An aura as vast and boundless as the sea erupted from the void.
Chen Xiao was like a small boat swaying amid wind and rain, liable to be swallowed at any moment.
By now, only twenty percent of Chen Xiao's immortal essence remained. Most of the things he relied upon had already been spent. Faced with that terrifying, majestic aura, a trace of Despair involuntarily surfaced in his heart.
Chen Xiao possessed the Thunder Virtue Heavenly Book, and his entire mind was closely linked to it, rendering pressure useless against him. Yet that almost tangible aura still made him feel intensely uncomfortable.
At this moment, Chen Xiao could barely restrain himself from immediately merging with the heavenly tribulation and leaving.
But he did not leave at once. He understood that the Netherworld Ghost Emperor's true body had descended. If he did not even have the courage to face him and immediately fled by merging with the heavenly tribulation, then the Netherworld Ghost Emperor would leave an eternal shadow in his heart—an indelible barrier that would arise in his future cultivation.
So now, Chen Xiao could only face him. He absolutely could not leave like this.
Chen Xiao slowly straightened, raised his head, and looked toward the shadow descending from the void above.
"If I were at my peak, then with Azure Cloud's fourfold amplification and the power of the Starry Sky Battle Banner, I would be confident of escaping his hands unscathed without merging with the heavenly tribulation."
Sensing that vast, surging aura, Chen Xiao quietly weighed things in his heart.
By now, Chen Xiao had already formed an estimate of his own strength.
He was equivalent to a late-stage Mixed Origin Supreme Immortal, an expert of the Mixed Origin Grotto-Heaven realm. Or, if he used every method at his