Above the ninth layer of the Ninefold Thunder Sea, as Jiang Chen's intervention stirred fresh turmoil within Azure Firmament Mountain, the clash between No-Self and Thunder-Taming True Lord had reached a fever pitch.
"No-Self, are you still going to struggle?"
Commanding the thunder of heaven and earth, Thunder-Taming True Lord wielded ten thousand bolts and took the form of an ancient thunder god. Every movement drew a response from the world.
Compared with him, No-Self True Lord was in far worse shape.
After a string of fierce battles, his true body had been wounded. Normally, that would have been no great problem for a cultivator of his level, but he had already been in terrible condition. Once injured, he could no longer suppress the decay within him.
He held on now entirely through the Void Illusory World Mirror, a Half-Immortal Artifact. Yet against Thunder-Taming True Lord's immortal thunder, even that gave him little advantage.
With a sigh, No-Self watched Thunder-Taming True Lord bear down on him and had no choice but to draw on the mirror's power again.
A flash of mirror-light inverted illusion and reality, and the countless bolts Thunder-Taming True Lord had unleashed dissolved into nothingness.
But that was not the end. As No-Self turned the mirror over, the vanished bolts reappeared. Their target had changed: they locked straight onto Thunder-Taming True Lord.
At the sight, Thunder-Taming True Lord was delighted rather than alarmed.
"No-Self, you've run out of tricks. The Void Illusory World Mirror may have wondrous powers, but how much of them can you still bring to bear?"
Spreading his true body wide, Thunder-Taming True Lord showed no fear of the onrushing bolts. Instead of dodging, he flew to meet them.
Rumble! Bathed in lightning, his aura climbed ever higher. The bolts did not hurt him;