A most unexpected helper

Before Ao Guang had finished speaking, a surge of spiritual pressure made the air around her grow heavy in an instant, as though the weight of an entire sky were sinking down onto her shoulder armor.

It was water pressure acting on the very laws of physics!

Though the water swords filling the sky had yet to touch her, the total volume of water formed by thousands of swords within the same airspace was already equivalent to a lake compressed into a tiny space. Driven by spiritual energy, the water's weight compounded layer upon layer, forming an invisible high-pressure zone that squeezed her from every direction at once.

A faint hum rose from the surface of her silver armor, and the runes along the edges of its plates began flickering under the pressure.

More troublesome still was the pressure on the spiritual level. Within Yang Wenqing's five-element cycle, the water swords' coverage continued expanding outward. Each sword rotated through a slight arc, drawing the surrounding spiritual field of heaven and earth into the same distortion.

Ao Guang felt her connection to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth weakening layer by layer. The water spirit aura that had once curled tamely around her now seemed cut off by an invisible wall.

The two pressures combined like an enormous invisible palm slamming down from the sky, intent on driving her into the rocks below.

Ao Guang did not hesitate for an instant. Silver-white light burst from within her, and her figure rapidly transformed within its radiance. Silver-white scales emerged across her skin, and in an instant, she became a white dragon. Her tail then lashed through the air, blasting the water spirit aura around her out to either side.

Yi Rushuang's Mysterious Moon Wheel flew up beside her shoulder. Silver-gray Barrier