Disaster Descends, Each at Opposite Ends (Part 2)

At Shadow Ghost's summons, Little Five hurried back, barely making it in time to join them before the great collapse.

Given their cultivation, setting aside everything else, the stability of their souls alone placed them among the very best in the world. Coupled with the various divine abilities derived from that, they immediately steadied the situation.

Kou Chu, You Rui, and the others, struggling bitterly within, first felt a cold, crystalline sharpness sweep past them, cleaving apart the frontal edge of the Six Desires Turbid Stream. Then came muffled thunder, shaking their mind palaces. Lightning flashed wildly through the great void, and that vast, upright force was precisely the nemesis of the Six Desires Turbid Stream. The pressure instantly lightened.

The tension in Kou Chu's heart eased, but You Rui was thinking of far more.

That master's identity had now been more or less unearthed, yet the strength at his side remained unfathomable. The force holding the line was clearly wielded by two different experts. Who knew where they had sprung from?

Strange—why had they not used this just now?

While she was both puzzled and relieved, Shadow Ghost, who had arrived in such imposing fashion to save the day, truly could not laugh.

His original plan had been to use his and Little Five's strength to first halt the momentum of the Six Desires Turbid Stream and deal with the state in which the two sides were stuck together. There had been no need to sink too deeply into it. They could even take advantage of the situation to let the Heavenly Demon Hall on this side collapse, thoroughly extinguishing Yu Ci's hopes.

But the severity of the situation far exceeded his expectations.

Shadow Ghost's vision far surpassed Kou Chu's and You Rui's. Through the connection between both sides