The words fell.
Deep within the endless black demon clouds, an imposing figure in black robes—his true body—rose slowly from the lowest level of the Ninth-Tier Demon Altar, treading a thousand layers of demonic waves and ten thousand fathoms of baleful light!
The strength of the Peak Inner Vajra Realm. The Altar Master himself!
He had come to fight head-on!
Above the Third-Tier Earth-Locking Baleful Demon Formation, Cheng Heng stood amid the remains of demons strewn across the sky. Fine dust covered his white robe, yet he remained as upright as a pine and as clear as a mirror.
He raised his eyes toward the monstrous shadow slowly approaching through the endless darkness. A cold light blazed in his gaze, without the slightest hint of retreat.
The three layers of the formation were broken. The earth-vein shackles were shattered. The Demon Altar's main force was destroyed.
Next—
He would face the Demon Altar's strongest!
At the Vajra-Force Early Stage, he would strike down a foe at the Peak Inner Vajra Realm!
Within the fathomless abyss, black waves surged like a rushing sea of blood.
Most of the blood-colored formation lines of the Third-Tier Earth-Locking Baleful Demon Formation had shattered in the battle just fought. The remaining lines flickered fitfully, while the earth vein's baleful energy, no longer sustained by the thirty-six deathsworn, drifted in disarray throughout the cavern.
Cheng Heng stood still among the wrecked rock strata, stone dust clinging to his white robe. His Inner Vajra Realm power circulated steadily, and his vital energy rested deep as an abyss, solid as a mountain.
The Delusion-Slaying Illuminating Seal hovered at his brow. His clear Dao heart pierced the roiling layers of Demonic Aura and locked firmly onto the black-robed figure riding the waves up from the abyss's depths.
This was