Just as Daoist Hidden Bell's Daoist arts had built up enough momentum and were poised to erupt, the outcome of this battle was about to reach its critical moment.
The cultivators of Origin Xia and Celestial Xia alike sensed the turn in events and, without prior agreement, fixed their eyes upon the field.
They each had their own judgment. Daoist Zhengqing wore a treasure robe, which might protect him this time, but Daoist Hidden Bell likewise carried the aura of a treasure artifact. Even if he could evade this strike, once the momentum of the Daoist arts continued to accumulate and stack, there would be no possibility of avoiding it later.
At that point, as long as their side employed the means that restrained the treasure robe, victory would be sealed.
After several more breaths, Daoist Hidden Bell's Daoist arts had accumulated to near fullness. He delayed no longer, extending a hand and pushing outward. Streams of flowing light surged and pressed toward Daoist Zhengqing like a spilling Milky Way.
Under the watchful eyes of those observing from both sides, Daoist Zhengqing indeed brought out no move to break it this time. Instead, he directly activated his treasure robe to block the attack, resisting the flowing light outside.
At the same time, taking advantage of his opponent's outpouring, as the Daoist arts inevitably ebbed downward again, he drove the Daoist arts upon himself into motion and launched a thunderous counterattack!
He had already grown familiar with Daoist Hidden Bell's Daoist arts. His strike came precisely at the instant the latter's Daoist arts fell back. In the process, he casually dissolved all manner of qi movements born of yin-yang transformations, driving straight toward where his opponent stood!
Setting everything else aside, both the timing of this counterattack and the transformations within