The great sun crashed down with a thunderous roar.
The Six Paths World soared into the sky and became six rings of world rules. Each world the sun passed through gave it another burst of speed and another layer of rule power. After passing through all six, it became an invisible beam of light, its might soaring.
Boom!
The sun slammed into Butterfly Immortal.
She extended a finger again, replacing the will of heaven with her own and forcibly enchanting matter and energy into changing their composition for a moment.
But this time, she only dispersed most of the sun.
The rest struck her, leaving several charred marks across her body and driving her backward. For the first time, she had fallen behind in a clash of divine sense.
This starry sky...
Butterfly Immortal's heart sank.
This starry sky was far too hostile to her!
Everything targeted her, suppressed her, and drained her power at a terrifying rate. Every move cost her more than ten times the power it would have outside.
Her opponent, meanwhile, stood within his own sea of soul and consciousness, with several times her divine-sense power!
And that was after she had spent countless years laying meticulous plans within his soul and used a secret art of her clan to merge herself with his inner-demon heavenly tribulation. Without all that, the gap would have been wider still.
"How novel."
"I have several times the power and the advantage of fighting on my soul's home ground, yet I still cannot kill my opponent in a single strike."
Jiang Ding gave a self-mocking smile.
"A disgrace."
"An utter disgrace."
"Thank you, fellow Daoist. I will never forget today's disgrace. I will engrave it on my heart forever."
After advancing to Void Refining, a Dao Child of an upper-realm