Chapter 1256: Breaking the Walls and Shattering the Spirit
The Creation refiners of the Incident Suppression Office had been guarding above Yang Capital all along. Naturally, they had noticed these flying vessels, which looked ordinary on the surface yet behaved most strangely.
They bore the duty of guarding the city region. No matter what these flying vessels themselves were or what they carried within, so long as they involved the enemy, they had to step forward and intercept them.
One of the refiners waved his hand, and a tide-like surge of blue spiritual light descended. Yet halfway down, it was blocked by an equally surging radiance of dharma power. Behind that radiance, a cultivator stood in midair with his hands tucked behind his back, staring coldly at them.
After these days of battle, the Upper Layer forces on King Xi's side had also discovered certain characteristics of these Incident Suppression Office Creation refiners.
These people excelled at close-range surprise attacks. Though their long-range spiritual transformations were formidable as well, overall, they held no particular advantage against cultivators' divine abilities and Dao arts. The battlefield was still some distance from the qi barrier outside Yang Capital, so they had no need to fear these people.
The Incident Suppression Office's Creation refiners would not simply remain within the city region. Seeing their long-range attack blocked, they reacted swiftly. Three of them immediately descended in streaks of light.
Those on King Xi's side were familiar with this as well. These seven Creation refiners generally formed groups of two or three, coordinating with one another. The cultivator sneered, dharma power surging from his body as he met them head-on without yielding. At his sides, fellow cultivators also appeared one after another, charging toward the Creation refiners.
Just as the two sides began to clash,