Crack!
With a thunderclap resounding across the heavens, a streak of dark-golden lightning tore through the black clouds. Like a twisted, winding monstrous serpent, it struck downward.
The lightning crashed against the transparent barrier.
The barrier began to flicker violently, gray runes lighting up one after another as its radiance surged.
Several breaths later, the lightning's force gradually waned, finally dispersing into wisps of electric light.
Yet the barrier remained as steadfast as before, runes flowing across it.
"Gu Huang, you do have some skill. You actually know the Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts of my Divine Blood Sect, but that still cannot break my Myriad Bones Paying Homage Formation. It seems that you escaped Yu Bi's grasp because you were proficient in escape techniques, not because you were truly all that strong!" Madam Jade Bone's voice emerged from within the barrier, carrying a hint of pride and mockery.
"Is that so?"
Song Wen's tone was indifferent as dense blood mist suddenly billowed around him.
The blood mist surged upward like a cluster of scarlet flames.
Song Wen's cultivation aura at the Integrated Body Peak Stage began to soar, as though he were about to break through.
His hands formed another thunder art.
In an instant, the black clouds above, which had gradually been calming, churned violently once more. Countless dark-golden bolts darted and gathered within them, forming a lightning serpent as thick as a man's waist. It roiled and swam through the dark clouds, yet did not descend.
Then, the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword abruptly appeared in Song Wen's hand.
As spiritual power poured into it, the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword lit up with jet-black sword radiance.
The sword radiance flickered and stretched, as if even the surrounding void were twisting along with it.
At the same time,