Exorcising Demons and Defending the Dao: The Mystic Gate's Duty

At that moment.

Liu Dongqing's rolling voice fell like heavenly thunder, his body and soul joined with his Divine Embryo, as though the words themselves carried divinity.

Without the slightest hesitation, Liu Dongqing once more drove his Dao Lord Domain Heaven and Earth into Hechu's with a crushing impact!

Once! Twice! Three times!

He used the corner where their two domains already overlapped as an opening and slammed deeper into Hechu's domain.

As though he were hewing through mountain rock!

With each violent crash.

The already surging sea of white-hot light suddenly swelled, expanding the reach of its radiance!

For.

As the two domains overlapped.

Their collision, the spontaneous unfolding of their Divine Ability Fruits, and their ceaseless assaults were no longer confined to the edges where their domains had once touched and ground against each other.

The overlapping expanse of their domains had become part of the battlefield too.

Everywhere the two met, the overlapping heavens where Liu Dongqing's domain sought to erase and drive out the power of myriad Daos and arts struggled and resisted by instinct.

At every instant.

Vast reserves of Daoist power were instinctively drawn from the still-intact reaches of Hechu's domain and unleashed with ferocious force at this corner!

But.

Even before this, Hechu's domain had failed to stop Liu Dongqing from overlapping one corner of it.

Now.

With that corner as an opening, how could it stop Liu Dongqing's domain from crashing into it again and again with ever greater force?

Within a few short breaths.

The surging sea of light seemed to turn into rolling waves.

It poured relentlessly into Hechu's domain, and each surge marked another portion of that domain seized by Liu Dongqing's.

But.

Several breaths later.

This smooth advance of excavation, seizure, and encroachment seemed to come to an