Which was stronger: the frontal punch of an eight-star Dou Zong, or the defensive Dou Technique of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan?
Xiao Yan answered with his actions, throwing a completely unadorned punch straight at the enormous black bell sheltering Feng Qing'er.
Clang!
A heavy bell toll rang out from between Xiao Yan and the black bell!
The Demon Phoenix Bell buzzed and trembled beneath Xiao Yan's punch, dark black radiance flickering continuously across its surface.
The invisible brute force erupting between Xiao Yan and the Demon Phoenix Bell sent all the rubble and dust in the area flying.
Even with such a terrifying display of force, the Demon Phoenix Bell remained suspended in midair.
It had not shattered!
This famed defensive Dou Technique of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, which required pure Heaven Demon Phoenix bloodline to activate, had withstood Xiao Yan's assault.
At the instant of impact, a bell cry like rolling thunder suddenly rang out. Vast sound waves, almost tangible, frantically spread from the surface of the giant bell. The violent ripples even churned the dark clouds overhead into a roiling mass.
Sound-wave recoil! This was another formidable aspect of this Dou Technique. It could not only defend, but counterattack as well! Moreover, it was an unusually strange sound-wave attack that targeted the soul.
Seeing the Demon Phoenix Bell's reliable defensive power, Venerable Lei's inner anxiety eased somewhat. Even he needed two or three years to produce a single Lightning Storage Pearl, so naturally he did not want to hand one over to Venerable Wind for nothing.
What he did not know was that the true situation differed somewhat from what he saw.
An ordinary person might indeed have been affected by the sound-wave recoil of the Demon Phoenix Bell. However, aside from his strength as an