A Fateful Encounter

One thing puzzled Zhang Shuai. These attackers were well-trained and coordinated seamlessly, clearly belonging to some powerful organization. Yet their immortal robes bore no insignia. They were definitely not forces under any of the nineteen known Human Saints. Most likely, they were a group of rogue cultivators like Carefree Valley.

Though he had his doubts, since they had struck first, Zhang Shuai would not hold back. These Half-Saints were perfect top-tier cultivation materials. He could not waste them.

At this moment, the sixteen black-clad Half-Saints had already been terrified by Zhang Shuai's overwhelming might. All fighting spirit had vanished. They each unleashed escape arts, intending to flee in every direction.

"Trying to run? Too late!" Zhang Shuai snorted coldly, raising his hand and unleashing the Cosmic Realm-Binding Pearl!

The pearl rose into the air, radiating hazy starlight. An invisible spatial barrier instantly formed, sealing off dozens of miles around them!

The Half-Saints attempting to escape slammed into the spatial barrier and were all rebounded. They began frantically attacking the barrier formed by the Cosmic Realm-Binding Pearl.

Zhang Shuai showed them no more mercy. Countless phantoms of mountains and rivers emerged in his palm as he raised his hand toward one of the Half-Saints.

"Collect!"

An invisible beam descended upon the Half-Saint. The powerful suction force made him struggle in terror, but like an insect caught in a spiderweb, his body rapidly shrank as he was about to be drawn into Zhang Shuai's palm...

At that critical moment—

Crack!!!!!!

A heaven-shattering boom, as though the entire world had been torn apart, erupted without warning!

Zhang Shuai's entire body shook violently as he looked up in horror!

Above his head, the space barrier constructed by the Cosmic Realm-Binding Pearl—one that should have been incomparably sturdy—shattered inch by inch like a broken glazed