Chapter 281: Contest for Victory
The mass of black mist rolled down and spread soundlessly across the ground. From within emerged a cultivator dressed in luxurious dark robes. His gaze was shadowed, his long black hair draped behind him, and his entire body overflowed with a bleak, oppressive aura.
Zhang Yu had originally thought the newcomer was one of Daoist Wan Ming's people, but judging by his attire and appearance, this man was very likely one of the fellow cultivators from the Hunyuan cultivator outpost Li Mo had mentioned to him.
Yet this man's relationship with Li Mo was far from harmonious. Their views often clashed. Now that outpost had already been occupied by the Frost Continent people, while Li Mo and the others were nowhere to be found. For this man to suddenly appear here naturally brought many things to mind.
The cultivator sized him up, then suddenly asked, "Are you Zhang Xuanzheng?"
Zhang Yu said, "I am."
The cultivator gave him a long, deep look and announced his name. "Ding Ming."
As his words fell, wisps of black vapor drifted from his robes, steaming upward and pouring forth fiercely. At last, they intertwined into a great bird twenty zhang tall, its entire body black as ink. When it spread its wings, waves of wind-like shrieking rang across the wilderness.
This was his visualization diagram, "Tainted Dawn." Its cry could throw the mind into chaos and disrupt one's vital aura, while the murky smoke it exuded could foul Heartlight Seal and magical power.
Zhang Yu's eyes flickered slightly as he attempted to discern his opponent.
Yet this time, he discovered that the Foresight Seal was actually unable to reveal the other man's next move.
Either the man had used some divine ability to block or interfere with the Foresight