Yu Ci stood at the center of heaven and had some faint sense of the changes within the Demon Tide and the "abyss" of the Nine Palaces Demon Domain. More than that, however, it was the surging tribulation of his inner demons, the oppression in his heart, that gave him a rough grasp of their rise and fall. As for anything deeper, he could not distinguish it clearly for the moment.
Besides, Canluona now occupied the vast majority of his attention.
This enormous bug, which had stirred up enough trouble along the fringes of the True Realm, began an unstoppable charge forward.
Divine abilities derived solely from the Profound Gate system could not inflict any fatal damage on it. They merely swept away portions of the murky mist that had gradually thickened around it.
The problem was that, within the Realm of Truth, these mist-like regions of law scattered fragments of law whenever they brushed through the Demon Tide. More often than not, the phantoms of Demonic Beasts such as Fire Plague and Blade Ant would emerge, rolling and writhing grotesquely before vanishing from sight.
How could Yu Ci possibly fail to understand Canluona's scheme by now?
Yet even though he understood it perfectly, it was difficult for him to respond correctly.
The pressure Canluona exerted on him was simply too great.
A bloody scar stretched across the sky.
The bloody radiance Canluona had slashed out cleaved through the Profound Gate system, which was composed of heavenly domains from every direction, with the force of splitting bamboo. As many as seven heavenly domains of varying sizes lay in its path, layer upon layer of void barriers, yet none could noticeably slow it. It drove straight into the center of heaven and collided with the moon of his mind-image.
"Buzz!"
Amid