The Unyielding Dragon Soul · Avatar Shakes the Mountains

The pink Star of Annihilation and the blue-gray Earth-Rending Rhino Horn collided violently beneath countless horrified gazes!

In that instant, the center of the arena seemed to become a chaotic graveyard of light. There was no earth-shattering explosion, only two utterly opposing forces frantically corroding, devouring, and annihilating each other.

The power of disintegration contained within the Star of Annihilation was tyrannical beyond measure, like billions of invisible files stripping away, crushing, and reducing to nothingness the dense Soul Power condensed within the Earth-Rending Rhino Horn. Wherever the pink light passed, the blue-gray glow of Soul Power melted and retreated like morning mist before the scorching sun.

Yet the Earth-Rending Rhino Horn represented the purest strength and resilience. The vast Soul Power of a rank seventy-four Soul Sage flowed endlessly toward the point of collision like an inexhaustible river, attempting to triumph through sheer quantity and grind away, overwhelm, and destroy that eerie pink light.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—rip!"

The teeth-grating sounds of corrosion and shattering Soul Power intertwined. The front third of the Earth-Rending Rhino Avatar's savage horn visibly dimmed and cracked, its Soul Power structure suffering devastating damage. Meanwhile, that destructive pink star rapidly shrank, its radiance fading sharply.

This was a brutal war of attrition between elemental restraint and accumulated Soul Power!

Three short breaths felt like an eternity.

At last, after expending more than ninety percent of its energy, the scant remaining pink starlight let out a faint cry and completely vanished. The Earth-Rending Rhino's horn, meanwhile, had lost all its luster across its front third, covered in spiderweb-like cracks. Fragments of Soul Power even peeled away and dissipated, leaving it in a miserable state.

"He blocked it!!" A relieved yet pained cry came from the Thick Earth Sect's side. Zhao Mang's Martial Soul Avatar had been