things to ash; the chill released by the ice sphere could freeze space itself; the lightning unleashed by the thunderclap sphere could tear everything apart...
More and more cracks spread across the defensive barrier.
Blood seeped from the corner of Ye Lin's mouth.
Yet he showed not the slightest panic.
His gaze pierced through the dense barrage, through the formation of nine spheres, and settled on