If this person truly was a Nascent Soul True Lord, then with his strength, crushing the Wan Family's three treasure ships would have been as easy as turning over his hand. He would not have wasted so much time.
The reason he had done this was likely deliberate.
At this moment, dragon scales from the Azure Dragon Hand had already crawled across the entire Water Ripple Barrier. The Golden Cores of the water spirit root cultivators aboard the Myriad Confluence Ship were trembling violently, and the speed at which the spiritual power within them was being dragged away was growing faster and faster.
Meanwhile, the White Tiger Hand on the other side seemed to have finished gathering its strength. The crimson thunderfire in its palm grew increasingly violent. With only a downward grab, before it had even fully descended, the rain around the three ships below had already been evaporated into white mist that filled the sky. Even the bronze beast head on the Myriad Treasures Ship had been scorched red, as though it were about to melt.
This time, Wan Niang could no longer remain calm. She hurriedly ordered, "Myriad Treasures, raise the Gilded Shield! Myriad Ghosts, gather yin energy! People of Myriad Confluence, reinforce the water patterns!"
Before her words had faded, the White Tiger Hand was already closing in, suddenly clawing downward.
There was no earth-shattering boom, only a suffocating wave of scorching heat spreading outward.
The crimson thunderfire turned into five sharp thunderfire claws and slammed directly into the combined defense raised by the three ships.
The Gilded Shield summoned by the Myriad Treasures Ship began to smoke black with a "sizzle" the instant it touched the thunderfire. The shield surface, reinforced by the law of metal, melted at a visible rate like wax scorched by