Just thinking of it made a nameless fury rise within Li Jiuyuan.
"They've been dead for so many years, yet they still left behind such means to scheme against me!
Break for me!"
Li Jiuyuan's voice grew louder and louder. By the end, currents of energy surged all around him, as though blazing flames were burning—except these flames were formed from rippling pale-blue power.
Before his words had even faded, Li Jiuyuan abruptly spread his hand. A crisp crack rang out between heaven and earth.
In an instant.
The ground below shook violently. From the fissures in the earth, vast swathes of earthen-yellow power surged skyward, rushing straight toward Li Jiuyuan.
"This is... Earth Qi?
This fellow can actually directly control Earth Qi?
But what is he trying to do now? Could it be that he intends to use this Earth Qi to withstand the Immortal Body Puppet's attack?"
Su Shi'er blinked, his face full of confusion.
Before he could figure out what was going on.
He saw that, across the land below as far as the eye could see, the vitality of the earth was draining away at an astonishing speed.
The group had fought one battle after another here earlier, inflicting enormous damage upon the land and leaving it riddled with devastation.
Yet no matter how severe the destruction, given time, this place would eventually return to its former state.
But Li Jiuyuan's current actions were clearly a direct plundering of this place's Earth Qi.
Once Earth Qi was lost, the land might overturn at best; at worst, the entire star could turn into a place of dead silence.
Ordinary cultivators naturally lacked such abilities.
Yet even among those who possessed such power, few would act in such a manner. After all, it was an act that harmed