The Great Sun Boundary-Fixing Formation blazed. A colossal great sun manifestation lit up the galaxy.
Within its dazzling light, the deep-space fleet spread across ten thousand li of void surrounded a mass of desiccated flesh. Nearly a hundred thousand warships and fighters unfurled the chaotic runes of their battle formation, producing streams of solar divine fire imbued with Great Sun Sword-Dao Order Force and solar flare power to refine it relentlessly.
Sizzle...
Sizzle...
Under this terrifying siege, even the flesh of someone plainly above Spirit Transformation began to give way. Its faint ruddy sheen vanished in an instant. Traces of charring appeared along its edges, and wisps of smoke rose.
"Void Refining!"
"The flesh of a Void Refining cultivator!"
Jiang Ding stared fixedly at the mass of flesh. He was certain now, with no doubts left.
This Void Refining mighty figure from Blood Lake Bone Mountain had come to this lesser world at some unknown point in the past and spent all that time searching for immortal arts. Yet he seemed to fear something and had never dared make a real move, not until the Dao soldiers from the upper realm arrived.
Within the solar fire of order, more and more smoke rose from the desiccated flesh. Its power was rapidly dissipating.
"Alas!"
"Young friend, you truly are a peerless prodigy, far stronger than I was at Spirit Transformation..."
A hoarse sigh emerged from the burning solar fire of order. "And you have had one fortuitous encounter after another. How enviable."
"Unfortunately, a lower-realm cultivator remains a lower-realm cultivator."
"An ant remains an ant."
The desiccated flesh suddenly burned faster. More smoke billowed out as the Blood Dao Void Refining flesh turned to ash, leaving a thin shell of char.
At that point, no matter how the solar fire of